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JAMES GEORGE SMITH NEILL of Dalry

by Geoff Crolley 3 Oct 2009

I was researching the Arthur Memorial UF Church, New Cumnock  when I came across JGS Neill of Dalry who was in the same regiment as John Findlay Arthur, Surgeon, CVO. 

Both were at the Seige of Lucknow during the Indian Uprising.

Brigadier-General James George Smith Neil  - Killed in action at Lucknow - 25th September 1857. Shot in the head at Khas Bazaar. 1st Madras Fusiliers. The rank and precedence of the wife of a K.C.B. was given to his widow, and memorials have been erected in India and at Ayr. 

"Historical record of the honourable East India Company's first Madras" ... By James George Smith Neill 1842, fifteen years before Lucknow.
Memorial at the Residency, Lucknow - "Sacred to the memory of Brigadier General J.G.S. Neill A.D.C. to the Queen. Col J.L. Stephenson c.o. Major S.G.C. Renaud Lieut. W.G. Groom. Lieut N.H. Arnold. Lieut A.A. Richardson. Lieut J.A. Chisholm Liuet F. Dobbs 352 non-commissioned officers, drummers and rank and file of the First Madras Fusiliers who fell during the supression of the rebellion in Bengal 1857-58."MONUMENT TO JAMES GEORGE SMITH NEILL, CB. WELLINGTON SQUARE, Ayr 

Description:
Matthew Noble (Sculptor), 1859. Stepped granite rectangular-plan plinth; bronze tablet to W face depicting battle scene; pulvinated bronze band; surmounting bronze figure facing E. W face reads "Erected by public subscription 1859." E face reads "Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Lieutenant Colonel in the Madras Army. Brigadier General in India. A brave, resolute, self-reliant soldier, universally acknowledged as the first who stemmed the torrent of rebellion in Bengal. He fell gloriously at the relief of Lucknow, 25th September 1857, aged 47."

http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/hsstart?P_HBNUM=21821

http://glosters.tripod.com/IM1.htm

http://en.allexperts.com/e/j/ja/james_george_smith_neill.htm

Any more on these two heroes please. Monument or plaques in Dalry?


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