Lieut. Col. Robert BLACKALL ²

  General Notes:

1871 Anglesea Barracks, Portsea, Hampshire. 1Bt. Major, age 54 with wife Flora age 43, born Ieadabad, India
1891 Census Retired full pay army, widower
Major Blackall served with the 49th Regt. in the first China war (Medal), and was present at the first taking of
Chusan. Served as Brigade Major with the expeditionary force under Brigadier S. Cotton in 1854 against the
Lurruckzai Mohmunds and was present at the destruction of the villages of Shahmoschkhyl, Sardeen, and Dubb
(mentioned in despatches). Served in the 7th Fusiliers in the Indian N.W. frontier war of 1863 with the Eusofzye
Field Force, present at the defence of the Sungahs at the Umbeyla Pass on 15th December, and in the action at
Umbejda and destruction of the village at the foot of the Bonair Pass on i6th December which ended in the com¬
plete rout of the enemy and the submission of the hill tribes on 17th December (Medal with two Clasps).

Robert married Flora NEPEAN (GRIFFITHS), daughter of Charles Widekind NEPEAN and Anne BEECHER, on 20 Feb 1869 in Lahore, Bengal, India.¹ (Flora NEPEAN (GRIFFITHS) was born about 1828 in Ieadabad, India, died on 7 Dec 1886 and was buried in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.)