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Copy letter from Ensign Gordon Hugh Davidson, Bengal European Light Infantry, to his mother, Camp Munimargery, 13 Dec 1845. He has very sudden orders for his regiment to join the army and had only 20 minutes to pack up his things, ‘a subaltern has only got one camel to carry everything so that there are lots of us three to a tent’. He describes hard marches, ‘I did hear of poor Trenchard’s trial ... but if he lives the life he did in England he will not do for this country, and if he gets into trouble again nothing will save his commission’. From a collection of letters and papers of and relating to Lt Gordon Hugh Davidson, 1st Bengal European Light Infantry, 1841-1852. Lt Davidson was killed at the Battle of Sobraon, during the 1st Sikh War, 10 Feb 1846. Plus transcripts. Associated with the 1st Sikh War (1845-1846).

1st Sikh War (1845-1846)