Cornet Francis Charlton Kinsant


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Reference WMO/299763

Address:

Church of St Mary the Virgin

Middleton-on-the-Hill

SY8 4BE

England

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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: Unknown
Conflicts:
  • Revolutionary/Napoleonic (1792-1815)
About the memorial: Decorated base and pediment. In curved head is a badly worn family crest above palm leaves and a lion. Roses in relief on the base with cannon, shield, sword and banners.
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Main Inscription - SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ FRANCIS CHARLTON KINCHANT/ CORNET IN THE SCOTS GREYS/ ONLY SON OF THE REVEREND F KINCHANT/ AND MARY HIS WIFE OF EASTON IN THIS PARISH/ THIS YOUNG MAN HAD ONLY JOINED HIS REGIMENT LONG ENOUGH/ TO GAIN THE GOOD OPINION AND REGARD BOTH OF HIS/ BROTHER OFFICERS AND OF HIS MEN, AND TO GIVE GREAT/ PROMISE OF BECOMING AN ORNAMENT TO HIS PROFESSION/ WHEN HE WAS CUT OFF AT THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO/ THE 18TH OF JUNE 1815, IN THE 21ST YEAR OF HIS AGE./ BEFORE HE FELL HE GAVE DECISIVE PROOFS OF THE/ GREATEST ZEAL, HUMANITY AND COURAGE./ HIS SISTER WHO ERECTS THIS SMALL MEMORIAL OF HER/ REGRET AND LOVE, ENDEAVOUR TO CONSOLE HERSELF/ BY HIS REMEMBERING THAT HIS CAREER THO' SHORT WAS MOST/ HONARABLE TO HIMSELF AND USEFUL TO HIS COUNTRY/ Lower Down - ASHTON, FECIT,/ SWALLOW STREET/ LONDON

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