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- George Cotter was a Colonel in the Royal Madras Artillery and served in the Indian campaign. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath. Some details of his career:
Lieutenant - 1832
Captain - 1842
Major - 1842
Lt. Colonel - 1858
Colonel - 1861
Retired full pension
He served in the Indian Mutiny Campaign in Bengal from June 1857 to September 1858. He was ordered to Allahabad but was detained in Benares in consequence of the mutiny at that station from July to September. He was employed in a command in the Palamov district in November and December. He joined the Jounpore Field Force and was present of the taking of Nusrutpore and Chanda, actions of Umeepore and Sultanpore, also the attack on the fort of Dowrara. He commanded the Madras Artillery at the siege of Lucknow. Afterwards, he was present at the relief of Azimghur, the taking of Jugdespore and several minor actions in command of the Artillery.
He was thanked by the Governor General of India. He was five times mentioned in dispatches and received the C.B. Medal with clasp. He, probably, received the C.B. (The Companion of the Order of the Bath) in about 1861. It is not mentioned in the Army list for 1861 but is in the edition for 1862. His Uncle Colonel George Sackville (1783-1869), probably his namesake, of the 69th Regiment fought in the Peninsular War and in the Battle of Waterloo.
George Sackville Cotters Obituary in the London Illustrated News of August 3, 1878, read:
Colonel George Sackville, C.B., Royal (late Madras) Artillery, on June 25, in his
seventieth year. He was the son of the Reverend James Laurence Cotter, LL.D.,
T.C.D., Vicar of Buttevant, County Cork, and he was descended from Sir James
Lombard Cotter, First Baronet of Rockforest in the County of Cork, Ireland. He
received his decoration for services in India in 1857.
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1808 - 1878 (70 years)
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