Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Eden
- Town
- Dacre
- County
- Cumbria
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 9023
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Current location
St Andrew's Church
Dacre
Eden
Cumbria
CA11 0HL
England
OS Grid Ref: NY 46002 26641
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- White marble tablet SURROUNDED BY STONE AND FLANKED BY black MARBLE PILLARS, on slate backboard with arched tablet. The inscription is in black Roman capitals.
- Inscription
- SACRED/ TO THE/ MEMORY OF/ CHARLES JAMES SALMOND/ CAPTAIN 7TH BENGAL CAVALRY/ ELDEST SON OF/ JAMES AND EMMA ISABELLA SALMOND/ OF WATERFOOT IN THIS PARISH/ BORN AT NOTTINGHAM 11TH NOVEMBER 1833/ OF CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY AND INCESSANTLY/ ENGAGED DURING THE INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857/ PRESENT AT THE BATTLES OF AGRA AND/ CAWNPORE AND AT THE RELIEF OF/ LUCKNOW UNDER SIR COLIN CAMPBELL/ BY WHOM ON THAT OCCASION HE WAS HONOURABLY/ MENTIONED. FIVE TIMES PREVIOUSLY WOUNDED/ HE FELL AT CAWNPORE WHILE ACTING AS/ AIDE DE CAMP/ TO SIR JAMES HOPE GRANT KCB ON THE/ NOGHT OF THE VICTORY OF THE 6TH DEC 1857/ HIS SORROWING PARENTS ERECT/ THIS MEMORIAL TO THEIR BELOVED GALLANT/ AND AFFECTIONATE SON
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Salmond, Charles James
See details - Commemorations
- Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, date of death, regiment, place of death, forenames, place of birth, manner of death, relationships
Order of information: Undefined
- Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
- Components
- Pillar
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Black - Tablet
Measurements: depth 200mm, height 1435 mm, width 920mm
Materials: Marble - White - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Slate
- Pillar
- 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
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