Captain James Ranald Burt

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Reference WMO/287519

Address:

St Giles' Cathedral

High Street

Edinburgh

EH1 1RE

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 Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Colonial India
About the memorial: Stone Tablet surmounted by an urn. In the old organ loft-inaccesible to the public. Killed at the Batttle of Ferozepur in the first Anglo-Sikh War.
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SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/CAPTAIN JAMES RANALD BURT/OF THE 6TH REGIMENT BENGAL LIGHT CAVALRY,/WHO DIED AT FEROZEPORE/8TH MAY 1846, AGED 35 YEARS/THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY HIS BROTHER OFFICERS AS/A MEMORIAL OF THEIR SORROW FOR THE DEATH OF ONE/WHO POSSESSED THEIR REGARD AND ESTEEM, ONE WHOSE/HIGH PRINCIPLES AND CHIVALROUS HONOUR RENDERED/HIM AN ORNAMENT TO HIS PROFESSION, AND A PRIDE TO/THE CORPS TO WHICH HE BELONGED.

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