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MEMOIR OF GENERAL SIR ROBERT 
The mastery of mind over matter was always most remarkable with Sir Robert 
Gardiner. A strong instance of this occurred on the occasion of the first Corps 
dinner, when, although suffering from fever and gout, he left his bed (at the age of 
80), to fulfil what he conceived a duty in meeting the Duke of Cambridge as 
Colonel of the Regiment, and in his weak state bore the brunt of representing 
the Regiment on this occasion. 
The following General Regimental Order which was published after Sir Robert 
Gardiner’s death, by command of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, is 
a just tribute to Sir Robert’s memory, and recognises the high chivalrous feeling 
which was so striking a feature in his character. 
Hoese Guaeds, S.W., 
8th November, 1864. 
GENERAL REGIMENTAL ORDER. 
His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, with the con¬ 
currence of the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for War, has been pleased 
to give instructions that the name of General Sir Robert William Gardiner, 
G.C.B., K.C.H., be added to the names inscribed on the Memorial Pillar in the 
Rotunda at Woolwich. 
His Royal Highness deems it unnecessary to recite to the Royal Artillery, the 
special actions in which this distinguished Officer, in the great Wars of the com¬ 
mencement of the present century, acquired his own Military reputation, and 
contributed with many gallant comrades to raise the fame of the British Artillery; 
but it is the desire of His Royal Highness that services so well remembered, a 
long period of service subsequently devoted to strenuous exertions for the benefit 
of his Corps, a personal character conspicious for its dignity and chivalry, should 
be permanently and publicly commemorated among those of other departed 
Artillerymen, whose brilliant military services or scientific reputation has led to 
their selection for a similar honor. 
By Command of 
Field Marshal H.R.H The DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, K.G., 
Colonel of the Royal Artillery ; 
G. GAMBIER, 
Deputy Adjutant-General. 
No memoir of Sir Robert Gardiner, however short, would be complete without 
some allusion to his writings. They number eighteen in all, the last, which is 
a posthumous work on the subject of the Holy Communion, being left as a fare¬ 
well offering to the officers and men of the aripy and navy. The majority of his 
writings had but one object; they were written in the interest of the Corps, with 
