Lieutenant Colonel John Fordyce

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Reference WMO/290054

Address:

Parish Kirk

Edrom

TD11 3PX

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Kaffir Wars (1779-1878)
About the memorial: Wall Monument with base and pediment. The Kaffir Wars (in the drop down menu) are alternatively known as the Xhosa Wars or as the Cape Frontier Wars.
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SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ JOHN FORDYCE ESQUIRE/ LIEUTENANT COLONEL OF HER/ MAJESTY'S 74TH HIGHLAND REGIMENT/ WHO FELL AT THE HEAD OF HIS REGIMENT IN ACTION/ AT WATERKLOOF, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE/ ON THE 6TH NOVEMBER 1851/ HE WAS ELDEST SON OF THE LATE/ THOMAS JOHN FORDYCE/ ESQUIRE OF ATTON/ AND ANNE, HIS WIFE/ DAUGHTER OF THE LATE GEORGE BUCHAN, ESQUIRE/ OF KELLOE IN THIS COUNTY/ COMBINING AS HE DID IN HIS CHARACTER/ HIGH PROFESSIONAL TALENT WITH/ EMINENT PRIVATE WORTH/ HIS DEATH WAS MOURNED OVER BY HIS RELATIVES/ AND ALL CLASSES OF HIS COUNTRYMEN/ AND LAMENTED BY HIS REGIMENT, THEY HAVING LOST/ IN HIM, A BRAVE AND ABLE COMMANDER AND/ A GENEROUS BENEFACTOR/ HIS MORTAL REMAINS WERE BROUGHT/ TO GREAT BRITAIN AT THE WISH OF THE FAMILY/ AND WERE INTERRED IN THE/ CEMETERY AT KENSAL GREEN NEAR LONDON/ ON THE 11TH OCTOBER 1852/ "IN SURE AND CERTAIN HOPE OF/ THE RESURRECTION TO ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH/ OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST/ "BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH AND I WILL/ GIVE THEE A CROWN OF LIFE...REV.II. CH. 10 V.

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