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 Kabul British Cemetery Name Index
| Date transcribed | 2012-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Penny Tipper | | Comment | Index for photographs of graves in Kabul British Cemetery sent to FIBIS by Liz Chater. |
| | Photo Number |  View image |  | Surname | Hearsey | | | First names | Charles John Rumball | | | Rank | Lieutenant 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers | | | Date of death | 11 Dec 1879 | | | Place | Kabul  | | | Inscription | Died 11 December 1879 during the action to save the guns at Killa Kazi (approximately 5 kms SW of Kabul University). Lt Hearsey was the eldest son of Lt-Gen Sir John Bennett Hearsey KCB and was born in Sialkot, Punjab, on 7 February 1856. He entered the Army in 1875 serving first in Bengal. During the 2nd British-Afghan War he saw action in the Khyber Pass and, latterly, around Kabul. On 11 December 1879 he took part in a brave but ultimately futile cavalry charge when 220 British and Native cavalry attacked 10,000 Afghan tribesmen who were advancing on Kabul. He was shot in the heart. His body, and that of his brother officer Lt Ricardo,was subsequently recovered and buried here with full military honours. ""The cool self-possession with which young Hearsey rode to almost certain death is of itself evidence of the fact that he was not wanting in one at leat of the soldierly qualities which distinguished his gallant father. Testimonial includes a vignette, Lieut C.J.R. Hearsey, 9th (Queen's oyal) Lancers. | | | Remarks | Testimonial is grouped under the general inscription: This memorial is dedicated to all those British officers and soldiers who gave their lives in the Afghan wars of the 19th and 20th century. Renovated by the officers and soldiers of the British Contingent of the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul. February 2002. ""We shall remember them."" |
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