NAM.1976-09-60-30

Photograph: Gravestone no. 2 A close up shot of the inscription on a gravestone which reads: "Sacred to the memory of the women and children of the late ill-fated 1st Comp. 6th Battalion Bengal Artillery who were slaughtered near this spot by Mutineers on 18th July 1857". This monument is erected by a non-commissioned officer who formerly belonged to the 1st Coy 6th Bn Bengal Artillery. Associated with Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). From an album of 37 photographs taken by a Cawnpore photographer, 1947.

Cawnpore, Siege of, 1857 (Indian Mutiny 1857-1859)