Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Badenoch And Strathspey
Town
Kingussie
County
Highland
Country
Scotland
Commemoration
Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
78895

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Current location

North East end of High Street
setback slightly from road
St. Columba's Church
High Street
Kingussie
Badenoch And Strathspey
Highland
PH21 1HY
Scotland

OS Grid Ref: NH 76079 00695
Denomination: Church of Scotland

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Description
Marble tablet on internal church wall, would have been replaced after the fire in 1924.
Inscription
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / GEORGE GORDON McBARNET, / CAPTAIN 55TH REGIMENT BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY / WHO BEING ATTACHED TO THE 1ST BRIGADE EUROPEAN / REGIMENT, "FUSILIERS" FELL AT THE ASSAULT OF DELHI / ON THE 14TH OF SEPTEMBER 1857, AGED 33 YEARS. / FEW AMONG THE MANY HEROES SLAIN ON THE SOIL / OF DELHI WILL LIVE LONGER IN MEMORY. / YOUNG, GALLANT, AND GIFTED WITH THE / NOBLEST QUALITIES - MENTAL AND PERSONAL - / HE FELL WHEN HE COULD LEAST BE SPARED. / COULD SOLDIER ASK A MORE GLORIOUS DEATH? / IN TOKEN OF THE LOVE THEY BORE THEIR LATE COMRADE / THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS BROTHER OFFICERS. / "BY THY CROSS AND PASSION, GOOD LORD, DELIVER US."
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Mcbarnet, George Gordon
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Commemorations
  • Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, regiment, date of death, place of death, manner of death, age
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Tablet
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Marble
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • Nairnshire Telegraph and General Advertiser for the Northern Counties - Wednesday 05 January 1859 THE LATE CAPTAIN GEORGE GORDON MACBARNET Jullunder. Bengal, 12th Nov. 1858.— Dear Sir,— The officers of the 55th Regiment, Bengal, N.I., having resolved to erect a monument the memory of their much-lamented brother officer, Captain George Gordon M'Barnet, who fell at the assault of Delhi, and his parish church being considered the most appropriate place for such a tablet to placed, I do myself the pleasure of addressing you on the subject, with the view of ascertaining if any objections exist to such a tablet being placed the parish church of Kingussie, where we understand Captain M‘Barnet was born. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001194/18590105/034/0003

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