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Douglas Scott Niven  OBE –Major  25th Cavalry R. F. Indian Army

5th May1982 -- 12th December 1919.

Of influenza at Quetta while at Staff College and buried there in Military Cemetery.


3356 THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 24, 1904.

www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27679/pages/3356/page.pdf

India Office, - Dated as below, but to rank from 27th August,1902.

The KING has approved of the following Promotions among Officers of the Indian Army, Indian Medical Service, and Indian Subordinate Medical Department, made by the Government of India:—

Second Lieutenants, from the Unattached List, to be Second Lieutenants.

Douglas Scott Niven. Dated 6th January, 1904.


THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 24, 1905.

www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27778/pages/2281/page.pdf

INDIAN ARMY.

Second Lieutenants to be Lieutenants.

Dated 27th November, 1904.

Douglas Scott Niven, 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force)


THE LONDON GAZETTE, 3 NOVEMBER 1911.

www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28547/pages/7959/page.pdf

INDIAN ARMY

Lieutenants to be Captains

Douglas Scott Niven, 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force)


11852 THE LONDON GAZETTE, 16 NOVEMBER, 1917.

www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30384/pages/11852/page.pdf

INDIAN ARMY.

Captains -to be Majors.

•Dated -27th August, 1917

Douglas Scott Niven, 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force).



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