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Monument to men massacred in the Sinai desert

Hart, Son, Peard & Co. (Maker)

Memorial panel to five men massacred in the Sinai desert, 1882, brass, marble, Hart, Son, Peard & Co., London.

London

HART, SON, PEARD & Co.LONDON.OTIA TEMNENTES CUPIENTES ARDUA PLORATTRES SIMUL ABREPTOS MATER, UT ORBA RAHELIN MEMORY OF THREE BRAVE MEN: / PROFESSOR EDWARD HENRY PALMER, / FELLOW OF S.JOHNS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, / LORD ALMONER'S READER IN ARABIC AND / A SCHOLAR AND LINGUIST OF RARE GENIUS: / CAPTAIN WILLIAM JOHN GILL, R.E. / AN ARDENT AND ACCOMPLISHED SOLDIER / AND A DISTINGUISHED EXPLORER; / LIEUTENANT HAROLD CHARRINGTON. / R.N.OF H.M.S. EURYALUS, A YOUNG / OFFICER OF HIGH PROMISE; / WHO WHEN TRAVELLING ON PUBLIC DUTY / INTO THE SINAI DESERT WERE TREACHEROUSLY / AND CRUELLY SLAIN IN THE WADY SADR / AUGUST.11TH.MDCCCLXXXII.', main inscription, commenced.THEIR REMAINS AFTER THE LAPSE OF / MANY WEEKS, HAVING BEEN PARTIALLY / RECOVERED AND BROUGHT TO ENGLAND, / WERE DEPOSITED HERE WITH CHRISTIAN / RITES, APRIL 6TH.MDCCCLXXXIII. / THIS TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTED BY / THE COUNTRY IN WHOSE SERVICE THEY / PERISHED, TO COMMEMORATE THEIR NAMES, / THEIR WORTH AND THEIR FATE. / THAT TRAGIC FATE WAS SHARED BY TWO / FAITHFUL ATTENDANTS, THE SYRIAN KHALIL / ATIK AND THE HEBREW BAKHOR HUSSUN, / WHOSE REMAINS LIE WITH THEIRS. / "Our Bones lie scattered before the Pit, / as when one breaketh and cleaveth / Wood upon the Earth, but our eyes / look unto Thee, O Lord God!". / Ps.cxli.main inscription, completed.