| |
| | Memorials and Monuments in St Simon's Church (Colonel George Gawler KH) |
 | | GEORGE GAWLER was born on the 2Ist July 1795, and came of a fighting family; his father, Captain Samuel Gawler of the 73rd Highlanders, having been killed at the storming of Fort Maggerall (Southern India) in 18O4, and his grandfather, John Gawler, having been present at the battle of Quebec in 1759. |
 | | Gawler was promoted Lieutenant 12th May 1812, and served with the Regiment until the end of the war in 1814. |
 | | After this, Colonel Gawler settled down at Southsea, where he died in 1869, and was buried, on the 13th May. Five children survived him, one of whom—his eldest daughter—married in 1847 George Hall, Governor of the Juvenile Reformatory Prison, Parkhurst, and formerly Lieutenant 52nd Light Infantry. |
| www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk /churches/st_simons/gawler.htm (1951 words) |
|