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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Rose | | | First names | John | | | Rank / occupation | Lieut.-General & Sir |  | Unit | Bengal Army | | | Death date | 9 Sept 1852 | | | Place of death | Scotland  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Nov 1852 | | | Page number | 528 | | | Detail | [At Holme, co. Inverrness, aged 73. Born at Holme 23 July 1779, 4th but eldest surviving son of John Rose, esq. of Holme by Jane, dau. of Alexander Cumming, esq. of Logie, co. Moray. Entered the service of the EIC 1795. Numerous battles. Returned to England in 1823. He married in 1811 Lilias, dau. of James Fraser, esq. of Culdethel, co. Inverness. 5 sons & 2 daus., including John Nugent, Bombay CS; James Fraser, Lieut. Madras Army, who died in 1837; and Alexander ""who when attached in 1841 to Shah Soojah's Regiment of Goorkahs, in garrison at the memorable post of Charekar, near Cabul, was cut to pieces after killing four of the enemy with his own hand, while cutting his way through an overwhelming force of the enemy (which succeeded in annihilating the regiment and artillery attached, Eldred Pottinger and Lieutenant Haughton, the Adjutant, both desperately wounded, having most miraculously escaped with their lives)""] |
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