2.06.09 William TICKLE

2.06.09. Sergeant 3102 William TICKLE. 48 Northamptonshire Regiment. Died at Forrest Hospital, Malta on 18 November 1870 aged 33 years and 10 months from Remittent Fever. He had served for 17 years and had been in the Crimea and India. He was at Pembroke Camp on the annual course of musketry when he was attacked by what at first appeared to be Common Maltese Fever, but which soon progressed to Remittent Fever. In the course of the fever he became jaundiced. On 17 and 18 November Sgt Tickle suffered from a complete suppression of urine, went into a coma and died in the evening of 18 November. His widow objected to a post mortem and none was carried out.

At rest in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta Plot 2 Row 06 Grave 9.