War casualties (2)

Charles Xuereb, in his letter A French Cemetery (May 21), has produced some interesting historical facts from within Valletta during the siege 1798-1800 by reporting the number of French and Maltese who died inside the city throughout the first year when the French were besieged in Valletta

It does seem however there were also records kept of casualties in the countryside of the death toll of Maltese and military, according to Louis de Boisgelin who published a book in 1804, Ancient and Modern Malta, in which he also gives an account month by month of casualties for the two years the siege lasted

From September 1798 until September 1800, 725 Maltese insurgents were killed and 3,065 inhabitants in the countryside died from fever and other sickness,

In another column next to the monthly Maltese casualty figures there is an entry that reads: “Independently of the military who died from illness, or from the effects of their wounds, 42 were killed, five of whom were officers”.

Therefore, I refer again to my first letter (February 17). Where were the British servicemen who were killed buried on the island and those who died from illness during the siege?