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Felice Beato 
The cemetery, Tientsin 
1862 
  
Albumen print 
Private collection of Dr. Timothy Connor - Historical Photographs of China 
Historical Photographs of China, www.hpcbristol.net, Identifier: GA01-067, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license 
  
 
LL/72636 
  
Notes:
Photograph of the cemetery in Tianjin with monuments to regiments and other military units of the British Army during the Second Opium War. The monument in the foreground ('No 2') is devoted to the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot, which Captain George Turnour Horton Atchison served in. The city wall is in the background.
 
Background to collection:
Captain George Turnour Horton Atchison was in China serving with the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and was Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General to the troops in north China. He was present at the capture of the Taku Forts and the campaign of 1860 (Second Opium War). Atchison died at Tientsin (Tianjin) on 21 July 1861, aged 28. 
 

 
  
 
  
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