Robert Provo Norris, St Edmund Church, Kessingland, Suffolk

This is one of two plaques on the north wall in memory of Robert Provo Norris.

 

SACRED

TO THE MEMORY OF

ROBERT PROVO NORRIS,

ELDEST SON OF THE VICAR, THE REV. D. G. NORRIS,

LATE A LIEUT. IN HER MAJESTY'S 6TH OR ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE

REGIMENT, WHO DIED OF A WOUND, ON THE 14TH OCTOBER 1851,

RECEIVED WHILST GALLANTLY LEADING HIS COMPANY

INTO ACTION AGAINST THE KAFFIRS, DURING

THE WAR THEN GOING ON AT THE

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

AGED 25 YEARS.

Done