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Death Announcements 1845-1854
Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| Surname | Battine | | First names | William | | Rank / occupation | Major General | | Unit | Artillery | | Death date | 21 July 1851 | | Place of death | Lahore | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | Date | Nov 1851 | | Page number | 553 | | Detail | At Lahore, aged 63, Major-Gen. William Battine, C.B. commanding the Cis-Jhelum division of the army, who expired from the effects of a severe bilious intermittent fever. This gallant officer belonged to the Artillery, and his roll of active service embraced the transactions in the Doab in 1808; Bundulcund, 1809-10; the siege of Kalingur, 1812; the command of the Foot Artillery at the siege of Kalingur in 1814; taking Nahud and Jeytuck, 1814-15; in Kumaon, 1815-16; Mahratta war, 1817-18; siege and taking of Hattrass, 1819; and siege and capture of Bhurtpore, 1816, for whicvh last he received his brevet of Lieut.-Colonel. |
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