CO-CTCH-0304

Record Date: 
23 November 2013
Graveyard: 
Christ Church Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

In memory of

GENERAL ST JOHN AUGUSTUS CLERKE RN

Colonel of the 75th Regiment

2nd son of the late

JONATHAN CLERKE ESQ MD

of this town

He served with distinction through

The peninsula campaigns

Under the Duke of Wellington

And was severely wounded at the storming

Of the Castle of Badajos having previously

Taken part in several of the

Principal engagements of the war

He died in Dublin

On the 17th of January 1870 aged 74 years

And his remains

Rest in the adjoining church yard

This tablet is erected

in affectionate remembrance

By his sorrowing family

Memorial Type: 
Tablet
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.747197840005
Longitude: 
-8.7366387199803
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Title: 
GENERAL
Name: 
ST JOHN AUGUSTUS
Surname: 
CLERKE
Date of death - day: 
17
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1870
Age: 
74
Title: 
DOCTOR
Name: 
JONATHAN
Surname: 
CLERKE
Relationship with first person: 
father