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Go to record South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta
 South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 2

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Date transcribed2010-08-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentRecords transcribed to date are from 1800 onwards. These are not in date sequence and so this Part 2 is the first part of subsequent records. Further records will be transcribed and included in Part 3, etc. until all are completed up to 1851.

Surname  Wood    
Forename(s)  Thomas    
Rank or Title  Colonel    
Regiment  Engineers    
Year of Death  1834    
Inscription  Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Wood, Colonel of Engineers, and Companion of the most Honorable order of the Bath, who after fifty years service in the Bengal Army, died at Calcutta, aged 68 years and 7 months. On the 22nd day of January, A.D. 1834, among distinguished comrades, he stood eminent for talents of a high order, cultivated by science and matured by experience, gained in a brilliant career of active service and of distinguished professional employment, domestic and foreign, in war and in peace, through Hindostan and the Deccan, in Assam and in Ava, in the Surveyor General's Department and in the campaigns of Lord Lake, who selected him to be his Engineer in Chief with the grand army. As a member of society, he was remarkable for cheerful wit regulated by goodness of temper and heart; as a friend his good deeds passed ordinary measure, and death disclosed liberalities which living modesty had concealed. In his domestic relations that he was greatly loving and loved, a sorrowing and numerous family seek to bear pious witness by this insufficient and frail memolrial.    
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