Alexander Shand Monument

Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 4 Mar 2015

On the left-hand of these two panels is an inscription reading, "To the memory of Alexander Shand, second son of George Shand and Agnes Littlejohn in Parkdargie, Colonel of the Royal Field Artillery, who died on the 7th of April 1803 aged 72 years. " The right-hand panel reads, "Colonel Alexander Shand, to whom this Pyramid is erected, was a striking Instance of the Efficacy of strong natural Powers and vigorous Perseverance. His Parents soon learned to appreciate his Genius and bestowed upon him so liberal an Education that, during several of the early Years of his Life, he was enabled to act as Instructor of Youth. The natural Bias of his Mind, however, speedily became too powerfulto permit him to rest in the Obscurity to which Circumstances seemed to have consigned him, and some time previous to the Year 1760 he entered as a Private in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Soon thereafter he became a non-commissioned Officer, and was promoted by His Majesty to the rank of Lieutenant Fireworker, in which capacity he gallantly distinguished himself in several Actions in Germany, and received a severe Gun-shot Wound in the Foot at the Battle of Corbach on the 1pth of July 1760. he was also wounded and Brandywine River in America on the 11th of September 1777. His Services at Gibraltar were held in high Estimation during the memorable Siege of that Fortress in the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, under the Command of the Right Hon Lord Heathfield, whose Confidence and Regard he enjoyed in an eminent Degree and having thus during a long Course of Years signalised himself in the Service of his Country and attained the Rank of Colonel, this gallant Soldier died on his Estate of Templeland and was buried in the Churchyard of this Parish." See also Image The monument is a Category B Listed building.

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