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 Death Announcements 1845-1854

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Surname  Campbell    
First names  Arthur Wellington    
Rank / occupation  Captain    
View all other items of "Unit" with value "HM 14th Foot" in "Death Announcements 1845-1854" Unit  HM 14th Foot    
Death date  Dec 1845 ?    
Place of death  Ferozeshah ?    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  May 1846    
Page number  538    
Detail  Officers slain in India. Of wounds received at Ferozeshah. Capt. Arthur Wellington Campbell, of H.M. 14th Foot, and aide-de-camp to Major-Gen. Sir Harry Smith. He was the 2d son of His Excellency Lt.-Gen. Sir John Campbell, Governor of Ceylon, and brother of the Lieut.-Col. Campbell of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and the Hon. Mrs Edmund Phipps. He was appointed Captain in the 14th Foot, Jan. 28, 1842; and was on sick-leave from Ceylon, when his military ardour induced him to proceed to the army of the Sutlej as a volunteer. When at the side of Gen. Sir Harry Smith, he was struck by a cannon ball at the commencement of the action on the 21st.     
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