Looking for records for soldiers who died in India in 1919

[ianshuter]

I am looking for any military record that might help me identify a unit within the RASC and cause of death for:

Private M/333404 Charles John Teale of Royal Army Service Corps who died on 2 June 1919 and is buried at TRIMULGHERRY CANTONMENT CEMETERY

 

I have checked the following records with no success
Pension card - only 1 part found
Register of Effects

Weekly casualty lists (only found up to March 1919)
CWGC
Find My Past - British Armed Forces, First World War Soldiers' Medical Records both as Teal and Teale
Forces War Records
Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects
Family trees
I have yet to find any UK death record
 

I have found his birth, baptism and marriage etc

hoping someone has a deeper knowledge of post 1918 India than my very limited one.

[HERITAGE PLUS]

The Army List India 1919 will indicate which Mechanised Transport Units of the RASC, the M in his service number indicating that he served in such a unit,  were stationed in the area of Trimulgherry, Deccan.

Have you tried the Coventry Newspapers for a death announcement/obituary?

Edited 14 November , 2023 by HERITAGE PLUS

[MaureenE]

His record is on FindmyPast, under the name Teal. If you are signed in, the link to an image of the record is https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=BL%2FBIND%2F005138087%2F00120&parentid=BL%2FBIND%2FD%2F486101

He died of Cholera. There was another death from Cholera the same day. There is no additional information about his unit, above what you already know. 

However on the same Church register page, there is a death from No. 3 Coy 8th Res [presumably Reserve] Battn, and a death "Attached 8th Res Battn".  These however did not include the  other cholera death.

Maureen

 

Transcription of the record

First name(s) Charles John

Archive The British Library

Last name Teal

Archive Reference N-2-125

Birth year 1879

Folio -

Death date 02 Jun 1919

Page 169

Death year 1919

Catalogue Description Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Madras, : 1698-1948

Age 40

Record set British India Office Deaths & Burials

Burial date 03 Jun 1919

Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Place Trimulgherry

Subcategory Parish Burials

Presidency Madras

Collections from Great Britain, UK None

[ianshuter]

9 hours ago, MaureenE said:

His record is on FindmyPast, under the name Teal. If you are signed in, the link to an image of the record is https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=BL%2FBIND%2F005138087%2F00120&parentid=BL%2FBIND%2FD%2F486101

He died of Cholera. There was another death from Cholera the same day. There is no additional information about his unit, above what you already know. 

However on the same Church register page, there is a death from No. 3 Coy 8th Res [presumably Reserve] Battn, and a death "Attached 8th Res Battn".  These however did not include the  other cholera death.

Maureen

 

Transcription of the record

First name(s) Charles John

Archive The British Library

Last name Teal

Archive Reference N-2-125

Birth year 1879

Folio -

Death date 02 Jun 1919

Page 169

Death year 1919

Catalogue Description Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Madras, : 1698-1948

Age 40

Record set British India Office Deaths & Burials

Burial date 03 Jun 1919

Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Place Trimulgherry

Subcategory Parish Burials

Presidency Madras

Collections from Great Britain, UK None

Thank you very much another mystery solved but I am now left wondering why that did not come up in my original searches under both spellings
Ian

[ianshuter]

Here is Charles's memorial page
https://www.swfhs.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2765:pte-cj-teale&catid=16:the-men-who-fell-in-ww1