Person | Male Born 1821 Died 1857

Major Walter Robert Prout

War dead, Other war i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in a war, not WW1 or WW2.

Died as a result of serving in the Indian War 1857-8. 56th Bengal Native Infantry. The Dictionary of Indian Biography gives: "Prout, Walter Robert (1821 or 2 - 1857): Major: son of William Prout, MD, FRS; educated at Westminster and at the University and Military Academy, Edinburgh: obtained a cadetship in the 56th NI; Interpreter and Adjutant: distinguished himself at Maharajpur, 1843; his principal services were in the Derajat with the Panjab Irregular Force, now the Panjab Frontier Force, of which he was selected to be the first Brigade Major by the Brigadier Commanding: Major, 1856; a very promising officer: died of sunstroke while on outpost duty at Cawnpur, 1857.