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 Death Announcements 1845-1854

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Surname  Wilson    
First names  Nathan    
Rank / occupation  Colonel    
View all other items of "Unit" with value "4th Light Dragoons" in "Death Announcements 1845-1854" Unit  4th Light Dragoons    
Death date  3 Aug 1847    
Place of death  London    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  Oct 1847    
Page number  433    
Detail  [At Islington, aged 68. Ensign 1795, 36th Foot, age 16, and joined in India. In 1796 he purchased a Cornetcy in the 19th Light Dragoons. In campaigns to capture Seringapatam and under Wellesley. Wounded at battle of Assaye. Heroic scaling of walls of Vellore in mutiny there. In 1815 ill health compelled him to return to Europe. Died by being knocked down by the shaft of a cabriolet as he left the Senior United Service Club. He was taken to the house of a relative, Mr Semple, jr., surgeon at Islington, where he died. His body was taken to Boulogne to be interred with his relatives]    
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