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Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon by J. Penry Lewis, C.M.G.
Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | Transcribed by | Alan Edmonds and Merran Ainslie |
| Surname | Austen | | First names | Charles John | | Date of death | 07 Oct 1852 | | Place | Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee. | | Inscription | Sacred to the memory of His Excellency C.J. Austen, Esq., Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, Rear Admiral of the Red and Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Naval Forces on the East India and China Station, died off Prome, the 7th October,1852, while in command of the Naval Expedition on the river Irrawady against the Burmese Forces, aged 73 years. | | Remarks | See image for further biographical detail and author's note. | | First page | View image | | Second page | View image |
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