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About Colonel Frederick Robertson Aikman VC
Col. Frederick Robertson Aikman VC (1828-88),
born 6 February 1828; served in the army (4th Bengal Native Infantry); awarded the VC for an action in the Crimea where with a party of a hundred men he routed a a group of 500 armed rebels and was wounded in the face; died without issue, 5 October 1888 and buried in Kensal Green Cemetery;
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On 4 March 1862, Aikman married Louisa Grace Hargreaves at St. Stephen's, Paddington.
At the age of 30, and while a lieutenant in the 4th, Bengal Native Infantry, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 1 March 1858 near Amethi, India, for which he was awarded the VC:
This Officer, Commanding the 3rd Sikh Cavalry on the advanced Picquet, with one hundred of his men, having obtained information, just as the Force marched on the morning of the 1st of March last, of the proximity, three miles off the high road, of a body of 500 Rebel Infantry, 200 Horse, and 2 Guns, under Moosahib All Ctiuckbdar, attacked and utterly routed them, cutting up more than 100 men, capturing two guns, and driving the survivors into, and over, the Goomtee. This feat was performed under every disadvantage of broken ground, and partially under the flanking fire of an adjoining Fort. Lieutenant Aikman received a severe sabre cut in the face in a personal encounter with several of the enemy.
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Colonel Frederick Robertson Aikman VC's Timeline
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February 6, 1828
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Ross, Lanarkshire, Scotland UK
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May 4, 1828
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| 1888 |
October 5, 1888
Age 60
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Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland UK
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Kensal Green Cemetery, England UK
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