HMS Shannon Memorial_north Memorial
HMS Shannon Memorial_north
1857-58
Clarence Esplanade, Southsea
United Kingdom
Officers of the Shannon's Naval Brigade First Party, left ship August 18, 1857. Included: Capt Thomas Carstairs Gray, Lieut William Stirling, plus 54 NCOs and Privates. Thomas Langston, RM was invalided (GSW below left Malleous, fleshy) and Lieut Stirling (GSW calf of leg) and Richard Kelly, RMA (GSW through femoral artery) were killed at Khujwa on 1 Nov 1857. NOTE: In Apr 2021 the inscription was almost totally faded, details are from the Memorials of Portsmouth website.
Sacred to the memory of Captn Sir Wm Peel KCB, Capt Thos Grey, Mr M P Garvey, Mate, Mr M A Daniel, MID, the seaman and marines of the Shannon naval Brigade who fell whilst employed in NW Provinces of India during the Mutiny AD 1857. As a tribute to their gallantry this monument is erected by the officers and crew of HMS Shannon 1860
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