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From: G.J.Fox< >
Subject: Re: ERIC A. BLAIR (GEORGE ORWELL)
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 10:36:23 GMT


To Ed Blair and any others who it may concern,
Ed said:
>Yes, I would like a transcription of the Bengal Obituary, which includes Capt.
>E.M. Blair (15 lines>

ok here it is in full:

In Memory of
Lt.-Col. R.E. Chambers Surgeon E.F.Harpur
Capt. E.M. Blair Lieut. H.Y. Bazett
Capt. J. Bott Lieut. L.H. Hardiman
Capt. P.S. Hamilton Vetinary Surgeon J. Willis
Bt.-Capt. F.Collyer Riding Master R. Quantrill,
Of the 5th Regiment Bengal Cavalry, who, with almost the entire of the 3rd,
4th, 5th, and 6th troops of the corps, fell in gallant but hopeless conflict
in the disastrous retreat from Cabool, between the 6th and 13th of January 1842.
The surviving officers of the regiment erect this tablet. The lamented brave
whose deaths it records, though greatly outnumbered by a most treacherous
foe in snowy wastes and rugged defiles, for several days and nights
together, without the shelter even of a tent, and suffering from the
extremities of cold, hunger and thirst, in the depth of an Affghan winter,
sold their lives dearly as became British soldiers.
"How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished." - 11 Sam. v. 2,7.

Makes you feel kinda humble, doesn't it!

Hope you find this information useful.
Gerald Johnson Fox

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