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 Gawal Mandi Cemetery, Ferozepore
| Date transcribed | 2016-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey, Sandra Seager | | Comment | WANT A PHOTOGRAPH OF ONE OF THESE HEADSTONES?
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| | Image1 | Ferozepore-Gawal-Mandi-0363.jpg | | | Image2 | 0364.jpg | | | Image3 | 0365.jpg |  | Surname | Nicolson | | | First Name | Patrick | | | Rank/ Title | Lt and Bvt Captain | | | Reg/ Occupation | 28 Regt BNI | | | Death date | [21 Dec] | | | Death Year | [1845] | | | Age atdeath | 37y | | | Cemetery | Gawal-Mandi  | | | Location | Ferozepore | | | Presidency | Bengal | | | Inscription | Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant and Brevet Captain Patrick Nicols[on] 28th Regt BNI * * serving the Government [of India] most nobly and honorably [in] Peace in Military and Civil Employ[ment] in [di]fferent parts of India and War * * Camp[aign?] * * **les anno do[mini?] * and in the Affghanistan War * mortally? wounded on the day of victory [rest illegible] | | | T Remarks | data extracted from A List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs etc by Miles Irving ICS 1910 pg 72. Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant and Brevet Captain Patrick Nicolson 28th Regiment B.N.I. who after serving the Government of India most nobly and honorably during Peace in Military and Civil employment in different parts of India; and during War in the campaign against the Coles, Anno Domini 1832 and in the Afghanistan War fell mortally wounded in the day of victory, whilst actively discharging a Soldiers duty (although at the time in Political employment) at the battle of Ferozeshah, against the Sikh army on the 21st December A.D. 1845 Aged 37 years This Tomb is erected to his memory by his Brother Officers and his immediate Friends, as a tribute of their love and admiration for one who uniting the warmest feelings of the heart with a powerful judgement and great strength of mind, has endeared his character in their remembrance. His Christian name was Peter not Patrick |
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