Captain Clermont Hugh COSTOBADIE
3rd (Prince of Wales's) Royal Dragoon Guards

Date of birth: 26th July 1837
Date of death: 26th August 1864

Died aged 27
Buried at Ahmednagar, India
Clermont Hugh Costobadie was born at Wensley, Yorkshire on the 26th of July 1837 the elder son of the Reverend Henry Palliser Costobadie, Rector of Husband's Bosworth, and Louisa Kate (nee Judd) Costobadie of Husband's Bosworth in Leicestershire. He was christened at Wensley on the 13th of August 1837.

He was educated at Lancing College from August 1848 to December 1853.

On the 25th of November 1855 he was commissioned as an Ensign in the 5th Light Infantry, British German Legion. The Legion was raised for service in the Crimea but in the event they saw no action there.

He was commissioned, by purchase, as a Cornet in the 1st (Prince of Wales's) Royal Dragoon Guards on the 5th of June 1857 and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 11th of March 1859. He transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards on the 25th of March 1859 and became a member of a Dublin lodge of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in Ireland on the 1st of April 1859. He was promoted to Captain by purchase on the 4th of August 1863.

He died at Ahmednagar in India and was buried there on the 27th of August 1864.

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