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MAJ J BRIGGS & LT W BRIGGS, UPPER LARGO

 
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:56 am    Post subject: MAJ J BRIGGS & LT W BRIGGS, UPPER LARGO Reply with quote
Thanks to Mrs Aase Goldsmith for the photgraphs
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Plaque is situated within parish church Upper Largo. OS Map Ref No 424035








IN MEMORY OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BRIGGS/ INTERPRETER AND QUARTERMASTER/ 20TH REGT BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY/ MUCH ESTEEMED AND DEEPLY REGRETTED/ BY HIS BROTHER OFFICERS/ WHO ERECTED A TABLET/ TO HIS MEMORY AT MOORSHEDABAD/ WHERE HE DIED IN 1827/ ALSO OF/ MAJOR JAMES BRIGGS KH/ WHO SERVED/ IN THE 91ST 63RD AND 50TH REGIMENTS/ AND WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED/ AT THE SEIGE OF BERGEN-OP-ZOOM/ DIED 3RD APRIL 1855/ THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED AS A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION BY THEIR SURVIVING BROTHER DAVID BRIGGS COMMANDER RN
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