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词条 Bertrand Evelyn Mellish Gurdon
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  1. Life and career

  2. Death

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| name = Bertrand Evelyn Mellish Gurdon
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| image = Lieutenant_B.E.M._Gurdon.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1867|9|2|df=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1949|10|6|1867|9|2|df=y}}
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| birth_place =Simla, Punjab, India
| death_place = Crowborough, Sussex, England
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| allegiance ={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom
| branch = {{army|British India|23px}}
| serviceyears =1886–1918
| rank =Lieutenant-Colonel
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| battles =Chitral Expedition
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}}Lieutenant-Colonel Bertrand Evelyn Mellish Gurdon {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CIE|DSO}} (2 September 1867 - 6 October 1949) was a British soldier[1][2][3] and administrator.[4][5][6] He gained prominence as an officer during the Siege of Chitral.[7][8]

Life and career

Bertrand Evelyn Mellish Gurdon was born on 2 September 1867 at Simla, Punjab, India.[9][10] He was the third son of Major-General Evelyn Pulteney Gurdon.[11][12] He received education and training from Haileybury Imperial Service College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[13] He was commissioned into the British Indian Army on 25 August 1886.[14][15] His first posting was in the Foreign and Political Department of the British Indian Army.[16] In 1892 he was posted as Assistant to the British Agent at Gilgit.[17] As Lieutenant, in 1892, he was posted as Acting Assistant Political Agent in Chitral in the turbulent period following the death of Mehtar Aman ul-Mulk. He was serving in that capacity when the Siege of Chitral unfolded in 1895.[18][19][20]

He played an active role during the conflict,[21][22][23] and was subsequently decorated as Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.[24][25][26] Following the lifting of the siege Gurdon was stationed in Chitral as Assistant Political Officer of the state until late 1902.[27] In 1900 he was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire.[28] In 1903 he was appointed Political Agent of the Gilgit Agency and served there until 1906.[29][30] In 1908 he was entrusted with the post of Political Agent Khyber Agency.[31] His next posting was as Political Agent Rajputana Agency. 1912 saw Gurdon being promoted as Ltieutenant Colonel.[32][33] He later served as Political Agent of the Phulkian States Agency from 1913 to 1916.[34] He was scheduled for another promotion but owing to ill health sought leave and then premature retirement in 1918.[35]

Death

Bertrand Evelyn Mellish Gurdon died a natural death at the age of 82 in Crowborough, Sussex on 6 October 1949.[36][37][38]

References

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