soon afterward, fred litchfield promptly left adelaide to travel to bengal to join his younger brother george who was interested in tea plantations, thereby returning to the place of his birth and infancy. in june 1866, the litchfield family heard that 29-year-old george charles litchfield had died suddenly in cachar, bengal, on 10 march. the cause is unknown, but famine and disease was then raging in many districts of bengal.