Tomb inscription · 1853
David Ogilvy Wedderburn
- Date
- 2 September 1853
- Place
- Stephens
- Plot
- Serial 2276
- Inscription
- Lieutenant David Ogilvy Wedderburn, 37th Grenadiers, aged 27 years.
- Notes
- He was killed by an elephant at Tippacaudoo, 22 miles from Ootacamund on the Ghaut road to Mysore. The encounter is described in Pollok's 'Fifty years Reminiscences of India', p. 171-2. See also Leveson. He was the Brother of James Alex. Wedderburn, M.C.S., born 1825, died at Chingleput 1854. (See No. 1434.)