guava gardens

In Lucknow, as in other parts of the world, graves mean little to some people, but a search on the internet proves otherwise! What one will find on this blog isn't even 'a drop in the vast ocean' of tears that would have been shed if it were possible to calculate. The names, the sad poetry, quotes and expression of grief of the loved ones all being ground to dust. "...We always say that the history of a parish is in its graveyards..." Passage West (from a blog and book by Jim Murphy)

Friday, December 2, 2011

Maj William Hodson, Capt L DaCosta died 1858

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
CAPTN L. DACOSTA
56TH N.I. ATTACHED TO
FEROZEPORE REGIMENT OF SEIKS
WHO FELL IN THE FINAL ASSAULT
ON KAISER BAGH
THE 13TH MARCH 1858
AGED 32 YEARS

Brevet Major William Stephen Raikes Hodson (10 March 1821 – 11 March 1858) was a British leader of irregular light cavalry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (also known as India's First War of Independence or the Indian Mutiny). He was known as "Hodson of Hodson's Horse."

1857 graves at Dilkusha Palace ruins

Charles Keith Dashwood Nov 22, 1857

In Memory of Charles Keith Dashwood, Lieut 18th Reg BNI, son of Lt Col AW Dashwood, Killed at Dilkusha, Lucknow Nov 22, 1857, Aged 19 years.