 He served in various military campaigns including the First Anglo-Afghan War.He died at Cheltenham, to which he had retired, having been discharged from the army due to poor health.Augustus Abbott was born in London and baptised on 10 March 1804 at St Pancras Old Church, the eldest son of Henry Alexius Abbott, a retired Calcutta merchant of Blackheath, Kent, and his wife Margaret Welsh, the daughter of William Welsh of Edinburgh.