250 REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE. 



Turnbull had no opportunity of distinguishing himself during 

 the great struggle. But his merits were recognised, and he 

 received rapid promotion. In February 1861 he was gazetted 

 Major in the newly-raised 2nd Bengal European Cavalry, in 

 June of next year he was promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 

 and in February 1863 he joined the Bengal Staff Corps as 

 Lieutenant-Colonel. In the following year he was made 

 Superintendent and Agent for Army Clothing in Calcutta, a 

 post which he held until he left India in 1874. In 1876 he 

 was promoted Colonel, in 1879 Major-General, in 1881 Lieute- 

 nant-general and in 1889 General.' " 



Poor Bertie Short, one of India's most brilliant horsemen 

 and who had been settled at Gyeghat in Chupra for some 

 years, had had to give up race riding owing to gout, and he 

 most unfortunately succumbed to that painful complaint early 

 in June ; although he has given to Indian readers a most amusing 

 account of his own racing recollections in " Between the 

 Indian Flags," yet what was written at his death in the 

 7. P. 6r, will be interesting to all who knew the harum scarum 

 original, but who may not have seen the issue of the Gazette in 

 which it was published. 



" The death at the comparatively young age of forty-five 

 removes from the ranks of Indian sportsmen one of its best 

 known members, for the man who rode with a hook was ten 

 years ago one of the most familiar figures at North-West fix- 

 tures. A son of Colonel Short, R. E., one of the truest and brav- 

 est gentlemen that ever wore her Majesty's uniform, William 

 Bertie was born in India and sent home in early youth for educa- 

 tion. After short terms at two or three Preparatory Schools he 

 was sent to Marlborough being a somewhat junior contemporary 

 of several old Marlburians still in India, Mr. G. E. Manisty, Ac- 

 countant General, Mr. J. A. Bourdillon, Board of Revenue, Cap- 

 tain J. Hext C.I.E., Indian Marine, Mr. Robertson Pughe, Bengal 

 Police, Mr. Herbert Spry of Tirhootand Harry Abbott, and others. 



