Robert Rollo Gillespie | |
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Birth name | Hugh Robert Rollo Gillespie |
Other name(s) | Rollo Gillespie |
Born | Comber, County Down, Ireland | 21 January 1766
Died | 31 October 1814 Kalunga, Dehradun, Nepal (present-day Uttarakhand, India) | (aged 48)
Buried | Meerut Cantonment Cemetery, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Years of service | 1783–1814 |
Rank | Major-general |
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Spouse(s) |
Annabella Taylor (m. 1786) |
Relations | Robert Gillespie (father) |
Major-General Sir Hugh Robert Rollo Gillespie KCB (21 January 1766 – 31 October 1814[1]) was an officer in the British Army. The Army's historian Sir John Fortescue called him "The bravest man ever to wear a red coat".