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 Death Announcements 1832-1844

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Date transcribed2000-00-00
Transcribed bySteve Van Dulken
CommentDeath 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  Deshon    
Rank/ occupation  Lieut.-col.    
View all other items of "Unit" with value "17th Foot" in "Death Announcements 1832-1844" Unit  17th Foot    
Death date  31 July 1844    
Place of death  Ahmednugger    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
View all other items of "Edition" with value "Dec 1844" in "Death Announcements 1832-1844" Edition  Dec 1844    
View all other items of "Page number" with value "649" in "Death Announcements 1832-1844" Page number  649    
Detail  At Ahmednugger, East Indies, of spasmodic cholera, aged 40, Lieut.-Colonel Deshon, 17th foot. He was the eldest son of Colonel P. Deshon, formerly of the 43d and late of the 85th Light Infantry. He entered the Service in 1817 as Ensign in the 85th regiment, obtained his lieutenancy in 1825, and an unattached company in 1826, these several steps by purchase; and was appointed to the 20th regiment, which corps, then stationed in India, he immediately joined, and continued serving with it until his return to England in 1837, at which period he was promoted to a majority by purchase. Major Deshon then exchanegd into the 17th regiment, and joined it in Bombay, where, on arrival, he found it comprising part of the ""Army of the Indus"    
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