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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Campbell | | | First names | Arthur Wellington | | | Rank / occupation | Captain |  | Unit | HM 14th Foot | | | Death date | Dec 1845 ? | | | Place of death | Ferozeshah ?  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | May 1846 | | | Page number | 538 | | | Detail | Officers slain in India. Of wounds received at Ferozeshah. Capt. Arthur Wellington Campbell, of H.M. 14th Foot, and aide-de-camp to Major-Gen. Sir Harry Smith. He was the 2d son of His Excellency Lt.-Gen. Sir John Campbell, Governor of Ceylon, and brother of the Lieut.-Col. Campbell of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and the Hon. Mrs Edmund Phipps. He was appointed Captain in the 14th Foot, Jan. 28, 1842; and was on sick-leave from Ceylon, when his military ardour induced him to proceed to the army of the Sutlej as a volunteer. When at the side of Gen. Sir Harry Smith, he was struck by a cannon ball at the commencement of the action on the 21st. |
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