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 1. Lists of burials and inscriptions.

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Transcribed byRobert Charnock
CommentThe Percy-Smith/Bullock papers contain a large number of lists of burials and inscriptions merged here into a unified database.

Many of the lists may be duplicated by material held by the Society of Genealogists.

View all other items of "Surname" with value "BODY" in "1.  Lists of burials and inscriptions." Surname  BODY    
Given Names  Edward Upton    
Degrees/ Honours  MC    
Deceased Rank  Major    
Deceased Occupation  Commanding 130th Battery Royal Field Artillery 40th Brigade 3rd Division    
View all other items of "Place of  Birth" with value "Wittersham Kent" in "1.  Lists of burials and inscriptions." Place of Birth  Wittersham Kent    
Birth  29 April 1879    
Death Date  4 November 1918    
Cause of Death  killed in action    
View all other items of "Place of  Death" with value "Ruesnes France" in "1.  Lists of burials and inscriptions." Place of Death  Ruesnes France    
Inscription  Major Edward Upton Body, M.C., Commanding 130th Battery Royal Field Artillery 40th Brigade 3rd Division, late Capt #1 Artillery Coy C.P.D. Corps, wounded at Marly Fraily? France 30 November 1916, and again at Minges 2 April 1916 and killed in action at Ruesnes 4 November 1918, where he is buried. Born at Wittersham, Kent 29 April 1879, and a warden of St John's Church, Calcutta    
View all other items of "Church /  Cemetery" with value "St Johns Church, Calcutta" in "1.  Lists of burials and inscriptions." Church / Cemetery  St Johns Church, Calcutta    
Source  Handwritten notes    
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The data reproduced here was accumulated over many years by Lt-Col Hubert Kendall Percy-Smith (1897-1975) and Brigadier Humphry Bullock (d 1959), both Indian Army officers and keen genealogists intent on collecting biographical data on persons who served in British India. They gathered it from a variety of sources including publications about the sub-continent, church records and of course gravestones, and often received such information from others with similar interests. They also endeavoured to compile service histories and even pedigrees based on the material they had collected. This information is included here but researchers should bear in mind that it may sometimes represent no more than their deductions.

After his retirement Percy-Smith was for a time honorary librarian at the Society of Genealogists, and the greater part of the material collected by him and Bullock is deposited there, including a large card index. However, on his death, Percy-Smith bequeathed the papers still in his possession to the National Army Museum which subsequently donated them to BACSA which in turn has donated them to the British Library to be added to the India Office Private Papers in its custody.

In the meantime BACSA agreed to a proposal from the Families in British India Society (FIBIS) to transcribe the data for posting on both our websites. BACSA as the inheritor of Percy-Smith’s papers owns the copyright in his work, and Brigadier Bullock's daughter, Mrs Anne Macdonald, has generously given permission to publish his. BACSA is grateful to FIBIS and its transcriber Robert Charnock, and to Mrs Macdonald, for making it possible to bring this Percy-Smith/Bullock data to a wider public.
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