Captain Edward Macleod Blair

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Reference WMO/177597

Address:

St Michael's Church

Broad Street

Bath

BA1 5LJ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Conflicts:
  • Afghanistan (1800-1899)
  • Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
About the memorial: A marble tablet with crossed swords and decorated helmet in relief at its head and wreaths at the top of columnar edges to the stone. Etched dedication in black. Captain Blair died in the retreat from Kabul in 1842. His widow and daughters were killed at Cawnpore duting the Indian Mutiny.
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SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ CAPTN EDWARD MACLEOD BLAIR/ OF THE 5TH BENGAL CAVALRY, YOUNGEST SON/ OF GENL SIR ROBERT BLAIR KCB/ WHO WAS KILLED THE 13TH JANUARY 1842/ ON THE MARCH OF THE BRITISH ARMY FROM CABOOL/ AGED 38 YEARS/ SACRED ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF SUSAN/ WIFE OF CAPTAIN EDWARD MACLEOD BLAIR AGED 49 YEARS/ AND THEIR DAUGHTERS/ ISABELLA AGED 24 AND SUSAN AGED 17/ WHO ALL DIED AT CAWNPORE JUNE 1857/ JOHN CHAP 13 V7 CHAP II V25 OR 26

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