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SIR THOMAS HUNGERFORD HOLDICH, who died on Nov. 2 at the advanced age of nearly eighty-seven, spent most of his active life in the Survey of India, where he was largely engaged on Frontier and trans-Frontier work. His commission in the Royal Engineers dates so far back as 1862. His first war service was with the Bhutan Expedition in 1865, followed by the Abyssinian campaign in 1867 and the second Afghan War in 1878–80. But his survey career will chiefly be remembered by his work on successive boundary demarcation commissions, and probably he served on more of these than any other office. In 1884 he was with the Russo-Afghan Boundary Commission in connexion with which the once famous, though now almost forgotten, Panjdeh incident took place. As superintendent of frontier surveys he was concerned with the Indian frontiers. During this period he was engaged in 1894 on the demarcation of the eastern boundary of Afghanistan, between that country and the frontier tribes. In the following year he was with the Pamir Boundary Commission. Finally, he was appointed chief commissioner for the demarcation of the frontier between Persia and Baluchistan. In 1898 he retired after thirty-six years'service in India.
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C., H. Col. Sir Thomas Holdich, K.C.M.G., K.C.I.E. Nature 124, 847 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124847a0
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