JOSEPH+BRADSHAW

Memorial Tablet Inscription:

Colonel Joseph Bradshaw Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, died in command of the 1st Battalion 60th Royal Rifles at Kussowlie, in the East Indies, on the 18th Day of October 1850, aged forty four years. Colonel Bradshaw commanded the 1st Battalion of the 60th Royal Rifle Corps during the second siege operations at Mooltan, commencing 28th December 1848, at the Battle of Goojerat, and with the Field Force on special service in pursuit of the fugitive Sikh Army, until its final surrender at Rawul Pindee. Commanded a Brigade of the Field Force west of the Indus in pursuit of the Afghan Army beyond the Khyber Pass. Commanded the Field Force during the operations against the Hill Tribes in the Eusofzie Country on the 11th and 14th December 1849, when the enemy amounting to five times that of the British Force, were routed with great loss, and the insurgent villages captured and destroyed. Commanded the Advance Guard both in going to and returning from Kohat, in the expedition against the Affreedi Tribe 1850. The Officers, Non Commissioned Officers, and Private Soldiers of the Battalion placed this tablet to his memory, deeply grieving.

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