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I append a copy of the inscriptions on the two monuments in question with a list of the other headstones in the same locality which may possibly prove useful for future reference.
Appended to the report was a copy of a list of gravestones within the British cemetery in Dinghai also recorded during the visit of the individual who wrote the report. It came as somewhat of a surprise to us to note the number of graves of wives and children of British soldiers as we had assumed that during the two short assaults on Zhoushan in 1842 and 1857, and the several years of occupation British soldiers were without their dependants, because of the remoteness of China from the more permanent British bases.
List of Monuments in British Graveyard
at Chusan
1. Monument to 55th Regt.
2. Captain Colin Campbell
3. Commander Harmer, H.M.S. Driver
4. Eliza Woods and infant son wife of Sergeant Woods.
5. Captain Hopton Steward of
ix Regt. Madras Native Infantry.
6. Wife of Quarter Master Perl Royal Irish Regiment.
7. Corporal M. Gleeson 98th Regt.
8. Sergt. Blake, 98th Regt.
9. Infant daughter of Sergt. Cobden
10. Mrs. Gregory, wife of Lieut Colonel Gregory 98th Regt.
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I append a copy of the inscriptions on the two monuments in question with a list of the other headstones in the same locality which may possibly prove useful for future reference.
Appended to the report was a copy of a list of gravestones within the British cemetery in Dinghai also recorded during the visit of the individual who wrote the report. It came as somewhat of a surprise to us to note the number of graves of wives and children of British sol- diers as we had assumed that during the two short assaults on Zhoushan in 1842 and 1857, and the several years of occupation British soldiers were without their dependants, because of the remoteness of China from the more permanent British bases.
List of Monuments in British Graveyard
at Chusan
1. Monument to 55th Regt.
2.
Captain Colin Campbell
3.
Commander Harmer, H.M.S. Driver
4.
Eliza Woods and infant son wife of Sergeant Woods.
5.
Captain Hopton Steward of
ix Regt. Madras Native Infantry.
6.
Wife of Quarter Master Perl Royal Irish Regiment.
7.
Corporal M. Gleeson 98th Regt.
8.
Sergt. Blake, 98th Regt.
9. Infant daughter of Sergt. Cobden
10.
Mrs. Gregory, wife of Lieut Colonel Gregory 98th Regt.
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