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 Death Announcements 1845-1854

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Surname  Powell    
First names  John    
Rank / occupation  Quartermaster    
View all other items of "Unit" with value "77th Foot" in "Death Announcements 1845-1854" Unit  77th Foot    
Death date  27 Dec 1852    
Place of death  Windsor Castle    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  Feb 1853    
Page number  219    
Detail  At Windsor Castle, aged 84, John Powell, esq. military knight, formerly quartermaster of the 77th Foot. He was nearly twenty years in India, was in the campaigns against Tippoo and Doondiah Waugh, and in that of Wynaad, where he was severely wounded. He served also at Cochin, Colombo, Saddasseer, Seringapatam, Jamalabad, Pangalamcourchy, and Annakenny. Subsequently he was twelve years in the West Indies and four in the Peninsula, and had the war medal with one clasp for Badajoz.    
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