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Location
At the English Heritage store, Fort Brockhurst, Gosport [EH Ref No. 87900132]. It was originally sited on the southern wall of the nave beneath the most westerly window.
 
Description
The memorial is in the form of a metal plate which is now very dirty and only barely legible.
 

Memorial
Memorial to Lieut. Gen. Lord Frederick FitzClarence		 Inscription
TO THE GLORY OF GOD.
IN HONOUR AND LOVED MEMORY OF
LIEUT GENL LORD FREDERICK FITZ-CLARENCE
SON OF KING WILLIAM IV
ENTERED THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1814
AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN,
BECAME A LIEUT-COLONEL 1824.
COMMANDED THE 11TH. REGIMENT OF INFANTRY
AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE 7TH. ROYAL FUSILIERS.
AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THEIR MAJESTIES
THE KING WILLIAM IV 1831 AND QUEEN VICTORIA.
KNIGHT OF THE GRAND CROSS OF HANOVER
AND OF THE RED EAGLE OF PERSIA.
LIEUT-GOVERNOR OF PORTSMOUTH FROM 1847 TO 1851.
COLONEL OF THE 36 REGT.
APPOINTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF HER MAJESTIES FORCES
AND OF THE HONOURABLE
EAST INDIA COMPANIES ARMY IN BOMBAY 1852.
WHO THROUGH HIS FORTY YEARS OF SERVICE
APPROVED HIMSELF TO ALL WHO SERVED UNDER HIM.
THE TRUE SOLDIER AND THE SOLDIERS FRIEND
WHO IN THE FAITHFUL FULFILMENT OF HIS DUTY
IN THAT POST TO WHICH HE HAD BEEN CALLED.
DIED AT POORUNDHUR IN INDIA OCT 30 1854 AGED 54 YEARS.
THIS WINDOW IN THE SOLDIERS CHURCH
IS DEDICATED BY AUGUSTA FITZ-CLARENCE (HIS WIDOW)
ANNO DOMINI 1873.

 

Further Information
The 1873 Guide to the Church paraphrases the plaque quoted above, and in the process adds further information. The complete text from the Guide runs as follows:-
 
"This window is dedicated to the Glory of God and in memory of Lieut-General Lord Frederick Fitz-Clarence G.C.H., son of King William IV, born 1799; married 1821, Lady Augusta, daughter of the 4th Earl of Glasgow; entered the army in 1814; became a Lieut-General and Colonel of the 36th Regiment in 1851; appointed Commander-in-Chief at Bombay in 1851; was raised to the rank of a Marquis's son in 1831; appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland; was Grand Master of the Freemasons of Scotland. Lord Frederick was Lieutenant Governor of Portsmouth from 1847-1851, and so endeared himself to the inhabitants, that, on his appointment as Commander-in-Chief in Bombay, they erected a monument to him, as an expression of their gratitude. On the west side of it are the following words:-
'To Lieut-General Lord Frederick Fitz-Clarence, G.C.H. this column is erected by the inhabitants of Portsmouth, to mark their sense of the many services rendered to the Borough during his command of this Garrison.'"
 
[This monument is believed to be the one at the junction of Pembroke Road and Gordon Road. See the Old Portsmouth section]