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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve Van Dulken | | Comment | Death announcements from the "Gentleman's Magazine", a journal which is available on Google Books. Any deaths in India, or of deaths elsewhere where there was a mentioned link with India, are included. In a few lengthy obituaries the contents have been summarised by using square brackets. |
| | Surname | Deshon | | | Rank/ occupation | Lieut.-col. |  | Unit | 17th Foot | | | Death date | 31 July 1844 | | | Place of death | Ahmednugger  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Edition | Dec 1844 | | | Page number | 649 | | | Detail | At Ahmednugger, East Indies, of spasmodic cholera, aged 40, Lieut.-Colonel Deshon, 17th foot. He was the eldest son of Colonel P. Deshon, formerly of the 43d and late of the 85th Light Infantry. He entered the Service in 1817 as Ensign in the 85th regiment, obtained his lieutenancy in 1825, and an unattached company in 1826, these several steps by purchase; and was appointed to the 20th regiment, which corps, then stationed in India, he immediately joined, and continued serving with it until his return to England in 1837, at which period he was promoted to a majority by purchase. Major Deshon then exchanegd into the 17th regiment, and joined it in Bombay, where, on arrival, he found it comprising part of the ""Army of the Indus" |
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