Churchill, G.

 

G. Churchill

Photographer, 4 Cornfield Road, Eastborne

 

 

 

 

Lavis, G. & R.

G. & R. Lavis
135 Regent Street
London
and at
Eastbourne

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Gordon Colquhoun Fraser (1866-1952) Captain R.N., the son of Simon James Gordon Fraser and Marian Worsley Fraser he was baptised at Castle Church, Stafford on 14 October 1866. (refer IGI) The National Maritime Museum has his journal dated 1901.

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Inscription on album page under the photograph - "Robert Home"

Robert Home, CB., the son of Major-General Richard Home and Frances Sophia Home nee Fraser, he was born in the East Indies about 1835. In the 1871 census he is shown at 8 Vernon Terrace, Brighton the house of his widowed mother. At the house also was his wife Eliza Georgina Fraser nee Elton and children Robert Elton Home and Eliza B. Home. He was at this time a Captain in the Royal Bengal Engineers. Twenty years later in the 1891 census he is living at 6 Suffolk Square, Cheltenham, he was then aged 56 and a retired Colonel of the Royal Engineers. He died in Cheltenham in 1896 aged 61.

His eldest son Robert Elton Home was born at Kussowlie, West Bengal, India on 29 May 1869. The next child Eliza Home was born in Brighton, England in 1871. Other children, Ethel, Kathleen, Richard, John and William were all born in the East Indies between 1873 and 1881.

Regimental Rank: Lieutenant, 7-4-1856; 2nd Captain, 9-12-1864; Captain, 5-7-1872; Major, 25-8-1873.
Army Rank: Lieutenant Colonel, 1-4-1874; Colonel, 12-5-1877.
War Service: Ashanti, 1873-4.

OFFICERS OF THE ROYAL ENGINEERS - compiled by Lieutenant Colonel Edward De Santis
Census 1871 and 1891
Free BDM Sep1896 Cheltenham 6a 230

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Inscription on album page under the photograph - "Duncan Home -V-C-

Lieutenant Duncan Charles Home VC Bengal Engineers, Indian Army
born 10 June 1828 Jubbulpore, Central Provinces, India.
died 1 October 1857 Malagarth, India.

Oct. 1. By the accidental explosion of a mine in the Fort of Malagurth, after having escaped unhurt from the assault on the Cashmere gate at Delhi, which he gallantly led, aged 28, Lieut. Duncan Charles Home, of the B.E., eldest son of Major-Gen. Richard Home, Hon. E. I. C.'s Service.
The Gentleman's Magazine 1858 page 336



MEMORANDUM.
Lieutenants Duncan Charles Home and Philip Salkeld, Bengal Engineers, upon whom the Victoria
Cross was provisionally conferred by Major- General Sir Archdale Wilson, Bart., K.C.B., for their conspicuous bravery in the performance of the desperate duty of blowing in the Cashmere Gate of the Fortress of Delhi, in broad daylight, under a heavy fire of musketry, on the morning of the 14th September, 1857, preparatory to the assault, would have been recommended to Her Majesty for confirmation in that distinction, had they survived.

BULLETINS and OTHER STATE INTELLIGENCE FOR THE YEAR 1858.
IN FOUr PARTS. COMPILED AND ABRAXGED FROM THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
PUBLISHED IN THE LONDON GAZETTE. BY T. L. BEHAN, SUPERINTENDENT.
PART H. PRINTED BY HARRISON AND SONS, LONDON GAZETTE OFFICE, ST. MAETlN's LANE.

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Frederick Home

Frederick Jervis Home (Major - Royal Engineers) born in Calcutta on 22 November 1839. He married Constance Stanley McGowan (born 1847 India - died 1894)