Later Life
He received a substantive promotion to Major on 4 April 1883.
Bromhead died of Typhoid Fever on 9 February 1891, at the age of 45, at Camp Dabhaura, Allahabad, British India where he is buried in a military cemetery.
The church at Thurlby, North Kesteven in Lincolnshire has a stained glass window dedicated to him. His grandfather, Lt.-General Sir Gonville Bromhead (1758–1822) fought at the Battle of Saratoga, and is buried in its churchyard. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the South Wales Borderers Museum (Brecon, Powys, Wales).
Bromhead was considered to be Irish, despite being born in Versailles, France. His mother, Judith Christine Wood, was certainly Irish, however his father's home was Thurlby Hall, north of Bassingham, near Lincoln. He was educated at the Thomas Magnus Grammar School in Newark, Nottinghamshire where one of the School Houses – 'Bromhead' is named after him.
Gonville Bromhead is a main character in Peter Ho Davies's story "Relief," which appeared first in The Paris Review and was later published in Davies's 1997 collection The Ugliest House in the World.
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