Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Gordon
- Town
- Leochel Cushnie
- County
- Grampian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 64618
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Current location
Parish Church
Unamed road
Leochel Cushnie
Gordon
Grampian
AB33 8LJ
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NJ 52999 10780
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Polished white marble tablet with Celtic style decoration.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF/ PETER SHEPHERD MB / UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN / SURGEON-MAJOR HER MAJESTY'S ARMY / BORN AT CRAIGMILL IN THIS PARISH / ON 25TH AUGUST 1841 / WHO SACRIFICED HIS OWN LIFE / AT THE BATTLE OF ISANDHLWANE, ZULULAND/ ON 22ND JANUARY 1897/ IN THE ENDEAVOUR TO / SAVE THE LIFE OF A WOUNDED COMRADE / ERECTED BY / FRIENDS AND BROTHER OFFICERS / ISANDHLWANE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Shepherd, Peter
See details - 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, date of birth, additional
Order of information: Undefined
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White
- Tablet
- Condition
- 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 Arranged by committee which also placed a plaque at the Royal Victoria Military Hospital (our reference 49766).
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