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An index of individuals listed in the [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=389&s_id=103 "Suffolk Regimental Gazette"] held at the Bury St Edmunds branch of Suffolk Record Office is also being put online on the FIBIS search site.
==Death by duel at Arnee, December 1798==
Colonel Henry Hervey Aston died 23 December 1798, at Arnee, Madras Presidency, a week after being shot in a duel by fellow officer Major James Allen
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=BNAgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA160 ''Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K. G. Volume 1 India 1797-1805''], (published 1858) page 160
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924027998024#page/n107/mode/2up Pages 84-89] from ''Memoirs of George Elers'' (refer below)
*India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-09/1284089082 thread] with an account from two London newspapers.
== External Links ==
===Historical Books Online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/recordoftwentyfi00canniala#page/n3/mode/2up ''Historical Record of the Twelfth, or the East Suffolk, Regiment of Foot : containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1847''] by Richard Cannon 1848. Archive.org. Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/recordoftwentyfi00canniala#page/56/mode/2up page 57] in 1797 in Madras
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924027998024#page/n9/mode/2up ''Memoirs of George Elers, Captain in the 12th Regiment of Foot (1777-1842) to which are added correspondence and other papers, with genealogy and notes''] 1903 Archive.org . He arrived in Madras [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924027998024#page/n81/mode/2up page 58]
===Other===
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Regiment_of_Foot 12th Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia
