Indian Mutiny Perthshire Volunteers Monument

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6399 PEMBROKE ROAD 774-1/12/79 (North East side) 25/09/72 Indian Mutiny Perthshire Volunteers Monument

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Monument. c1869. Marble obelisk with plinth, granite curb surrounding base with earth end planted filling. Commemorates the members of the 90th Light Infantry Perthshire Volunteers who were killed in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 or died in India between 1859 and 1869. Inscription reads "In memory of Officers (named) and 312 non-commissioned officers, buglers and privates of the 90th Light Infantry Perthshire Volunteers who fell during the mutiny in India in the defence, the relief, the capture of Lucknow and in the subsequent operations to the end of the war, 1859 - also to the memory of other officers who died during the service of the 90th Light Infantry in India from the end of the war, 1859 to 1869". (Berridge DW: Monument and Memorials in the City of Portsmouth: 1984-: 9).

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