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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 | Casement | | | First names | William | | | Rank/ occupation | Major General & Second Ordinary Member & Honourable |  | Unit | Bengal Army & Supreme Council of India | | | Death date | 16 Apr 1844 | | | Place of death | Near Calcutta  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Edition | Aug 1844 | | | Page number | 207 | | | Detail | At Cossipore, near Calcutta, the Hon. Major-Gen. Sir William Casement, K.C.B. Second Ordinary Member of the Supreme Council of India. Sir William Casement had passed forty-seven years of uninterrupted service. He was appointed to the Bengal Establishment in 1795. In his earlier years he was actively employed in Lord Lake�s campaigns, as also during the Marquess of Hasting�s administration. He was present in action with his regiment during the storming of Allyghur in 1803, and at the battle of Deeg in 1804. In 1810 he was appointed Deputy-Judge Advocate-General at Cawnpore; was afterwards named Deputy Quartermaster-General, and attached during the Nepaul campaign to the division commanded by General Marley. In 1818 he was appointed Military Secretary to Government, which situation he held for upwards of twenty years, until he was nominated Member of Council. He was appointed Colonel of the 23d Bengal Native Infantry, May 1, 1824, and attained the rank of Major-General, Jan. 10, 1837. In the latter year he was also nominated a Knight Companion of the Bath. Sir William Casement was thoroughly conversant with every detail connected with the army, an able and valuable servant to the Government, and an upright and honourable member of his profession. Though he had filled high offices for forty years, and in times of difficulty and trouble, yet he had the rare felicity of obtaining not only the approbation of the directors, but the confidence of the army, who looked on his promotion as the reward of efficient service and of great military knowledge. He had taken his passage in the Windsor, and was to have returned to England in March last, but the outbreak of the corps ordered to Scinde, having then assumed an alarming prospect, led to his remaining in compliance with the wishes of the Governor General and the Members of the Council. He had been unwell for some time past, and his constitution appeared to be breaking, but he attended Council on the 13th April, coming in from Cossipore, a distance of four miles, where he had taken a house for change of air; that night he was attacked with cholera, but lingered on until 3 o�clock on the morning of the 16th, when he expired. He was buried on the morning of the 17th April, with military honours, the Governor-General, Members of Council, and all the civil and military officers at the Presidency attending the funeral. He has left a widow the daughter of General Sir Sackville Browne. |
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