Location

The plaque is on the back of one of the choristers stalls in the chancel.
South side, back row, ninth from the west end.
 

Memorial
Plaque to Lieut-General, The Hon. Sir George Cathcart K.C.B.
 
Cathcart's Hill Cemetery
The graves of the Generals on Cathcarts Hill
Cathcart's Hill Cemetery, 1855
From the Roger Fenton Catalogue
The Library of Congress
Rep.No. LC-USZC4-9222
 
Inscription
LIEUTENANT GENERAL
THE HON. SIR GEORGE
CATHCART K.C.B.
KILLED AT INKERMAN
NOVEMBER 5 1854
AGE 60 DD:
THE EARL CATHCART.

 

Further Information (From the 1873 Guide to the Church)
 
Lieut-General Cathcart, son of William, Earl Cathcart was born in 1794, joined the 2nd Life Guards when he was 16 years of age and fought with the grand army in the campaigns of 1812 and 1813 as Aide-de-Camp to Lord Cathcart; was engaged at Lutzen 3rd May, Bautzen 20th and 21st May, Dresden 28th August, Leipsic 18th and 19th October, 1813; Brienne 1st February, Bar-sur Aube 21st March and Fere Champanoise 25th March 1814.
Served also the campaign of 1815 as Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Wellington, and was present at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. In 1837, he proved himself an energetic and efficient officer in quelling the outbreak in Canada. In 1852 he was made Governor of the Cape of Good Hope with command of the forces, and brought to a successful end the harassing Kafir war. He returned to England in time to take command of a division during the Crimean War, and was deemed one of the ablest and most active of the generals of the army in the east. His bravery was ever conspicuous, especially so at the battle of Inkerman, when he fell a hero, beloved and respected by all who knew him.
 
He is buried at the Cathcart's Hill Cemetery above Sebastopol (see photo).
 
See also www.crimeantexts.org.uk/topics/cathcart.html, which describes in more detail Cathcart's involvement in the Crimean and his eventual death.
 
And www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/cathcart.html for a biography of Cathcart.
 

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