Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
North East Fife
Town
St Andrews
County
Fife
Country
Scotland
Commemoration
VC or GC Recipients, First and Second Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-1842 and 1878-1880)
Ceremony
  • Placed
    Date: Before 1st December 1880
    Attended by:
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
44480

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Current location

Near to the memorial window to Dr Cook
his relative.
3a
St Salvator's Chapel
North Street
St Andrews
North East Fife
Fife
KY16 9UY
Scotland

OS Grid Ref: NO 51012 16836
Denomination: Church of Scotland

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Description
Wall-mounted launcet-shaped Binnie free stone tablet. Incised black lettering. brackets at top and base to affix tablet to wall. With an inlaid marble Crest and Coat of Arms of Major Cook's branch of the family, motto - " TUTUM MONSTRAT ITER"
Inscription
IN MEMORY OF/ MAJOR JOHN COOK V.C./ BENGAL STAFF CORPS. 5TH GOORKHA REGIMENT/ WHO/ AFTER A DISTINGUISHED CAREER AS A SOLDIER/ WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED IN THE ATTACK/ ON THE TAKHT-I SHAHR PEAK ON DECEMBER 12/ AND DIED AT KABUL ON DECEMBER 19 1879/ IN THE THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE./ THIS MEMORIAL/ IS ERECTED BY HIS/ SURVIVING BROTHERS AND SISTERS/ IN A PLACE LONG ASSOCIATED/ WITH HIS RACE AND NAME.
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Cook, James
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Commemorations
  • VC or GC Recipients
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: rank, forename, surname, decoration, regiment, manner of death, date and place of wounding, place of death, date of death, age at death, additional
    Order of information: Undefined
  • First and Second Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-1842 and 1878-1880)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: rank, forename, surname, decoration, regiment, manner of death, date and place of wounding, place of death, date of death, age at death, additional
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Tablet
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Undefined
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • Dundee Courier - Friday 03 December 1880 MONUMENT TO MAJOR COOK, V.C. (The church is the St Andrews College Church)
  • Fifeshire Journal - Thursday 02 December 1880 MONUMENT TO MAJOR COOK, V.C.
  • Dundee Courier - Wednesday 01 December 1880 MONUMENT TO MAJOR COOK, V.C.
  • Fife News - Saturday 04 December 1880 MONUMENT TO MAJOR COOK, V.C.

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