Excerpts from England to the Antipodes & India (Madras: A.L.V. Press, 1904), PP. 25, 33, 47, 48, 49, 50.

Isaac Tyrrell, from Suffolk, enlisted at Chatham in 1846, joining the 46^th Regiment of Foot. He went to India three years later, remaining in the army until 1860, when he resigned in order to remain in India (his regiment was posted to New Zealand). He joined the police force in India, and then became a penitentiary official, finally retiring in 1895. In the excerpt below, Tyrrell describes his marriage in Lahore in 1851, the death of his son in Dinapore in 1853, and the outbreak of cholera during the regiment’s march to St. George in 1857.