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Current location
At the east end of the Chapel (now Visitors Centre)
Royal Victoria Country Park
Netley
Eastleigh
Hampshire
SO31 5GZ
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 46434 07678
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Large three light stained glass altar window depicting the Ascension, with brief dedicatory inscription at foot.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF GEORGE STEWART BEATSON MD CB/SURGEON GENERAL ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT /WHO DIED AT SIMLA JUNE 7 1874/ ERECTED BY HIS.....
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Colonial India
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,year died,place of death,forename,decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- Colonial India
- Components
- Window
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Glass
- Window
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Other
- Reference
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography G S Beatson (1814-1874) Published:Oxford University Press 2004 Principal Medical Officer of HM Forces in India 1865-68; 1872-74. Commandant of Royal Victoria Military Hospital 1868-1871.
- Illustrated London News 5 September 1874 pages 229-30. Obituary and portrait.
- Buildings of England series by Various Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (1967; 1973 reprint) p.351
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