Memorial
Charles Viscount Brome 1st Marquess Cornwallis Kg (lost)
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- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 48536
- Description
- RED MARBLE TABLET
- Inscription
- CHARLES VISCOUNT BROME, FIRST MARQUESS CORNWALLIS, K.G., ENSIGN 1ST GUARDS 1756; LIEUT-GENERAL ON SERVICE IN AMERICA 1776-81; LORD-LIEUT. AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN IRELAND 1798-1801; GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN INDIA FROM 1876-93; AND FROM MARCH, 1805, TILL HIS DEATH AT GHAZEPORE, OCTOBER 1805.
- War
- Military Service
- Number Commemorated
- 1
- Died
- 1
- Information shown
- rank,year died,regiment,forename,age of death,occupation,additional
- War
- 19th Century Conflict (1800-1899)
- Number Commemorated
- 1
- Served
- 1
- Maintenance History
- 1944: MEMORIAL WAS LOST WHEN THE CHAPEL WAS DESTROYED BY A FLYING BOMB
Components
- Tablet
Made from: Marble - Red
Condition: Lost
- THE GUARDS' CHAPEL by WILKINSON, N 190 Source: Image Library IWM PRINTED BOOKS Published:THE CHISWICK PRESS LTD 1938 NEW SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N11