1st Shropshire Light Infantry Born 27th April 1859 and died in Hong Kong of plague (Black Death) 4th June 1894 On the 23rd May 1894 he was the officer in charge of 300 men known as the Whitewash Brigade who duties were to carry out house to house searches in ten acres of Tai Ping Shan a squalid slum looking for sufferers and get them to military medical aid and clear corpses who were put onto cart to be taken away to be burnt. The soldiers themselves started to fall ill with the disease. Ten soldiers caught the plague and two died. Private Boliver whose grave was cleared when the Aberdeen tunnel was built at Capt George Colthurst Vesey who was buried in an isolated corner in the cemetery. He was due to retire at the end of his tour of duty
He was unmarried and lived in Lucan House, Dublin, Ireland with his parents. Son of Charles vesey Colthurst-Vesey and Annie Fraser His father gained the rank of Captain in the service of the 8th Hussars. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of County Dublin also he held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for County Dublin and then held the office of High Sheriff of County Dublin in 1908.
This memorial is situated in the entrance to the centrall hall of St Chad's church Shrewsbury, Shropshire
