Captain John Woodburn

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Reference WMO/259934

Address:

Parish Church

Shalloch Place

Bellsbank

Dalmellington

KA6 7TW

Scotland

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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
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • Afghanistan (1800-1899)
About the memorial: Highly decorative marble tablet. See also WMO/170844 for another memorial to him in Edinburgh.
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SACRED/TO THE MEMORY/OF/CAPTAIN JAMES WOODBURN/OF THE/44TH REGIMENT BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY,/WHO WITH THE WHOLE OF THE DETACHMENT/UNDER HIS COMMAND./FELL GLORIOUSLY IN ACTION/BETWEEN GHUZNE AND CAROOI/IN/AFGHANISTAN/ON THE/4TH NOVEMBER 1841,/IN THE 39TH YEAR OF HIS AGE/ THIS TABLET IS ERECTED/TO THE MEMORY OF THEIR DEPARTED FRIENDS/BY HIS BROTHER OFFICERS OF THE REGIMENT/IN TESTIMONY OF THEIR HIGH ESTEEM AND REGARD/BOTH AS AN OFFICER AND GENTLEMAN/AND OF THEIR UNBOUNDED ADMIRATION/AMIDST A HOST OF ENEMIES/IN THE TRYING HOUR OF DANGER AND OF BATTLE

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