Reference WMO/289259
Address:
St Michael and All Angels Church
The Badminton Estate
Badminton
GL9 1DD
England
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- Colonial India
Grants to support the repair and conservation of war memorials are available from the charity War Memorials Trust if it has raised funds. Support is focused on war memorials in Very bad or Poor condition or where there is a serious Concern.
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TO COMMEMORATE/THE LAMENTED DEATH OF/MAJOR ARTHUR SOMERSET,/ELDEST SON OF Lt Gnl LORD FITZROY SOMERSET, K.C.B./8TH SON OF HENRY, 5TH DUKE OF BEAUFORT, THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED/BY HIS FRIEND AND COUSIN HENRY, 7TH DUKE OF BEAUFORT, K.G./MAJOR SOMERSET RECEIVED 4 SEVERE WOUNDS AT THE BATTLE OF GWALIOR,/ON THE 29TH DECR 1843,/AND AT THE BATTLE OF FEROZESCHAH, ON THE SUTLEIJ, ON THE 21ST DECR 1845,/WHILST IN THE ACT OF CHEERING ON H.M. 50TH REGT IN ONE OF THEIR CHARGES AGAINST THE/ENEMYS. TRENCHES HE AGAIN RECEIVED 5 WOUNDS FROM THE EFFECTS OF WHICH HE DIEED AT FEROZEPORE/ON THE 25TH OF THAT MONTH, AGED 30. AND WAS BURIED IN THE CONSECRATED GROUND/OF THAT SETTLEMENT BETWEEN MAJOR GENL SIR ROBERT SALE G.C.B. AND MAJOR BROADFOOT, C.B./WHO FELL IN THE SAME ACTION, "|THREE MOST GALLANT SPIRITS"./NO SOLDIER COULD DESIRE A PROUDER EPITAPH THAN THE RECORD OF HIS SERVICES/AS CONVEYED IN THE DESPATCHES OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA AND IN THOSE OF/THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE BRITISH FORCES./THE FORMER WROTE THUS, "MAJOR SOMERSET HAD MANY FINE QUALITIES/WHICH WOULD HAVE RIPENED INTO MATURITY AND MADE HIM A MOST DISTINGUISHED OFFICER./HE HAD AN ACCURATE EYE, AND GREAT QUICKNESS FOR TROOPS AND IN OUR SOCIAL CIRCLE,/HE WAS AN UNIVERSAL FAVORITE FROM HIS KINDHEARTEDNESS AND AMIABILITY./HE FELL FIGHTING WITH THE HEREDITARY COURAGE OF HIS RACE."/THGE COMMANDER IN CHIEF THUS ANNOUNCED HIS DEATH,/"IT HAS PLEASED HIM IN WHOSE HANDS ARE THE ISSUES OF LIFE AND DEATH,/TO CLOSE A CAREER AS BRIGHT AS EVER WAS PURSUED/IN THE ANNALS OF CHIVALRY,/MAJOR SOMERSET DIED REGRETTED BY/THE WHOLE ARMY."
MAJOR ARTHUR SOMERSET
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