Captain James Sholto Douglas

  • Captain James Sholto Douglas - family memorial below Edinburgh Castle - Taken by Mr C E Moreton 10 Apr 2014

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  • Captaion James Sholto Douglas - the left panel of the three - Taken by Mr C E Moreton 10 Apr 2014

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  • Captain James Sholto Douglas - Taken by Mr C E Moreton 10 Apr 2014

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Reference WMO/171411

Address:

St Cuthbert's Church

Lothian Road

Edinburgh

EH1 2EP

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
About the memorial: The memorial states that Captain Douglas was killed at Kheree, but the modern spelling is Kheri. In the Indian Rebellion of 1857 the area became one of the chief centres of Indian independence movement in northern Oudh. The British refugees from Shahjahanpur reached here on 2nd June 1857, and two days later the area was abandoned, most of the British party were shot down on the way to Sitapur, and the survivors died or were murdered later in Lucknow. The British officials in Mallanpur, with a few who had fled from Sitapur, escaped to Nepal, where later on most of them died. Till October 1858, British officials did not make any other attempt to regain control of the district. By the end of 1858 British officials regained control in the action in which Captain Douglas was killed. The memorial gravestone is a plaque on a wall rather than a conventional freestanding gravestone, with the bodies of those actually buried there nearby.
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