Capt. Thomas Alexander Souter , 44tn Regt, (later essex Regmt.) THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL Galway, Thursday, July 1, 1824 MILITARY PROMOTIONS War-Office, July 9 95th Ditto - Thomas Alexander Souter, gentleman, to be Ensign without purchase, vice Oxley, promoted in the Royal African Corps. New Army List Thomas Alexander Souter Ensign: 30 Jun 1824; Lieut.: 8 May 1835; Captain: 14 Oct 1842 only survivor of the battle of Gandamack, fought in 1842. Related? SOUTER, Lady. Helena Lovett, da. of the late William Lochiel Cameron, Esq. : m. 1863, Sir Frank Henry Souter, C.S.I., C.I.E., who d. 1888, Commr. of Police at Bombay. Related? http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/FullDisplay.aspx?RecordId=014-00039113 > Name: > Harriet Denton > Event type: Marriage > Start date: 3 - May Start year: 1836 > End date: > End year: > Location: > Spouse: F.H. Souter > Age: > Status: > Parents: > Notes: F.H. Souter, Esq., son of the late Major Souter, formerly of > Prince of Wales's 10th Hussars, to Harriet Denton, youngest daughter of > George Denton, Esq., of the Midnapore and Tumlook division of public > works, at Calcutta. Transcribed by: FIBIS India Office Records > Reference: Source name: East India Register Source year: 1837 Source > edition: 1 Presidency: Bengal Is this possibly he? 44th Foot Memorial in Alverstoke Church, near Gosport - "Sacred to the memory of Colonel T. Mackrell, ADC to Her Majesty. Major W.B. Scott, Captain T. Swaine, Captain R.B. McRea, Captain T.R. Leighton, Captain T. Robinson, Captain F.C. Collins, Lieutenant W.H. Dodgin, Lieutenant W.G. White, Lieutenant W.G. Wade, Lieutenant H. Cadett, Lieutenant S. Swinton, Lieutenant F.J.C. Fortye, Lieutenant A.W. Gray, Paymaster T. Bourke, Lieut. and Qr. Master R.B. Halahan, Surgeon J. Harcourt, Assistant Surgeon W. Balfour, Assistant Surgeon W. Primrose. And 645 non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the 44th Regiment, who fell upon the field of battle in the disastrous Affghan War of 1841 and 1842. They sank with arms in their hands unconquered, but overpowered by the united horrors of climate, treachery, and barbarous warefare; their colours saved by Captain J. Souter, one of the few survivors, hang above this stone, which is erected to their memory by the officers of the 44th Regiment, June 1844."
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