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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 | 21 September 1839 | | | Event Date | 5 September 1839 | | | Surname | Harding | | | Rank or Occupation | Ensign of Cape Mounted Rifles Corps. | | | Event | Death | | | Full Entry | Saturday 21 September 1839:DEATH OF ENSIGN HARDING: Of the Cape Mounted Rifle Corps: On the morning of the 5th instant, Ensign HARDING, who had accompanied Col. SOMERSET to the mouth of the Fish River, was bathing on the beach with Lieuts. McLEAN and FANSHAWE, and Ensign SOMERSET; when venturing too far (the tide running out very strong at the time) he was carried out by the violence of the surf, before it was possible any assistance could be rendered to him. Lieutenant McLEAN nearly shared the same fate, having been thrown on shore by the surf quite insensible. Ensign HARDING joined the army in the month of February 1835; having been appointed a Provisional Ensign in the Cape Mounted Rifle Corps – with which Corps he did his duty during the whole of the active period of the Kafir War. He remained attached to the Corps, until he was appointed Ensign by purchase, in the 75th Regiment, in the early part of the present year. During the period he served with the 75th Regiment his excellent conduct endeared him to all his brother officers, and he was much noticed and esteemed by his Commanding Officer, Lieut-Colonel GRIEVE. In the month of March of this year he was again removed to the Cape Mounted Rifle Corps, where he was received with affection by his old brother officers. By his Commanding Officer, Colonel SOMERSET, he was beloved as a son, and by his family he was cherished as a brother. Few young men ever obtained more justly the regard and respect of all who were acquainted with him. Above all, he was a devour Christian. It has pleased the Almighty to call to himself this lamb of his flock, in the flower and pride of youth and beauty, in the 22nd year of his age. May we all, when called to our last account, be as prepared to meet our awful trial, as was this beloved and truly Christian youth. | | | Reference ( National Archives - Kew) | CO53/5 |
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