‘Memorial of the Cawnpur Massacre over the well at Cawnpur’
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.2003-02-301-107
Description
Photograph: ‘Memorial of the Cawnpur Massacre over the well at Cawnpur’. From a photograph album of 116 photographs compiled by Lt Hugh Stephenson Turnbull, 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force) in India and Egypt, 1903-1906. The memorial by Carlo Marochetti erected at Cawnpore (now Kanpur) in the 1860s. The memorial was subsequently moved to the Memorial Church at Cawnpore. Associated with the massacre at Cawnpore, Indian Mutiny (1857-1859).
Events
Cawnpore, Siege of, 1857 (Indian Mutiny 1857-1859)
Associated collection
