Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Argyll And Bute
- Town
- Kilmartin
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- 19th Century Wars (1800-1899), Waterloo Campaign (1815), Non-Combat Deaths
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 76857
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Current location
Parish Church (Old)
A816
Kilmartin
Argyll And Bute
Strathclyde
PA31 8RN
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NR 83451 98851
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Marble Tablet
- Inscription
- TO THE MEMORY OF HIS EXCELLENCY/MAJOR GENERAL SIR NEIL CAMPBELL, C.B./COLONEL OF THE ROYAL AFRICAN CORPS,/GOVERNOR & COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF SIERRA LEONE AND IT'S DEPENDENCIES;/SON OF/NEIL CAMPBELL, ESQ. OF DUNTROON & GIB,/BORN 1ST MAY, 1776/WHO AFTER ARDUOUS & DISTINGUISHED SERVICES IN THE WEST INDIES,/SPAIN, PORTUGAL, GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS, & FRANCE,/AT LENGTH FELL A SACRIFICE TO THE BANEFUL CLIMATE OF AFRICA,/ON 14TH MAY, 1827./BELOVED, ADMIRED, & LAMENTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM:/THIS TABLET IS ERECTED/BY HIS SOLE SURVIVING BROTHER,/PATRICK CAMPBELL, LIEUT. COL. ROYAL ARTILLERY,/HIS MAJESTY'S CONSUL GENERAL IN EGYPT,/1ST MAY, 1833./AS THE LAST TESTIMONY OF AFFECTION & REGRET./1809 MARTINIQUE, THE SAINTES/1810 GUADALOUPE/1811 FUENTES D'ONOR, ALMEIDA/1812 CIUDAD RODRIGO, BADAJOS, SALAMANCA, BURGOS/1813 LUPZEN, FERE CHAMPENOISE. &c./1815 WATERLOO, CAMBRAY.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Campbell, Neil
See details - Commemorations
- 19th Century Wars (1800-1899)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 1
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, rank, regiment, date of birth, manner of death, place of death, age, date of death, relationships, full military career
Order of information: Undefined - Waterloo Campaign (1815)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 1
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, rank, regiment, date of birth, manner of death, place of death, age, date of death, relationships, full military career
Order of information: Undefined - Non-Combat Deaths
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, rank, regiment, date of birth, manner of death, place of death, age, date of death, relationships, full military career
Order of information: Undefined
- 19th Century Wars (1800-1899)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Tablet
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
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