Hi, I hope you can help. I have two ancestors who died or were killed in India but I don't know the circumstances.
My 3 x Great Grandfather Thomas O'Connell from Cork served as a Private in the 3rd Madras European Regiment and died in about 1867/8.
My 2 x Gt Grandfather (who married Thomas O'Connell's daughter) was James Magee and he served in the Royal Horse Artillery as a Quarter Master Sergeant. I'm not sure of the Battalion he was in as the original marriage certificate I have is so faded. He must have died between 1864 and 1869.
There is a possibility he also served in the Crimea, but in the Royal Artillery as a Gunner/Driver, prior to going to India.
Thanks in anticipation.
Carole