The plaque is on the back of one of the choristers stalls in the chancel.
North side, back row, tenth from the west end.
GEORGE NAPIER K.C.B.
DIED SEPT 8 1855 AGE 71.
DD: HIS CHILDREN.
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Lieut-General Napier accompanied the expedition to Sweden and from thence to Portugal in 1808, when he became Aide-de-Camp to Sir John Moore, in which capacity he served the Corunna Campaign, and was at the battle of Corunna, and the actions which preceded it, served afterwards with the 52nd in the campaigns of 1809-10 and 11, when he was made Brevet-Major - he and his brother William being two out of eleven chosen by Lord Wellington on the occasion of Massena's retreat.
He gained the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel for leading the storming party at the smaller breach of Cuidad Rodrigo, where he lost his right arm, having had the same arm broken at the action of Casal Nova, and again wounded during the siege of Cuidad Rodrigo, two days before he lost it in the breach.
He was also wounded at the battle of Busaco, while in the act of striking with his sword a French Grenadier at the head of the enemy's attacking column.
In 1813 he rejoined the 52nd, and was present at the battle of Orthes, the action of Tarbos, and the battle of Toulouse. Sir George was made K.C.B. and received the gold medal for Cuidad Rodrigo; and the silver war medal and three clasps. He was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape Colonies.
[From the 1873 Guide to the Church]
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