Person’s Profile
Lieutenant George Dobson Willoughby(1828/9-11 May 1857)
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The text of his memorial in Bath Abbey is at http://glosters.tripod.com/IM8.htm'Sacred to the memory of George Dobson Willoughby, 1st Lieut. Bengal Artillery and Commissary of Ordnance at Delhi, aged 28 years. As a brave and zealous soldier he stood firm in defence of his post intrusted to him, and when resistance failed blew up the Delhi Magazine on 11 May 1857 to prevent its falling into the hands of the mutineers and rebels. Burnt and wounded he subsequently fell a prey to insurgents. This tablet is erected by his sorrowing relatives.'
CMY included his story in A Book of Golden Deeds, having read about him in The Times.