Surgeon Major P Shepherd (LOST)

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Memorial details

Memorial type: Board / Plaque / Tablet
District: Eastleigh
Town: Netley
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Commemoration: Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
Lost: Lost
WM Reference: 49766

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Current location

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Previous locations

In the Chapel
Royal Victoria Military Hospital
Netley
Eastleigh
Hampshire
SO3 5GZ
England

OS Grid Ref: SU 460 080
Denomination: Undefined
Museum of Military Medicine
Keogh Barracks
Ash Vale
Aldershot
Surrey Heath
Surrey
GU12 5RQ
England

OS Grid Ref: SU 89802 54288
Denomination: Undefined
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Description

Large brass plaque on black slate back board

Inscription

IN MEMORY OF PETER SHEPHERD, M.B., UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, /SURGEON-MAJOR HER MAJESTY'S ARMY, BORN AT LEOCHEL CUSHNIE,/ ABERDEENSHIRE, 25TH AUGUST 1841; WHO SACRIFICED HIS OWN LIFE/AT THE BATTLE OF ISANDDLWANE , ZULULAND, 22 JANY 1879,/ IN THE ENDEAVOUR TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A WOUNDED COMRADE. /ERECTED BY HIS BROTHER OFFICERS AND FRIENDS.

Inscription legible?

yes

Names on memorial

Shepherd, Peter
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Commemorations

Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, date of death, place of death, forename, place of birth, manner of death, date of birth, additional
Order of information: Undefined

Components

Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Slate

Condition

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Trust fund/Scholarship

Yes
Purpose: Shepherd Gold Medal to be competed for annually as a surgical prize in the University of Aberdeen.

Sponsorship

Other

Reference

British Medical Journal 10 July 1880 page70 Details of 'large and handsome' memorial brass, which had been placed on the wall of the Chapel.
See also our reference 64618 for a memorial to him at Leochel Cushnie, Scotland, his home village
Philip Hoare: 'Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (London: Fourth Estate, 2001) p.181

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