HOLLINGS (Mary Alnright) Ed.
The Life of Sir Colin C. Scott-Moncrieff, KCSI, KCMG, RE &c.)
1st Ed., xii+374pp., portrait frontis., 21 illus. John Murray.
1917
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Biography based on reminiscences & letters edited by Scott-moncrieff's niece. He was ed. at Addiscombe, entered Bengal Engineers 1856 & retired as a Colonel in 1883. Served in the Mutiny in the campaign in Oudh &c., with Irrigation Dept in NW Province, Chief Engineer in Burma, then PWD in Egypt & Sudan 1883-92 (CSI for famine relief work in Madras 1878-79). Cloth stained/worn but sound & scarce. See illustration on our website.
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