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Edit memorial name, location & address- Stone Marble
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
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ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS / OF ADLINGTON AND ITS VICINITY / TO THE MEMORY OF / ROBERT JOHN BROWNE CLAYTON, ESQ / LIEUT. 34TH REGT / ONLY SON OF / RICHD AND CATHERINE BROWNE CLAYTON, / OF ADLINGTON HALL IN THIS PARISH, / AND CARIGBYRNE, COUNTY OF WEXFORD, IRELAND, / WHO DIED ON THE 12TH JULY 1855, OF WOUNDS / RECEIVED AT THE SEIGE OF SEBASTOPOL, / AGED TWENTY YEARS. / AT HIS COUNTRY'S CALL AND IN OBEDIENCE TO THE CLAIMS / OF HONOUR AND DUTY, / HE ACCOMPANIED HIS REGIMENT TO THE CRIMEA. / ON LANDING HE WAS ATTACHED TO THE LIGHT DIVISION. / HE PERFORMED THE DUTIES OF THE SEIGE IN THE ADVANCED / TRENCHES; WAS TWICE CALLED TO LEAD, WITH THE OFFICERS / OF HIS REGIMENT, A STORMING PARTY; FIRST AT THE ATTACK AND CAPTURE OF THE QUARRIES AND RIFLE PITS / ON THE 7TH JUNE; THE SECOND TIME AT THE MEMORABLE ASSAULT ON THE REDAN BATTERY 18TH JUNE / WHEN HE WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED / HE RESIGNED HIMSELF IN PEACE AND HOPE IN THE / HANDS OF HIS MAKER, HUMBLY TRUSTING THROUGH / THE MERITS OF HIS SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, / TO INHERIT THE JOYS OF ETERNITY. / MAY THIS REMINISCENCE OF HIM PROVE / A CONSOLATION TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS / AND THIS TABLET TO HIS MEMORY / A PROOF "IF SUCH WERE NEEDED" THAT THE / MAN WHO SACRIFICES PRIVATE INTEREST / TO THE PUBLIC WELFARE, WILL EVER / LIVE IN THE AFFECTION OF / A GRATEFUL COUNTRY
Clayton, Robert Browne
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