Bonus, Joseph, 1836-1926, army officer and railway engineer in India

1855 joined Bombay Engineers, 2nd lieutenant; 1855-1857 military training at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, Kent; 1857 2nd company, Bombay Sappers and Miners; 1857-1859 served during the Indian Mutiny; 1857 assistant engineer; 1858 1st lieutenant, acting assistant quartermaster, 2nd Brigade, Central India Field Force; c 1860 commenced railway engineering work; 1862-1870 deputy consulting engineer for railways, Scinde Department of Works; 1864 brevet major; 1869 captain; 1870-1873 executive engineer, 1st grade, officiating superintending engineer, Kotree District, Indus Valley Railway; 1872 major; 1873-1877 superintending engineer, 3rd grade, Kotree District, Indus Valley Railway; 1874 brevet lieutenant-colonel; 1877-1878 superintending engineer, 2nd grade, Kotree District, Indus Valley Railway; 1878 lieutenant-colonel; 1878-1880 served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in command of the Queen's Own Sappers and Miners; 1879 colonel; 1879-1880 survey work between Jamrud and Jalalabad, later between Thull and Peiwar Kotal; 1880 superintending engineer, 1st grade, engineer-in-chief, Punjab Northern State Railway; 1881-1886 joint secretary for railways and consulting engineer to the Government of Bombay; 1886 major-general and retired; 1886- Justice of the Peace, Middlesex.

Epithet: army officer and railway engineer in India