The Archive · 1908

Commissariat Staff Corps

Army Hospital Corps.

Military Stores Department who died at Shanghai during ite occupation of 1862-:

Next to this copy.is a larger tablet Becred to the memory of No. 5 Company, H. B. M.'s 67th Regiment, who died daring Re stay of the Regiment in Shanghai Ist May, 1862, to Ist Jaly, 186:

The names of four N.-C, 0.'s and thirteen privates, most of whom appear to have been Irish, are inscribed beneath with the pathetic postscript "Also one woman and three chil-

Mrs. Hannah Jennings, child J. J. bury the dosd outside the city walls in this primitive burial-ground the ancient custom comes to life again. Whether the paths of glory, or the not less exacting paths of duty, led the soldiers who rest here to their graves we: do not know; their names are forgotten, their tombs too long have been neglected; all we can say of each one rust His soul is with the saints, I trast."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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