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| 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 | Forster | | | First names | Thomas Watkin | | | Rank/ occupation | Colonel |  | Unit | 24th Foot | | | Death date | 12 Mar 1842 | | | Place of death | Bath  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Edition | Apr 1842 | | | Page number | 452 | | | Detail | At Bath, Col. Thomas Watkin Forster, of Holt, co. Wilts. He was appointed Ensign 24th Foot 1793, Lieut. 1795, Capt. 1802, Major 1810, Lieut.-Col. by brevet 1819, Colonel 1837, and exchanged to the half-pay of the 24th Foot. He acted as Major of brigade at the capture of the Cqpe of Good Hope in 1806, and was afterwards Aide-de-Camp; and, for a short period, Military Secretary to General, now Sir Henry Grey, K.C.B. He was senior officer on board the ""Astell"" Indiaman, when that ship and two others were, for some hours, engaged with two French frigates and a corvette in July, 1810. |
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