Cawnpore Cross


A wooden cross that was made from a tree that stood near to the well in which the dead bodies were dumped. The inscription on the base states: "made out of a tree wch (sic) stood near 'the Well' at Cawnpore 1857 (signed) I W Shaw Chaplain"


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