Oh, how you've changed with every passing year
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Oh, how you've changed with every passing year
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 26 Mar 2012
Like the angel from Wim Wenders' film 'Wings of Desire', a son of early 19thC Glasgow seems to survey a city he would no longer recognise, if alive today. I couldn't discover his name without risking life and limb, as he overlooks a steep drop, but I could make out that he was a military man who fought during Massena's Retreat and at Campo Mayor, Fuentes de Oñoro and Badajoz in the Peninsular War. Thanks to Lairich Rig, I now know that he is Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Hope Pattison (1787-1835), Commander-in-Chief of the Second West India Regiment. A memorial to his nephew, Lieutenant Alexander Hope Pattison (1813-34) of the same regiment is nearby. Both died in the Bahamas and were buried in the same tomb in New Providence on the island of Nassau.
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Image Location
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55.861387
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-4.233671