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Memorials

Paul Chamberlain, Research Officer, Napoleonic Association


Ray Cusick has sent me a copy of The King's Royal Rifle Corps Association Newsletter, published in March 1994, giving an account of a memorial to General Craufurd erected in October of last year. A plaque was erected on the town wall of Ciudad Rodrigo, near the site of the Small Breach where Craufurd had been killed. The inscription on the plaque, in Spanish and English reads: To the memory of Major General Robert Craufurd and those of the 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry and the 95th Rifles of the Light Division, which he commanded with such distinction, and of their comrades of the 60th, all of whom fell in the storming of the breaches, through which Ciudad Rodrigo was liberated on 19th January 1812. This plaque is erected by their heirs, the Royal Green Jackets, mindful of the historic efforts by the Spanish and British to free the Peninsula 1808-1813. The Royal Green Jackets badge heads the inscription, while the Ciudad Rodrigo's emblem is below.

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