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Captain George Duff

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Location: The crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral, London

Type: Monument

Material: Marble

Date of death: 21 October 1805
Place of death: Trafalgar
Where buried: At sea, off Cape Trafalgar

Description: A marble wall plaque in bas relief, depicting a sarcophagus showing a left profile of Duff, draped with oak leaves. To the left Britannia is supported by a mourning lion, and to the right a sailor kneels in tears, bearing a flag.

Sculptor: J Bacon Jnr.

Dimensions: 350 cm × 261 cm.

Transcription

erected at the public expense

to the memory of

CAPTAIN GEORGE DUFF,

who was killed the xxist of octr

MDCCCV.

commanding the mars,

in the battle of TRAFALGAR,

in the forty-second year of his age

and the twenty-ninth of his service.

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