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Alexander Chancellor

Birthdate:
Death: October 04, 1857 (30)
Kasauli, Delhi, India (Killed in action)
Place of Burial: Kasauli, India
Immediate Family:

Son of Alexander Chancellor, Snr and Helen Hamilton Chancellor
Brother of John George Chancellor; Colonel Frederick Hugh Chancellor R.A.; George Chancellor; Reverend James Chancellor, M.A.; Jane Elizabeth Chancellor and 2 others

Military: 75th Foot - 1st Gordon Highlanders
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About Captain Alexander Chancellor

https://www.thepeerage.com/p66957.htm#i669568
Alexander Chancellor gained the rank of Captain in the 75th Regiment.
He fought in the Siege of Delhi.



https://glosters.tripod.com/IM3.htm
75th Foot - 1st Gordon Highlanders

Captain Alexander Chancellor - wounded Delhi, 13th September 1857. Died Kasauli - 4th October 1857
Aged 30. Son of Alexander, of Lanark.
Buried at No.4 Cemetery, Kasauli - "Sacred to the memory of Alexander Chancellor Esqr. late Captain in Her Majesty's 75th Regiment, fourth son of the late Alexander Chancellor Esq. of Shieldhill Lanarkshire. This brave and devoted soldier departed this life at Kussowlee on the fourth day of October 1857. He died from wounds received in action before Delhi, against the Mutineers of India on the 13th Sept. 1857, the night previous to the successful assault by the victorious British Forces. His life was exposed to danger and hardship trial and privation cheerfully endured in a good cause from the 8th June 1857 when the memorable battle of Battle of Badli-ki-Serai was fought and won to the day of his death."


Memorialised on his family's gravestone in Quothquan Cemetery, Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
see Alexander Chancellor, Snr

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Captain Alexander Chancellor's Timeline

1827
April 29, 1827
1857
October 4, 1857
Age 30
Kasauli, Delhi, India
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No.4 Cemetery, Kasauli, India