The death is announced as having taken place, on the 9th July, at Southampton, in his forty-eighth year, of Assistant Commissary-General Alexander Dickson, Ordnance Store Department (retired), late of the Royal Artillery. He was the eldest son of the late Lieutenant-General Richard Beaumont Burnaby, late of the Royal Artillery. He served in the Crimean campaign from May, 1855, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol. His services in that campaign were rewarded by a medal with clasp and the Turkish medal. Subsequently he took part with distinction in the Indian Mutiny campaign, and was present at the siege and fall of Lucknow, and at many of the numerous engagements of that war (medal with clasp). [Naval & Military Gazette and Weekly Chronicle of the United Service - Wednesday 19 July 1882, p.16]
The death is announced as having taken place, on the 9th July, at Southampton, in his forty-eighth year, of Assistant Commissary-General Alexander Dickson, Ordnance Store Department (retired), late of the Royal Artillery. He was the eldest son of the late Lieutenant-General Richard Beaumont Burnaby, late of the Royal Artillery. He served in the Crimean campaign from May, 1855, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol. His services in that campaign were rewarded by a medal with clasp and the Turkish medal. Subsequently he took part with distinction in the Indian Mutiny campaign, and was present at the siege and fall of Lucknow, and at many of the numerous engagements of that war (medal with clasp). [Naval & Military Gazette and Weekly Chronicle of the United Service - Wednesday 19 July 1882, p.16]
Family Members
Advertisement
Advertisement
