GA-STNL-0356

Record Date: 
17 November 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

TO • THE * GLORY • OF • GOD AND • IN • MEMORY • OF • THE UNDERMENTIONED • OFFICERS OF THE • CONNAUGHT • RANGERS THIS • TABLET • IS • ERECTED • BY • THEIR BROTHER OFFICERS CAPTAIN • ROBERT • RICHARDS • CHALLENOR 1ST LANC FUS LATE 2ND c R. KILLED • IN • ACTION • AT • BOSCHBULT • S • AFRICA WHEN • SERVING • WITH • 28th -MI- MARCH • 31st • 1902 CAPTAIN • CAPEL • HANBURY • MESHAM WHO • DIED • AT • AHMEDNAG AR • INDIA AUGUST-5TH-1902 CAPTAIN * PERCY • THORNTON • HORTON WHO * DIED • SUDDENLY • AT • MULLINGAR APRIL* 15th-1904 LIEUT ARTHUR MAURICE LIVINGSTON WHO • WAS • KILLED • WHILE • HUNTING • AT • MULLINGAR FEBRUARY-15™-1905

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272739459982
Longitude: 
-9.0539896500029
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
CHALLENOR. MESHAM. HORTON and LIVINGSTON
Notes: 

This brass plaque, which is fastened to one of the piers also bears the maker's name and logo stamped in the lower right hand comer "GAWTHORP, Sc LONDON LATTEN". The regimental arms (a crowned harp) and motto (Quis Separabit) occur on the upper left hand side of the plaque and a border of sprigs of shamrocks also occurs. AND • IN• MEMORY- OF •THE UNDERMENTlONED-CFFICERS OF THE • COGlflfflOTT* MM This -Tablet- is • erected -by -their BROTHER • OFFICERS CAPTAIN • ROBERT • RICHARDS • CHALLENOH 5 1~ - LANC Fus '•LATE • 2s -C-R HILLED - IN -ACTION -AT-BOSCHBULT-S- AFRICA When • serving • with -28- -m-i-aarch -3iE • 1902 CAPTAIN • CAPEL • HANBURY • MESH AM WHO • DIED • AT-AHMEDNAGAR-INDIA AUGUST- 5- -1902 CAPTAIN-PERCY -ThoRNTCN-HORTON WHO • DID • SUDDENLY-AT • MULLINGAR Of APRIL * 15= -1904- Cat. No. 356. Most of the Connaught Rangers and other military people commemorated in the church are officers. This brass, with beautifully worked decoration, is by Gawthorp of London. Drawing by Jennifer McKenna.