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Date transcribed2018-05-12
Transcribed byNigel Penny
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This is one of the graveyards for which FIBIS commissioned Mr Rajat Sharma to take photographs and details of all legible headstones. All inscriptions are included wherever they are legible.

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View all other items of "Surname" with value "Platt" in "Mhow Old Cemetery " Surname  Platt    
First Names  John    
Rank/ Occupation  Colonel    
Regiment  23 Regt Ben. N I    
Date of Death  1 Jul 1857    
Inscription  Sacred to the memory of Colonel John Platt of the of the 23rd Regt. Ben. N. I. aged 55 years. Also of Captain James Fagan 23rd Regt. Ben N. I. aged 37 years. Also of Major Alfred Harris of the 1st Regt. Ben Cavalry aged 41 years. The above officers were killed in the execution of their duty on the night of the mutiny of the Bengal troops at Mhow 1st July 1857.    
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