3-074-547 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Tablet to the late Commander Wyatt Rawson, R.N. killed at Tel-El-Kebir, 1883. '...this gallant officer [died]...on board the hospital ship Carthage, at Alexandria, from the wounds he had received in the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. Lieutenant Rawson...served with the Naval Brigade in the Ashantee War; he was then mentioned in Sir Garnet Wolseley's despatches, and was promoted, for his conduct at the battle of Amoaful. He afterwards served in the North Pole exploring expedition of Sir George Nares, and...was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert; but, having joined the Alexandra, the flag-ship of the Mediterranean Squadron, took part in the actions by land and sea in the Egyptian campaign. He was appointed Naval Aide-de-Camp to General Sir Garnet Wolseley, and actually performed the office of guide to the British Army in its midnight march to Tel-el-Kebir on Sept. 13, but received his mortal wound in the short conflict that took place in storming the trenches. He was promoted to the rank of Commander before he died. Our Engraving represents the Memorial Tablet which has been erected in the Garrison Chapel at Portsmouth, by Lord Wolseley, the Duke of Teck...The sculptor of the tablet is Mr. Physick, of Marylebone-road'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.