Lieutenant Hector Maclane Drinking Fountain

DIFFERENT CATEGORY - a public drinking fountain (1880-81, by Browne and Co of Bristol) combined with a war memorial, found via a search of Historic England's own listings for the word 'murdered'. The Battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880, was a major British defeat during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in which Ayoub Khan's much larger Afghan force overwhelmed a British and Indian brigade. Lieutenant Hector Maclane of the Royal Horse Artillery was captured, according to the memorial, while trying to fetch water for wounded soldiers during or after the battle, and was killed some weeks later, on 1 September 1880, while held in Ayoub Khan's camp near Kandahar. The fountain was funded by public subscription alongside a memorial window in Thornbury's parish church. Not yet cross-checked against a fuller military-history account of Maclane or the aftermath of Maiwand - worth doing before treating the fountain's account as the complete story.