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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 | Raitt | | | First names | George Dalhousie | | | Rank/ occupation | Major |  | Unit | 2nd Royals | | | Death date | 1843 ? | | | Place of death | Mount Abbo  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Edition | Oct 1843 | | | Page number | 446 | | | Detail | Lately. At Mount Abbo, from a coup de soleil, aged 36, Major George Dalhousie Raitt, 2d Royals. He served under Lord Keane, in the march of the Indus, and received two wounds at the siege of Ghuznee: and subsequently was at the siege and capture of Kelat. He was the first European officer who crossed the Indus. His period of service was 20 years, in a regiment in which some member of his family and name have held a commission or commanded the regiment upwards of a century. He was the eldest son of Col. Raitt, formerly of Southampton. |
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