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A Punjab Force Memorial

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Oxford

1980 - 1989

This pulpit was erected in St Paul's in 1861 in memory of Captin Robert Fitzgerald by friends and brother officers. It remained the Cathedral pulpit for more then a hundred years being replaced by the present pulpit in 1964. Captain Robert Fitzgerald raised the Scinde Camel Corps in 1843 and command it in 1849, during the Scinde Campaign, when he raised and commanded the 5th Cavalry of the Punjab Frontier Force, to which Force the 6th Punjab Infantry, formally the Scinde Camel Corps, was joined in 1851; both units maintain their former identity in the present Pakistan Army, with a Frontier Force title. Captain Fitzgerald's premature death occured in 1853 during a voyage from India, when he was suffering from severe sunstroke.