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 Death Announcements 1832-1844
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve Van Dulken | | Comment | Death announcements from the "Gentleman's Magazine", a journal which is available on Google Books. Any deaths in India, or of deaths elsewhere where there was a mentioned link with India, are included. In a few lengthy obituaries the contents have been summarised by using square brackets. |
| | Surname | Sparks | | | Rank/ occupation | Lieutenant |  | Unit | Queen's service | | | Death date | 1839 ? | | | Place of death | Scinde  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Edition | June 1839 | | | Page number | 670 | | | Detail | In Scinde, three officers of the Queen's service, Lieuts. Sparks and Nixon, and Dr. Herbert. A jungle had caught fire, and, it being anticipated that the flames would force numbers of wild animals from their coverts, the officers posted themselves in a tree, and, as they supposed, in a secure position with reference to the wind, waiting the escape of deer, &c. when the wind suddenly changing, the trees and jungle surrounding the officers took fire, and they were entirely overwhelmed and destroyed. |
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