in the 2nd Bengal Native Infantry, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed led to his award of the Victoria Cross: After this action, the European troops, residents and their families, accompanied by loyal Indian troops, evacuated the Residency, and arrived at Sehore on 4 July 1857. Travers returned to the 2nd Native Infantry in 1858. On 8 September 1860 he was appointed commandant of the Central India Horse. On 23 July 1865 he was promoted to major general and in August 1869 was given the command of the Meerut Division. He was promoted to lieutenant general in 1873, and general in 1877 and placed on the supernumerary list in 1881. Travers was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in May 1873. In 1876 he wrote The Evacuation of Indore relating to his actions there during the Mutiny. Travers died at Pallanza, Lake Maggiore, Italy, on 1 April 1884, aged 63. He was originally buried in the Old Cemetery in Pallanza then moved in about 1920 to the New Cemetery, before finally being interred in the Municipal Ossuary in the Cimitero di Pallanza in 1996. His resting place is unmarked. On 19 November 1849 he married Mary Isabella Macintyre in Bengal, India. Mary died at Kilrock, Bridge of Allan in Scotland on 16 June 1933, aged 103. Her brother was General Donald Macintyre VC, while her elder sister married Doctor William Brydon, the sole survivor of the 1842 retreat from Kabul. The medal Travers' medals are in private ownership. References The Register of the Victoria Cross (1981, 1988 and 1997) Ireland's VCs (Dept of Economic Development, 1995) Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999) Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000) British Indian Army generals British East India Company Army officers Graduates of Addiscombe Military Seminary 1820 births 1884 deaths 19th-century Irish people Irish soldiers in the British East India Company Army People from Cork (city) Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross Companions of the Order of the Bath British military personnel of the First Anglo-Afghan War British military personnel of the First Anglo-Sikh War