TO / MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES GEORGE GORDON, C.B. / WHO AT ALL TIMES AND EVERYWHERE, GAVE HIS STRENGTH TO THE WEAK, HIS / SUBSTANCE TO THE POOR, HIS SYMPATHY TO THE SUFFERING, HIS HEART TO GOD. / BORN AT WOOLWICH 28 JANUARY 1833. / SLAIN AT KHARTOUM 26 JANUARY 1885. / HE SAVED AN EMPIRE BY HIS WARLIKE GENIUS, HE RULED VAST PROVINCES / WITH JUSTICE, WISDOM AND POWER. / AND LASTLY OBEDIENT TO HIS SOVEREIGNS COMMAND, HE DIED IN THE HEROIC / ATTEMPT TO SAVE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM IMMINENT AND DEADLY PERIL. / "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN MAY LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR / HIS FRIENDS." (S.JOHN XV.13.) / THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY HIS ONLY SURVIVING BROTHER, WHOSE ELDEST / SON ALSO PERISHED IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY, AS A MIDSHIPMAN IN H.M.S. / "CAPTAIN", AND IS COMMEMORATED WITH OTHERS IN THE ADJOINING RECESS.', brass memorial panel.SIR HENRY WILLIAM GORDON,.K.C.B. THE SURVIVING BROTHER OF GENERAL GORDON, / DEPARTED THIS LIFE 22ND OCTOBER 1887. IN THE 70TH YEAR OF HIS AGE AND 53RD OF PUBLIC SERVICE.GORDONIN THE SCHOOL AT KHARTOUMSEMPER.FIDELIS.CHARLES GEORGE / GORDON
