Bengal Engineers
Memorial in Delhi - "On
the 14th September 1857 the British force stormed Delhi, it was
after sunrise on that day that the undermentioned party advancing
from Ludlow Castle in the face of a heavy fire and crossing this
bridge which had been almost totally destroyed lodged powder bags
against and blew in the right leaf of this gate thus opening a
way for the assaulting Column. Lieutenant Duncan Home. Lieutenant
Philip Salkeld. Bengal Engineers, mortally wounded. Sergeant John Smith. Sergeant
A.B. Carmichael killed. Corporal F. Burgess killed. Bengal Sappers
and Miners. Bugler Hawthorne 52nd Foot. Soobadar Toola Ram.
Jemadar Bis Ram. Havildar Madhoo wounded. Havildar
Tilok Singh. mortally wounded. Sepoy Ram Heth killed. Bengal Sappers
and Miners. This memorial
is placed here as a tribute of respect to these gallant soldiers
by General Lord Napier of Magdala Colonel Royal Engineers and
Commander in Chief in India 1876."
Corporal S. Allister - wounded
at Delhi 14 September 1857. died of wounds (Sappers and Miners)
Sergeant F. Burgess (alias F. Grierson) - killed at Cashmere
Gate, Delhi 14 September 1857 (Sappers and Miners)
Sergeant A. Carmichael - killed at Cashmere Gate, Delhi
14 September 1857 (Sappers and Miners)
Sepoy Ram Heth - killed at Cashmere Gate, Delhi 14 September
1857 (Sappers and Miners)
Sergeant P. McKeon - killed at Delhi 14 September 1857
(Sappers and Miners)
Havildar Tilok Singh
- killed at Cashmere Gate, Delhi 14
September 1857 (Sappers and Miners)
Bengal
Commissariat and Ordnance Department
Memorial at
Delhi - "On the
11th May 1857 nine resolute Englishmen - Lieut. Geo. Dobson Willoughby,
Bengal Artillery, in command. Lieutenant William Raynor - Lieutenant
Geo. Forrest - Conductor Geo. William Shaw - Conductor
John Buckley -
Conductor John Scully - Sub Conductor William Crow - Sergeant
Benjamin Edward - Sergeant Peter Stewart - defended the magazine of Delhi for more than four
hours against large numbers of the rebels and mutineers until
the walls being scaled and all hope of succour gone these brave
men fired the magazine - five of the gallant band perished in
the explosion which at the same time destroyed many of the enemy.
This tablet marking the former entrance gate of the magazine is
placed here by the Government of India."
Conductor William Berrill - killed
at Cawnpore 27 June 1857
Conductor Geoffrey Coleman - wounded at Allahabad 22 June
1857. died of wounds
Sub-Conductor G. Connor - killed at Delhi 11 May 1857
Sub-Conductor William Crow - killed at Delhi 11 May 1857
Sergeant Robert Dixon - killed at Gwalior 19 June 1857
Sergeant Benjamin Edwards - killed at Delhi 11 May 1857
Conductor J. Nolan - killed at Delhi 11 May 1857
Assistant Commissary Nicholas Reilly - killed at Cawnpore
27 June 1857
Sergeant John Ryan - killed at Delhi 11 May 1857
Conductor John Scully - killed at Delhi 11 May 1857
Sub-Conductor R.N. Settle - killed at Delhi 11 May 1857
Conductor William George Shaw - killed at Delhi 11 May
1857
Sergeant Peter Stewart - killed at Delhi 11 May 1857
Sub-Conductor William H. West - killed at Kotah 26 March
1858
Sub-Conductor J. White - died of wounds at Lucknow 23 August
1857
Sub-Conductor Roger Woods - died of wounds at Lucknow 19
August 1857
