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 Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon by J. Penry Lewis, C.M.G.
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Alan Edmonds and Merran Ainslie |
 | Surname | Men of the 78th Highlanders | | | Date of death | Oct-Nov 1832 | | | Place | Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee.  | | | Inscription | Sacred to the Memory of 56 non-commissioned Officers and Privates, two women, and one child of the 78th Highlanders, who were carried off by the epidemic cholera between 12th October and 7th November,1832, and whose remains lie in, or near this spot………. | | | Remarks | See image for further detail of the epidemic. | | | First page |  View image |
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