Lieutenant Andrew Will

Lt Andrew Will memorial plaque - Taken by Grant Balfour 12 Jan 2020

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Brechin Cathedral with plaque on outer wall of the chancel - Taken by Grant Balfour 12 Jan 2020

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Reference WMO/269623

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Brechin Cathedral

6 Church Street

Brechin

DD9 6EU

Scotland

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Status: On original site

Type: Non freestanding

Location: External

Setting: Attached to a building/structure

Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet

Materials:

Stone Stone (any)

Lettering: Incised

Conflicts:

Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Revolutionary/Napoleonic (1792-1815)

About the memorial: Rectangular plaque with pedimented sandstone surround. A photograph from 1902 shows the plaque located on the wall to the left of the (then ruined) chancel. It was probably put in its present position sometime after the chancel restoration in the early 20th century.

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Service history of Lieutenant Andrew Will.

Lieutenant Andrew Will appears to be from Brechin and to have been in the Angusshire (or Forfarshire) Fencibles before 1800 as he was promoted to Lieutenant in the Angushire Fencibles and recommended for a commission in the line on the 5th November 1800. In 1807 he joined the 91st foot (Lieutenant Andrew Will from the Forfar Militia to be Ensign), then in 1808 he joined the 92nd Foot (Ensign Andrew Will, from the 91st Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase).
His name occurs in the list of officers who embarked with the 1st Battalion 92nd at Deal on the 21st September 1810 and landed at Lisbon on the 8th October 1810. His entry in Lionel S. Challis's "Peninsula Roll Call" has him as a Lieutenant 92Ft. 18 Feb 1808 and in the Peninsular War from October 1810 to April 1814. Actions he was involved in were Fuentes d’Onoro (5th May 1811), Arroyo dos Molinos (October 1811), Almaraz (May 1812) and Alba de Tormes (10th and 11th November 1812). At the latter battle, the 92nd had 8 men killed, and Lieutenant Andrew Will and 33 N-C officers and men wounded, of whom 7 later died of their wounds. 
He was with the 92nd in Captain Robert Winchester's Company at Quatre Bras and Waterloo in 1815.
The regiment was posted to Jamaica in 1819, disembarking at Kingston on the 4th June. They were soon suffering from Yellow fever and between 25th June and 24th December 1819, they lost 10 officers, 13 sergeants, 8 drummers, and 254 rank and file, 2 officer’s wives and 2 children, 32 soldier’s wives and 29 children. Lt Andrew Will died on the 7th October 1819, at Snow Hill Camp, Jamaica.

References:
Wellington’s Men Remembered Vol 2.
Lionel S. Challis's "Peninsula Roll Call":
Waterloo Roll Call
The Life of a Regiment - The History of the Gordon Highlanders. Lt-Col. C Greenhill Gardyne (Volumes 1 & 2).

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To the Memory of ANDREW WILL Late Lieutenant in the 92nd (Highland) Regiment who, after serving for four years in the peninsular war where he was severely wounded in the head, and at the Battles of QUATRE BRAS & WATERLOO, fell in Jamaica on the 7th of Octr 1819, a victim to the Climate.

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