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Bradshaw Yorke Reilly (March 1807 - 5 November 1853) was a military officer in the service of the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...

in the 19th century.

Biography

He was born in

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in 1807. He entered the

East India Company Military Seminary The East India Company Military Seminary was a British military academy at Addiscombe, Surrey, in what is now the London Borough of Croydon. It opened in 1809 and closed in 1861. Its purpose was to train young officers to serve in the East India ...

in 1821 and was commissioned into the

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as an

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in 1823.Vibart, H.M. (1894). Addiscombe: its heroes and men of note. Westminster: Archibald Constable. p. 99 On passing out he, he was selected with a fellow cadet Frederick Bordwine for the engineers, however unable to distinguish between the two who were equals on merit, it was resolved that they draw lots resulting in Reilly going to

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and Bordwine to

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. He was promoted to

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in May 1824 and participated in the

Siege of Bharatpur The siege of Bharatpore was a siege that took place in the Indian princely state of Bharatpur (now part of Rajasthan) between December 1825 and January 1826. British troops under Lord Combermere initially surrounded the state's capital until ...

in the

First Anglo-Burmese War The First Anglo-Burmese War ( my, ပထမ အင်္ဂလိပ်-မြန်မာ စစ်; ; 5 March 1824 – 24 February 1826), also known as the First Burma War, was the first of three wars fought between the British and Burmese ...

. He married Emily Robson on 13 July 1836. He saw action again as a Captain during the Gwalior Campaign in 1843. Reilly was appointed a Commandant of the Corps in April 1843 and was advanced to Major in late 1844. In the

First Anglo-Sikh War The First Anglo-Sikh War was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company in 1845 and 1846 in and around the Ferozepur district of Punjab. It resulted in defeat and partial subjugation of the Sikh empire and cession of ...

he commanded the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Companies at the

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. He was transferred to the Invalid Establishment as a Lieutenant-Colonel in November 1848 and died at

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in 1853.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reilly, Bradhshaw Yorke British East India Company Army officers 1807 births 1853 deaths Alumni of Addiscombe Military Seminary Bengal Engineers officers