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 South African Commercial Advertiser (1826-1840)
| Date transcribed | 2009-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Sue McKay - Marianne Mansfield | | Comment | Sue McKay has kindly authorized us to publish her transcriptions of Family History-related data from the Announcements in the South African Commercial Advertiser. This is because they include very many references to personnel in the service of The East India Company en route to or from India or on furlough in S. Africa, which offered a more temperate climate. Also included are many officers and soldiers of the British Army regiments who may well have served in India shortly before or after serving in South Africa. |
| | Publication Date | 13 November 1839 | | | Event Date | 10 November 1839 | | | First Name(s) | A. E. | | | Surname | Byam | | | Rank or Occupation | Captain of the Madras Artillery | | | Full Entry | Wednesday 13 November 1839:DEATH: At Rondebosch on the night of the 10th November 1839, Captain A.E. BYAM of the Madras Artillery. This Officer, deeply regretted by his Widow and Friends, served in the Madras Army upwards of 17 years. He was on service during the Burmese, Coory and Goomsur wars. In Burmah he served as an Artillery Officer; on his return to the coast he was appointed to the Horse Artillery. Afterwards he was appointed Private Secretary to the Resident at Hydrabad, and for a short period had charge of the Residency. He then made a Captain Commandant; and for several years commanded a Russalat of Horse. In the Coory and Goomsur wars he served as a Staff and Cavalry Officer, and when he left India for the Cape of Good Hope, on account of extreme ill-health, he was Military Secretary and Auditor of Accounts in His Highness the Nizam�s Army, with the official rank of Major. During his whole career in India he has been beloved by his brother Officers, and valued and esteemed by all under whom he served; and no one bid a fairer promise of rising to distinction, when Almighty God pleased to remove him from this world. | | | Reference ( National Archives - Kew) | CO53/5 |
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