Howff Memorial 1451

Inscription.

 Sacred

To

The Memory of

WILLIAM FORREST ESQ

Lieut Colonel in the

HON E.I.C. Bengal Army

And for many years

Inspector of

Their Military Stores

In London

He died of cholera Morbus

On the 29th of July

In the fatal year of

1832

On his passage

From London to Dundee

Deeply Lamented by his

Family and Friends

Original Monument Inscription.

Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant Colonel William Forrest H.E.I.C.S. who departed this life on the 29th day of July 1832, aged 55 years.

Source: The Book of the Howff, ©Libraries, Leisure and Culture Dundee, Local History Centre & is reproduced with kind permission.