Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Peterborough
Town
Woodston
County
Cambridgeshire
Country
England
Commemoration
Waterloo Campaign (1815)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
67247

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Current location

Above the door
on the east wall of the north chapel (now the vestry)
ST AUGUSTINES CHURCH
Oundle Road
Woodston
Peterborough
Cambridgeshire
PE2 9PW
England

OS Grid Ref: TL 18618 97806
Denomination: Church of England

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Description
The circular white marble panel, bearing the engraved inscription, is set on a black marble background, framed by Corinthian columns of grey marble.
Inscription
THE REV'D J. BRINGHURST/ RECTOR OF THIS PARISH,/ OUT OF PATERNAL AFFECTION/ TO A BELOVED SON,/ ERECTS THIS MONUMENT/ TO RECORD THE DEATH OF/ MAJOR JOHN DORSET BRINGHURST/ OF THE KING'S DRAGOON GUARDS,/ WHO FELL AT THE HEAD OF HIS TROOP/ IN THE EVER MEMORABLE BATTLE/ OF WATERLOO IN FLANDERS/ JUNE 18TH 1815/ AGED 30 YEARS
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Bringhurst, John Dorset
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Commemorations
  • Waterloo Campaign (1815)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: no
    Information shown: Undefined
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Tablet
    Measurements: depth c30, height c600, width c600
    Materials: Marble
  • Tablet
    Measurements: depth c60, height c800, width c900
    Materials: Marble - Black
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Sponsorship
Private
Responsibility
Church of England
Reference
  • John Dorset Bringhurst is also commemorated on a plaque at the Royal Chapel and St Joseph Church in Waterloo. That plaque states that he was in the 1st Regiment Dragoon Guards, that he was Aide de Camp to Major General Sir H. Fane, and that he was buried "on the spot where he fell, near the west entrance of the farm of la Haye Sainte".

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