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 Death Announcements 1845-1854

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Surname  Massey    
First names  Cromwell    
Rank / occupation  Colonel    
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Death date  8 Sept 1845    
Place of death  Ramsgate    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  Nov 1845    
Page number  546    
Detail  At St Lawrence, Ramsgate, aged 103, Col. Cromwell Massey, late of the Hon. East India Company's Service. He was in the sanguinary battle of Perimbancum, in Mysore, on the 10th Sept. 1780, against the forces of Hyder Ally, when he, with Col. Baillie, Capt. (afterwards Sir David) Baird, and about 200 British soldiers, were taken prisoner, and were exposed to cruel indignities and ill-treatment for three years and nine months, until Hyder Ally's death.     
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