INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPHS
YIEWS OF SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S TOMB. EARLY HfSTORY RECALLED.
Photos that are of great interest to Napier, reealling the earl.v history of the town, have been reeeivod by tlie Napier Thirty Thousnnd Club througli tlie eourtesy of Dr. T. O. Moore, of Napier. The pliotographs inelude oue of the i mon#neiit t> Sir Cliarles Napier, the j fam/us British gcneral. after wliom Napier was nauicd. Tlie monument ! stands in Trafalgar Sc|iiare, London. | and is spIendTdly shown in the pic- j ture takou. OUier photos ■ inelude that of the J tomb of Sir Cliarles Napier in Ports- \ month militnry churehyard. On the \ sides of the tomb can be plainly sccn ! the words Meanee and Hydorahad, the; two most famous of the distinguished j general's battles, l'roni which Meanee ; district and Hyderabad road now take j their names. Sir Cliarles Napier was one of the 1 most distinguished generals of his | time, serving with credit in the I Peninsula War and later acting as | comniander-in-ehief in India. He died in 1833. It is understood tliat tlie Thirty Thousand Club will have the pliotographs framed and exhibited in tlie town, where they are sure to create great interest.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 69, 23 April 1929, Page 7
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197INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPHS Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 69, 23 April 1929, Page 7
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