Capt. William Halsted Poole - Marbury, Cheshire East. - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

The memorial plaque is a marble tablet engraved with black lettering. It is mounted on the wall inside St Michael's Church in Marbury.
The inscription reads as follows;

"SACRED TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF
WILLIAM HALSTED POOLE ESQUIRE
OF TERRICK HALL, WHITCHURCH, SALOP
CAPTAIN HALF PAY. ROYAL ARTILLERY
BORN DECEMBER 12TH 1793. DIED JANUARY 28TH 1859
AGED 65 YEARS.

HE SERVED THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1814 AND 1815. INCLUDING THE
BOMBADRMENT OF THE FRENCH FLEET AT ANTWERP AND
THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, WHERE HE WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED.

FOR MANY YEARS HE FAITHFULLY FULFILLED THE DUTIES OF A
MAGISTRATE FOR THE COUNTIES OF CHESHIRE AND SALOP.
OF THE LATTER COUNTY HE WAS A DEPUTY LIEUTENANT.

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY HIS SURVIVING CHILDREN."

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