GA-STNL-0372

Record Date: 
23 December 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

UNDER THESE COLOURS DURING THE WAR WITH RUSSIA 1854-55-56 WERE KILLED IN ACTION DIED OF WOUNDS OR PERISHED OF DISEASE. Major W • Mackie. Captain H • W • Grogan. Major W • Norton. Lieu1 & Adj1 A • D • Maule. Major E • Bayley. Lieutenant E • H • Webb. Captain E • Corbett. Lieutenant H • B • Preston. Captain J • Wray. Ass. Surg.n F • Y • Shegog. and 466 Noncommissioned Officers Drummers and Privates.

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.27272663
Longitude: 
-9.0537133799738
Additional details
References: 
For H.B. Preston see The Galway Vindicator. May 12th. (1855). "Died. Preston, Horatio Berthon; April 14th from a rifle shot, whilst in discharge of his duty in the trenches before Sebastopol, in the 18th. year of his age, Horatio Berthon Preston, Lieut. 88th. Reg. (Connaught Rangers). Youngest son of William Robert Preston, Minestead Lodge, New Forest, Hants".
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
BAYLEY. CORBETT. GROGAN. MACKIE. MAULE. NORTON. PRESTON. SHEGOG. WEBB and WRAY
Notes: 

The monument is a brass plaque on a wooden backing. The lettering is in both pseudo-Gothic and Roman script. The regimental crest of the Connaught Rangers (a crowned harp surrounded by shamrock sprigs) occurs at the top along with the legend "Connaught Rangers" and the motto "QUIS SEPARABIT". Between the crest and motto is a sphinx, and the word "EGYPT". The two cannons in Eyre Square (In the J.F. Kennedy Memorial Park section of the Square) are a 'souvenir' of the siege in the Crimean War. For Major McKie see also Nos. 175 and 281 (a plaque to the Crimean War dead).