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**[http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/page4-RoyalArtilleryGunner.html Royal Artillery Gunner] Bombay c 1900
**[http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/page4-LtLeonardGeorgeWatkins.html Leonard George Watkins] Bombay 1886, with previous information on the [http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/index.html Home page]. He was appointed a Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military Academy on 20 September, 1878 Although is seems the Watkins remained in the Royal Artillery for his entire career to c 1914 it was while seconded to the Indian Ordnance Department
*[http://photo-sleuth.blogspot.com/2009/05/artillery-officer-and-crimean-hero-of.html Colonel James William Howard Fitzmayer] , born 1813, with his wife spent nearly six years in India from 1864, first in command of the Artillery at Meerut until January 1866, then at Benares, and in command of an army division at Oude until April 1867, during which time he was promoted to the rank of Major-General. Photo-sleuth,blogspot.com *[http://picasaweb.google.com/paulnsheila/FrancisDownAndIndiaPhotos# Photographs by Francis William Downs “A Bty., 218th Bde., R.F.A.] Calcutta c 1916 (Picasa Web Albums) mentioned in a [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?act=idx Great War Forum] thread for India
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