photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2011-12-5-45

Description

Photograph of the monument to Patrick Vans Agnew, Bengal Civil Service and Lt William Anderson, 1st Bombay Fusilier Regiment, old fort, Multan, 1918-1919. From a photograph album containing 78 photographs compiled by Sgt Reginald Alfred Bailey, 1/4th Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), India, 1917-1919. Associated with World War One, India (1914-1918) and India (1919-1939). Vans Agnew and Anderson went to Multan as envoys of the Lahore Darbar, but were murdered there on 18 April 1848, triggering the 2nd Sikh War and the siege of Multan. The memorial consists of a red sandstone obelisk on their grave.

Campaigns

World War One, India (1914-1918), India (1919-1939)

Events

Multan, Siege of, 1848-49 (2nd Sikh War 1848-1849)