Gravestone no. 4
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.1976-09-60-36

Description

Photograph: Gravestone no. 4 A close up shot of a gravestone, the inscription reads: "Sacred to the memory of Sergeant J. Kelly, H. Donnaughey, Corporal J. Lankham, W. Smith, Private J. Gee of the Band of the 64th Regiment who died at Cawnpore between the months of September and Novermber 1857. Deeply regretted by their comrades who have erected this stone. Also of B. Fitzpatrick and D. Muir who fell at the action of Cawnpore on th 28th November 1857". Associated with 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot. Associated with Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). From an album of 37 photographs taken by a Cawnpore photographer, 1947.

Events

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

Associated collection