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 South African Commercial Advertiser (1826-1840)
| Date transcribed | 2009-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Sue McKay - Marianne Mansfield | | Comment | Sue McKay has kindly authorized us to publish her transcriptions of Family History-related data from the Announcements in the South African Commercial Advertiser. This is because they include very many references to personnel in the service of The East India Company en route to or from India or on furlough in S. Africa, which offered a more temperate climate. Also included are many officers and soldiers of the British Army regiments who may well have served in India shortly before or after serving in South Africa. |
| | Publication Date | July 1832 | | | Event Date | June 1832 | | | First Name(s) | Richard | | | Surname | Lamont | | | Rank or Occupation | Lieutant late of the Royals Regiment | | | Event | Death | | | Full Entry | Saturday 14 July 1832: DIED on the 29th ult at Port Elizabeth, aged 42, Lieutenant Richard LAMONT, late of the Royals, which Regiment he entered in July 1809, when they were encamped on South Sea Common destined for the Walcheren Expedition; he was present during all the actions and skirmishes upon that occasion; he afterwards served in the West Indies, with the Second Battalion of that Regiment, from thence went to North America, and was present during all the late American War, from its commencement in 1812 until its termination, embracing all the general actions, in one of which (Lund’s Lane) in Canada he particularly distinguished himself by taking with a single company of his Regiment, three times the number of his men, prisoners, for which he received the warmest thanks from the Commander in Chief, General DRUMMOND, on the Field of Action. Mr. LAMONT was twice treacherously taken prisoner by the Americans, from whom however he made his escape each time in a manner truly miraculous. This event has unfortunately impeded his promotion in a Service to which he always was sincerely devoted, and left a widow with a young family to lament his loss.
Cape Town 12th July 1832
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