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Gordon was born on 30 March 1887 to
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from 1937 to 1942 and Chief
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303:"Brigadier John de la Hay Gordon"
355:Recipients of the Military Cross
350:British people in colonial India
108:Charles Terence Chichele Plowden
63:Charles Terence Chichele Plowden
228:. His brothers were politician
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232:and Sir Eyre Gordon.
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292:aged 71.
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