| Description | Containing: family correspondence (43 pieces), 1841-1863; at Hatfield School, 1841; as an army officer in London and Ireland, 1851-1852; serving in the West Indies (description of visit to Martinique? Garrison Theatre programme, 1854), 1852-1854; in Ireland at Mullingar and Dublin, 1855; at sea off Cape Finisterre; Malta; aboard the 'Medway' near Greece; at Sebastopol, Crimea, 1855-1856; sailed from Portsmouth in Her Majesty's Ship Himalaya for China, 1857; letter from Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope; diverted front Singapore to Calcutta because of Indian Mutiny; sailed up Ganges in 'Mirjapore' to Cawnpore and then on to relief of Lucknow; right arm amputated, died in hospital; unfinished last letter sent on by fellow officer, Captain W P Tinling; forms of application for prize money for the capture of Lucknow |