Letter from Ensign Gordon Hugh Davidson, Bengal European Light Infantry to his sister Dorothy, Subathoo, 17 Mar 1845.
Davidson writes that he was sick last week (’eighteen leeches on my chest’) and describes the duties of his seven servants and the nature of life in the Mess.
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).