One of the lesser known military sepulchral monuments at the Saluting Battery in Valletta is to be restored to its former glory by Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna.
The monument is of Colonel Henry Anderson-Morshead, acting governor of the islands and commanding royal engineer Malta. He was responsible for the modernisation and adaptation of the Order defences after the islands became a British protectorate as a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1814.
His monument was erected by his wife a year after his death. It survived almost intact till the Second World War but a good part of it was cleared after the war leaving just the pedestal.
FWA is currently trying to locate the original inscription. The plans are to rebuild the monument as it originally stood.