Tour Scotland photograph of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders Memorial, St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland. This monument is for the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders killed in the Indian Mutiny between 1857 and 1858. The regiment lost, between the 1st of September 1844 and 30 April 1845, 3 officers, 532 men, 68 women, 134 children. In 1844, cholera wiped out 535 officers and more than 200 members of their families. The memorial was sculpted by William Brodie, born January 22, 1815, died October 30, 1881, who was a Scottish sculptor. William was the son of John Brodie, a Banff shipmaster, and elder brother of Alexander Brodie, another sculptor.
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