Reference WMO/268329
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Tablet 1-IN HONOUR AND TO THE MEMORY OF/GENERAL SIR DAVID BAIRD/BART. G.C.B. & K.C./THIS COLUMN WAS ERECTED/A.D. 1832/TO INDOMITABLE COURAGE IN THE FIELD/HE UNITED/WISDOM AND PRUDENCE/IN THE COUNCIL/A BRAVE BUT GENEROUS ENEMY/HIS VICTORIES WERE EVER TENDERED BY MERCY/AND WITH HIS ARDENT LOVE OF GLORY/WAS BLENDED/THE TENDEREST CARE FOR HIS GALLANT AND DEVOTED FOLLOWERS/THE DETAILS OF HIS PUBLIC SERVICES ARE RECORDED/IN THE ANNALS OF HIS COUNTRY/HIS PRIVATE VIRTUES ARE EMBALMED IN THE HEARTS OF HIS FRIENDS/HONOUR AND VIRTUE WERE THE GUIDING STARS OF HIS DESTINY/PIETY AND CHARITY THE LEADING CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS MIND/HE FELT NO JEALOUSIES, HE HARBOURED NO RESENTMENTS/HE KNEW NO GUILE/IN THE LAND OF HIS FATHERS/HE AT LAST FOUND/REPOSE AND HAPPINESS IN DOMESTIC LIFE/FORGETTING THE CARES AND TURMOILS OF HIS EVENTFUL & BRILLIANT CAREER/AND IN THE EXERCISE OF EVERY SOCIAL AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUE/HE DIED BELOVED AND LAMENTED/AS HE HAD LIVED/HONOURED AND RENOWNED Tablet 2-TO COMMEMORATE/THE MARCH OF THE ANGOL-INDIAN ARMY/ACROSS THE GREAT DESERT/FROM KOSSEIR/TO/ALEXANDRIA/1801 Tablet 3-SERINGAPATAM/TAKEN BY STORM/4TH MAY/1799y Tablet 4-CAPE OF GOOD HOPE/CAPTURED/JAN 8TH/1806/CORUNA/JAN 16TH/1808
Sir David Baird
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LB18148
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Believed to belong to family of General Sir David Baird
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