Note 34 — HISTORICAL RECORD (continued 3)

Brevet Major John Wynne Fletcher was senior captain of the regiment, in which he had served most zealously twenty-five years, and he was sincerely lamented by his brother officers. He was aide-de-camp to Lieut.-General Sir Henry Warde, K.C.B., commander of the forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands, who followed his remains to the grave, and directed a marble tablet, with the following inscription, to be placed in the church at Bridgetown;—

SACRED TO THE MEMORY of a good Christian, a gallant soldier, and an honest man, in life beloved and in death lamented. Near this spot rest the mortal remains of Brevet Major JOHN WYNNE FLETCHER, Captain in the Fourth, or the King's Own Regiment of Foot, And Aide-de-camp to Lieut.-General Sir Henry Warde, Who departed this life on the 24th of October, 1824, Aged 39 years.