CO-TMGY-0117

Record Date: 
2 July 2013
Graveyard: 
Templetrine
Exact wording of epitaph: 

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MAJOR WILLIAM GOUGH 
68THLIGHT INFANTRY
WHO DIED HAVING SERVED
HIS KING & COUNTRY
26 YEARS
IN
EUROPE,ASIA AND AMERICA
HAVING FOUGHT UNDER
WELLINGTON
AT SALAMANSA.VITTORIA
WHERE HE WAS SEVERLEY WOUNDED
HIT BY GRAPE SHOT IN THE LEFT LEG.
WAS WRECKED
IN THE ALBION, AMERICAN VESSEL
NEAR GARRETSTOWN
ON THE MORNING OF THE 22ND APRIL
1822
IN THE 44TH YEAR OF HIS AGE

Whatever The Lord Pleased That He Did In
Heaven And  On Earth In, The Seas
And All Deep Places

                                                                                                  Psalm  135: Verse 6.

 

Memorial Type: 
Table tomb
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.662685
Longitude: 
-8.6142002777778
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
MAYJOR
Name: 
WILLIAM
Surname: 
GOUGH
Date of death - day: 
22
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1822
Age: 
44
Notes: 

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Record of major Gough