Description

PORTSMOUTH

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

II

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).

Listing NGR: SZ6334899296

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26397866

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2