Cenotaph
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In Memory of
Lt.-Col. R. E. Chambers,.....Surgeon E. F. Harpur,
Capt. E. M. Blair,................Lieut. H. Y. Bazett,
Capt. J. Bott,.....................Lieut. L. H. Hardiman,
Capt. P. S. Hamilton,..........Veterinary Surgeon J. Willis,
Bt. - Capt. F. Collyer,..........Riding Master R. Quantrill,
Of the 5th Regiment Bengal Cavalry, who, with almost the entire of the 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th troops of the corps, fell in gallant but hopeless conflict in the disastrous retreat from Cabool, between the 6th and 13th of January 1842.
The surviving officers of the regiment erect this tablet. The lamented brave whose deaths it records, though greatly outnumbered by a most treacherous foe in snowy wastes and rugged defiles, for several days and nights together, without the shelter even of a tent, and suffering from the extremes of cold, hunger and thirst, in the depth of an Affghan winter, sold their lives dearly as became British soldiers. "How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished." - II Sam. v. 2, 7."
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In Memory of
Lt.-Col. R. E. Chambers,.....Surgeon E. F. Harpur,
Capt. E. M. Blair,................Lieut. H. Y. Bazett,
Capt. J. Bott,.....................Lieut. L. H. Hardiman,
Capt. P. S. Hamilton,..........Veterinary Surgeon J. Willis,
Bt. - Capt. F. Collyer,..........Riding Master R. Quantrill,
Of the 5th Regiment Bengal Cavalry, who, with almost the entire of the 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th troops of the corps, fell in gallant but hopeless conflict in the disastrous retreat from Cabool, between the 6th and 13th of January 1842.
The surviving officers of the regiment erect this tablet. The lamented brave whose deaths it records, though greatly outnumbered by a most treacherous foe in snowy wastes and rugged defiles, for several days and nights together, without the shelter even of a tent, and suffering from the extremes of cold, hunger and thirst, in the depth of an Affghan winter, sold their lives dearly as became British soldiers. "How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished." - II Sam. v. 2, 7."
Cenotaph
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In Memory of
Lt.-Col. R. E. Chambers,.....Surgeon E. F. Harpur,
Capt. E. M. Blair,................Lieut. H. Y. Bazett,
Capt. J. Bott,.....................Lieut. L. H. Hardiman,
Capt. P. S. Hamilton,..........Veterinary Surgeon J. Willis,
Bt. - Capt. F. Collyer,..........Riding Master R. Quantrill,
Of the 5th Regiment Bengal Cavalry, who, with almost the entire of the 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th troops of the corps, fell in gallant but hopeless conflict in the disastrous retreat from Cabool, between the 6th and 13th of January 1842.
The surviving officers of the regiment erect this tablet. The lamented brave whose deaths it records, though greatly outnumbered by a most treacherous foe in snowy wastes and rugged defiles, for several days and nights together, without the shelter even of a tent, and suffering from the extremes of cold, hunger and thirst, in the depth of an Affghan winter, sold their lives dearly as became British soldiers. "How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished." - II Sam. v. 2, 7."
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In Memory of
Lt.-Col. R. E. Chambers,.....Surgeon E. F. Harpur,
Capt. E. M. Blair,................Lieut. H. Y. Bazett,
Capt. J. Bott,.....................Lieut. L. H. Hardiman,
Capt. P. S. Hamilton,..........Veterinary Surgeon J. Willis,
Bt. - Capt. F. Collyer,..........Riding Master R. Quantrill,
Of the 5th Regiment Bengal Cavalry, who, with almost the entire of the 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th troops of the corps, fell in gallant but hopeless conflict in the disastrous retreat from Cabool, between the 6th and 13th of January 1842.
The surviving officers of the regiment erect this tablet. The lamented brave whose deaths it records, though greatly outnumbered by a most treacherous foe in snowy wastes and rugged defiles, for several days and nights together, without the shelter even of a tent, and suffering from the extremes of cold, hunger and thirst, in the depth of an Affghan winter, sold their lives dearly as became British soldiers. "How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished." - II Sam. v. 2, 7."
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Ref: The Bengal Obituary: Or, a Record to Perpetuate the Memory of Departed Worth - 1851
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