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Walter Idington fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1836, 1957

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R17787-0-1-E, MG55/24-No43

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105058

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Walter Idington fonds
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Date(s):

1836, 1957

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

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0.003 meter(s)

Language of material:

English

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Transcript of a letter written while serving on H.M.S. Ringdove off the coast of Spain, to his brother, Peter Idington of Puslinch, U.C. concerning affairs in Spain and his proposed return to Canada, 1 January 1836 (3 pages). Information on the death of Dr. Walter Idington and his burial in the British Cemetery near Bilbao, with a request for financial assistance for the preservation of this cemetery, 1957 (6 pages).

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Idington, Walter, d. 1836

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Idington, Walter, d. 1836 : Navy physician

Walter Idington was a Surgeon of the Royal Navy who died at Portugalette, near Bilbao, on 16 May 1836 at the age of 33. He and his brother, Mr. Hebert, died while attending to Spanish soldiers ill with typhoid. Mr. Idington and Mr. Hebert died themselves of the disease and were buried in the British Cemetery at Lujua. Both were officers on H.M. Sloop RINGDOVE.

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Formerly in Miscellaneous Documents, 32/16.
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Great Britain - Royal Navy - Physicians, 1836 Spain, 1836

Bilbao (England) - Cemeteries, 1836, 1957 Canada, 1836

Dr. Walter Idington - Death and burial, 1836 Peter Idington, 1836

Puslinch (Upper Canada), 1836

Ringdove (Ship), 1836
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MG55/24-No43
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