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          Major William Wilfrid b (–) was an English officer and physician in the Indian Medical Service, Bengal Army....

          One of his most valuable contributions to Kalmyk studies in general and to Central.

        1. One of his most valuable contributions to Kalmyk studies in general and to Central.
        2. Henry William Bellew was born in Death.
        3. Major William Wilfrid b (–) was an English officer and physician in the Indian Medical Service, Bengal Army.
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        5. The author, Henry Walter Bellew, was a surgeon and medical officer in the Indian Army who over the years had undertaken a number of political missions in.
        6. Henry Walter Bellew

          Indian-born British medical officer

          Henry Walter BellewMRCP (30 August 1834 – 26 July 1892) was an Indian-born British medical officer who worked in Afghanistan.

          He wrote several books based on his explorations in the region during the course of his army career and also studied and wrote on the languages and culture of Afghanistan.

          Life

          Bellew was born at Nusserabad in India on 30 August 1834, son of Captain Henry Walter Bellew of the Bengal army, assistant quartermaster-general attached to the Kabul army who was killed at Jalalabad in the disastrous retreat of 1842.

          He joined as a medical student at St. George's Hospital, London in 1852 (where he studied under Caesar Hawkins), and admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1855. He served in the Crimean War during the winter of 1854–5, and on 14 November 1855 he was gazetted assistant-surgeon in the Bengal medical service, becoming surgeon in 1867, and deputy surgeon-general