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 Kabul British Cemetery Name Index
| Date transcribed | 2012-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Penny Tipper | | Comment | Index for photographs of graves in Kabul British Cemetery sent to FIBIS by Liz Chater. |
| | Photo Number |  View image |  | Surname | Nugent | | | First names | Charles | | | Rank | Lieutenant Royal Engineers | | | Date of death | 23 Dec 1879 | | | Place | Sherpur  | | | Inscription | Lieutenant Charles Nugent Royal Engineers. Aged 29. Died 23 December1879 during the Battle of Sherpur. Lt Nugent was born on 19 February at Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest son of General CI Nugent, Commander of British Forces in New Zealand. Educated in St Andrews, Scotland and Dublin, Ireland he entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1869, passing out 21st in priority. He joined the Royal Engineers in Augsut 1871. After serving for three years in Englanad he went to India in September 1874 where he joined the Bengal Sappers and Miners. In 1879, as part of No 7 Company Bengal Sappers and Miners, he joined the Kurram Valley Field Force for operations in Afghanistan. He was present at the Battle of Charasib on 6 October 1879 and throughout the occupation of Kabul, where he was engaged in the hazardous duty of removing and destroying large quantities of powder lying loose about the Basla Hissar. During the occupation of the Sherpur Cantonment Lt Nugent was employed on improving the citadel's defences, in the construction of which he and his brother officers won golden opinions for the zeal and ability they displayed. On 23rd December his company was directed to join General Macpherson's force to aid in the destruction of the line of forts held by the enemy to the south of hte cantonment. In performing this duty he entered, in company with Captain Dundas VC RE, a fort immediately under the Siah Sang, and, before emerging from it, was engulfed by two violent mine explosions took place. On search being made immediately afterwards, his lifeless remains, together with those of Captain Dundas, were discovered by his comrades. Death had apparently been instantaneous, the bodies having been thrown by the xplosions completely across the enclosure of the fort, the premature nature of the explosion being attributed to the too rapid consumption of a home-made quick-match. Lieutenant Nugent was buried with Captain Dundas on the 25th December, in the Sherpur cemetery. In a Division Order issued by Sir Frederick Robets on the day of hte funeral the following words occur: ""Both Captain Dundas and Lieutenant Nugent had gained the esteem of all by their manly, modest, and courteous bearing. By their death the Corps of Royal Engineers has lost two most valuable officers, and the Kabul Field Force two galland and much lamented comrades."" Note: The gravestone below is simply initialled AJR and appears to refer to an officer killed whilst participating Pollock's punitive attack on Kabul inSeptember 1842 (the British response to the ignominious Retreat from Kabul which took place in January 1842.) |
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