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Location
In Mount Joy Cemetery, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight Description Private headstone. Section B Plot 113. |
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Headstone
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Inscription
details awaited Further Information
On 9 July 1857 at the Siege of Delhi, India, Major Tombs twice went to the rescue
of one of his junior officers (HILLS, J.). On the first occasion one of the enemy
was about to kill the young officer with his own sword when Major Tombs rushed in
and shot the man. A second attack on the subaltern resulted in his being cut down
with a sword wound to the head, and he would undoubtedly have been killed if Major
Tombs had not put his sword through the assailant.
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Memorials & Monuments
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