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| Captain Heigham is wearing the uniform of the 7th Dragoon Guards c1852. He exchanged into the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers some time after that. As a brevet major he served in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and was mortally wounded at Lucknow. George Henry John Heigham was born at the family home of Hunston Hall, Suffolk, in 1832. He died in India, aged 30, on 6th May 1861 and was buried at Lucknow. A memorial can be found inside St Michael's Church, Hunston. This miniature painting of him was sold at Bonhams for 813 pounds. |
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