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2 the grief could not have been more poignant, than
3 was that of his young companion in arms who
4 shared the same tent with him and also watched
5 his departing spirit.
6 Lieutenant Shuttleworth* fell in the desperate
7 charge on the centre of the Sikh entrenchment.
8 This officer had previous to the campaign obtained
9 leave to revisit his native land, and renew the ties
10 of affection and friendship, after a residence of ten
11 years in a foreign land. He looked forward with
12 pleasure to the day when the cessation of hostilities
13 would enable him to fulfil his intention, a day
14 which had been necessarily postponed. But, alas!
15 a fond mother or affectionate sister, while perusing
16 the glad tidings of the proposed return of a son or
17 brother, little dreamt that the object of their love
18 was then marching to a field where he was destined
19 to fall in the defence of his country, and that by
20 the hand of a barbarous and inhuman foe who
21 turned a deaf ear to the imploring look and feeble
22 arm of a wounded man. But his body was not
23 hacked to pieces like that of poor Frederick
24 Hamilton ; and both were interred by their brother-
25 officers and men, with military honours, on the day
26 following the battle. Shuttleworth was a modest,
27 unassuming man, kind-hearted and a firm friend.
28 While at Akhberwala an incident occurred which
29 may be mentioned. Lieutenant Shuttleworth’s com-
30 pany was warned for picquet duty at Little Sobraon,
31 * Of the right wing of the First Bengal Eurepean regiment.