Capt Charles Strangeways Torriano - All Saints - East Budleigh, Devon - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Memorial plaque to Capt. Charles Strangeways Torriano, at the west end of the south aisle, All Saints' church, East Budleigh. It consists of a rectangular brass plaque with black lettering and occasional red first letter. The border has a black trim with a thinner black line on the inside.

The inscription reads -
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND TO THE MEMORY OF
CHARLES STRANGEWAYS TORRIANO
CAPTn ROYAL ARTILLERY.
ELDEST SON OF
CAPTn CHARLES TORRIANO
XXXth REGt OF FOOT,
AND OF HESTER DE LA FAUSILLE HIS WIFE
BORN AT MOUNT ROY, WELLS, SOMERSET
13th DECr 1790.
DIED AT BUDLEIGH SALTERTON
9th NOVr 1874.
HE SERVED IN THE EXPEDITION TO WALCHEREN
AND WAS PRESENT AT THE SIEGE OF FLUSHING.
ALSO OF
MARY ELIZABETH TORRIANO
HIS WIFE, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF
W. DOWNES PHILLOTT ESQ.
FORMERLY OF THE XXth REGt OF FOOT.
AND LIEUT-COLONEL OF
THE WEST MENDIP MILITIA
AND OF
HENRIETTA GRACE PHILLPS, HIS WIFE
BORN AT WINTERHEAD SOMERSET
3rd DECr 1800
DIED AT BUDLEIGH SALTERTON
8th FEBy 1872.
__________________
THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE WITH THE GREATEST AFFECTION
AND GRATITUDE BY THEIR SURVIVING CHILDREN
COLONEL TORRIANO AND CAROLINE TORRIANO.

Capt. Charles Strangeways Torriano served in the expedition to Walcheren (an unsuccessful British expedition to the Netherlands in 1809 during the Napoleonic war, intended to open another front in the Austrian Empire's struggle with France during the War of the Fifth Coalition.) and was present at the siege of Flushing (visit link)

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