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Soldiers of the Regiment Private John Lavender In the 1760s the 4th Regiment of Foot, The King's Own, was stationed in Berwick upon Tweed on the English-Scottish Border. A detachment, of around twenty five men, from the Regiment was sent to garrison Lindisfarne (or Holy Island) Castle, just off the Northumberland coast. Today Holy Island is connected to the mainland by a tarmac causeway, which at high tide is covered by the sea, in the 1760s the passage was across the sands. The local parish register records a soldier of the 4th Foot, John Lavender, who drowned whilst crossing the sands on 24th July 1767, his body being recovered at Goswick, on the Northumberland coast.
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