[4][5] John Bayley's memoirs records that from 1839 he attended schools in Rottingdean, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge.

[14] The Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was deposed in February 1856 and the British East India Company absorbed the province.

[17] He even witnessed a number of executions of mutineers and saw the effects on native regiment officers, who still trusted their men.

[18] The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Campbell who was one of the most experienced officers of the column should have been made brigadier in charge.

[21] Captain Bayley was part of the storming party and during the attack was wounded in the arm, he fought on with his regiment into the city.

[23] Historian John William Kaye wrote a history of the mutiny published in parts from 1864 to 1876 which claimed that the 52nd was hesitant to attack after the explosives blew a hole in the Kashmir Gate.