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St Johns Church and Cemetery, Calcutta - Mis and Graves [FHT2015]
Date transcribed | 2024-04-24 | Transcribed by | Helen Modern, Sandra Seager | Comment | Index of names. Transcribed from Photographs of Memorial tablets and Headstone Inscriptions at St Johns Church and Cemetery, Calcutta, Bengal
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| Image1 | View image | | Surname | Lawtie | | First names | Peter | | Rank/ Title | Lieutenant | | Regiment/ Occupation | Corps of Engineers Bengal | | Death year | 1815 | | Death day/mon | [Apr] | | Death age | 23y | | Inscription | This monument is erected by Sir David Ochterlony and the officers of the army under his command to the memory of Lieutenant Peter Lawtie of the corps of engineers in the army of Bengal who at the age of twenty-three, at the close of the first campaign of the Nepal war to the successful termination of which, his exertions had eminently contributed, fell a victim to his devotion in the service of his country, beloved, respected and admired obiit anno MDCCCXV [1815]. | | T Remarks | confirmed name Peter Lawtie dodApril 1815, Engineer, killed in action [BL IOR Death Burials Parish N-1-19 pg 460] |
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Transcriptions taken from publications. Photographs of headstones and memorial tablets located at St Johns Church and Cemetery, Calcutta.
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