NAM.1971-02-33-495-25

Wounded Officers at Simla. Coloured lithograph from 'The Campaign in India 1857-58 from drawings made during the eventful period of the Great Mutiny, illustrating the military operations before Delhi and its neighbourhood'. A series of 26 coloured lithographs by W Simpson, E Walker and others, after G F Atkinson, published by Day andSon, 1857-1858. Associated with the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). The British hill station at Simla was used by the Bengal Army as a retreat for sick and injured men. Its climate was more favourable than that of the burning plains below. When news of the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859) reached the hill stations the troops who were fit enough to march immediately departed for the siege of Delhi. Many of the soldiers wounded or taken ill at Delhi later returned to hill stations like Simla to recuperate.

Indian Mutiny (1857-1859)