Isaac Coffin

The company took part in the First Anglo-Burmese War, and Coffin was present at the attacks on Rangoon on 9 and 15 December 1824.

[3] A series of posts followed, Coffin was quartermaster, interpreter, and paymaster to the 12th Madras Native Infantry from 27 October 1826, and was advanced to captain on 26 July 1828.

Coffin was promoted to major on 24 July 1840, and then to lieutenant-colonel on 15 September 1845, being appointed to the 3rd (Palamcottah) regiment of the Madras native light infantry several weeks later on 7 October 1845.

He married, secondly, on 23 October 1866 at the British Embassy in Berlin Catherine Eliza Shepherd.

General Isaac Coffin died suddenly on 1 October 1872, at his home at 9 St John's Park South, Blackheath, London.