THE REGIMENT LOST DURING THIS WAR BY DEATH IN THE FIELD,
FROM CASUALTIES OR FROM SICKNESS ATTENDING, AS UNDERNEATH.
LIEUT. R. DORAN (ADJUTANT)—14TH APRIL 1852. KILLED IN ACTION.
CAPTAIN A. GILLESPIE—11TH DECEMBER 1852.
CAPTAIN W. P. COCKBURN—20TH MARCH 1853. DIED OF HIS WOUNDS.
LT.-COLONEL C. J. COOTE—24TH MAY 1853.
LIEUT. F. LILLIE—6TH JUNE 1853.
27 NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
333 DRUMMERS AND PRIVATES.
On the floor, extending along the whole front of the Memorials of China, South Africa, Egypt, and Burma, is a black marble slab four feet wide, having four Irish Wolf Hounds in cut stone crouching thereon. Above this is a band of grey dressed stone two feet wide, with a black marble border along the top. A wide space of the wall above is faced with polished alabaster, and this is surmounted by a white marble border.
The words CHINA—S. AFRICA—BURMA are inset in gold on the black marble slab opposite the respective Monuments.
V. THE SOUTH AFRICAN WINDOW.
The picture at [p. 305] shows this Memorial directly in front. The window is a lancet, thirteen feet high and three feet six inches wide. It was designed by Miss Sara Purser, and made at her stained-glass works in Pembroke Street, Dublin. The figure in the centre represents King Cormac of Cashel—bishop, warrior, and scribe. Miss Purser writes: “He is standing leaning on his sword, with his warriors behind him; one holds his shield, and another a banner with a dragon of an interlacing Celtic design. At the top of the window two angels support his mitre. In a panel at the base, a mourning angel leans over a shield bearing a badge of the Regiment—the Lion of Nassau. On a scroll is the Regimental motto—‘Virtutis Namurcensis Præmium’—and the Harp and Crown; the Sphinx and the Dragon are also worked into the ornament.”
At the bottom of the window is inscribed on the glass:—
IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, AND MEN
OF THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT WHO FELL IN THE
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899-1902.
As the Depôt of the Regiment is at Clonmel, in the diocese of Cashel, the choice of the subject of the window is very appropriate, and Miss Purser has been most successful in introducing the various regimental devices into the design; the jewel-like colours of the glass are also admirable.
VI. THE CRIMEAN WINDOW.