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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 | Brooke | | | First names | Joseph | | | Rank/ occupation | Lieut.-col. & Sir |  | Unit | British Army | | | Death date | 6 Feb 1841 | | | Place of death | Dublin  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Edition | June 1841 | | | Page number | 656 | | | Detail | [At Rockfield cottage, Artane, co. Dublin, aged 77. Son of Sir Samuel Brooke, Bt. and Margaret, dau. of John Finlay, esq. of Corkagh, co. Dublin. ""He was an ensign in the 100th Foot in 1781, and was promoted to a lieutenancy in the 20th after the affair of Praya. He remained in that regiment twenty-one years, commanding it during the last five as Lieut.-Colonel, and sold out in 1803. He was severely wounded 8th April 1782 in an engagement between the British troops, comanded by Colonel Humbertson, and the forces of Hyder Ali, and slightly at the battle of Paniang, under Colonel Norman M'Leod.""] |
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