Indian Mutiny Harmony
"Being a good linguist, having picked up all the dialects, able to speak one at one place and another ten miles away, while he was Major, he managed to gather the whole of the treasury at Mynpoorie, 20,000 rupees in all, and sent it into Agra with two loyal Sikhs, marching his men to within ten miles of that city. They quoted a native proverb that "an ill-wind was blowing", and refused to go any further. There was no mutiny; they just disbanded themselves and went home. Being devoted to him, as he rode away they formed up on each side of the road, with tears pouring down their faces, and bade him farewell."
Colonel 1866, Lt General 1881, General 1889 (aged 76!!). He was reputed to have shot a hundred tigers. He returned to England in 1870 and later retired to Watford and Malvern. He died aged 95 on 23 March 1909.
Medals: Gwalior campaign 1843; Second Anglo-Burmese War 1852/3; Indian Mutiny.
Their four sons were:
- Robert Haig Napier Raikes born 2 April 1861, probably in India
- Herbert William Napier Raikes born 1 June 1865 in Cheltenham, England, married in USA
- Reginald Durie Napier Raikes born 28 January 1874
- Cyril Probyn Napier Raikes born 12 November 1875
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