Rollo Gillespie Sir Robert Rollo Gillespie ( 1766 – 1814 ) was an officer in the British army . Early life . Robert Rollo Gillespie grew up in County Down , in what was then the Kingdom of Ireland , after turning down the opportunity of going to Cambridge University he joined the 3rd Irish Horse as a Cornet . In 1786 he was involved in a duel in which he killed the opposing duellist . Fleeing to Scotland , he stayed briefly and then returned voluntarily to stand trial in 1788 . The verdict was ' justifiable homicide ' and Gillespie was acquitted . Active service . In 1792 he transferred to the Light Dragoons with the rank of lieutenant and soon embarked with his new regiment for Jamaica . However , his ship was shipwrecked at the Portuguese islands of Madeira forcing Gillespie to come ashore by a small boat and he then contracted yellow fever in his first night on the island . After recovery , he rejoined his regiment and fought against the forces of the French republic in the Caribbean at Tiburon Peninsula , Port - au - Prince , Fort Bizotten and Fort de l ' Hôpital . Being made Adjutant - General of St . Domingo , he was at home alone when eight men broke into his house to burgle it . Armed only with his sword , he killed six of them while the other two fled . India , Java , Sumatra , Nepal . In 1804 he was acquitted by a court martial of suspected involvement in a fraud scandal after which he transferred to India , travelling overland through Hamburg , Greece and Baghdad to take command of the 19th Light Dragoons . During the Vellore Mutiny of 1806 Gillespie set out with a relief force from the 19th within a quarter of an hour of the alarm being raised . Dashing ahead with twenty men , he saw the surviving British troops , about sixty men of the 69th commanded by NCOs and two assistant surgeons , holding the ramparts but out of ammunition . As he was unable to gain entry through the defended gate ( which was controlled by the mutineers ) , Gillespie climbed the wall onto the battlements to take command with the aid of a rope and a sergeant ' s sash which was lowered to him . To gain time for the rest of the 19th to arrive he led the 69th in a bayonet - charge along the ramparts , engaging in close combat with the enemy . With the rest of the 19th now arrived Gillespie ordered them to blow in the gates with their galloper gun s and then made a second charge with the 69th clearing the space just inside the gate to permit the cavalry to deploy . The 19th and Madras Cavalry then charged and slaughtered any enemy who stood in their way . In 1811 he commanded forces in the Invasion of Java and took the city of Batavia . He was subsequently appointed Commander of the Forces in British - occupied Java and in 1812 he deposed the Sultan of Palembang in Sumatra , and took the royal Javanese city of Yogyakarta . On his return to India he speared a roaming tiger that was prowling on Bangalore racecourse . Two years later , at the beginning of the Anglo - Nepalese War , he led a column to attack a Nepalese hill fort at Kalunga , in the Battle of Nalapani , repulsing a Gurkha counter attack . Gillespie then tried to follow them back into the fort with a dismounted party of the 8th Dragoons . Although this failed , Gillespie renewed the attack with companies of the 53rd Foot . Thirty yards from the fort he shouted the words , " One shot more for the honour of Down " and charged with the men when a Nepalese sharpshooter shot him through the heart and he died within seconds of falling . With his death the attack faltered causing the next senior officer to call a retreat . Memorial . A large statue of Major General Sir Rollo Gillespie was constructed under the oversight of John Fraser , the first County Surveyor of Down , and was unveiled on 24 June 1845 ( St . John ' s Day ) in the Town Square of Comber . Fifty lodges of the Masonic Order were present , in what is believed to be the biggest Masonic gathering in Irish history . It was calculated that 25 , 000 to 30 , 000 people crowded into the town to witness the ceremony . The column is 55 feet high . At the foot of the column are many Masonic symbols and his famous last words " One shot more for the honour of Down "