Report on the Crimean Cemeteries by Brigadier General J.M. Ayde and Colonel C.G. Gordon; together with Reports on the British Cemeteries on the Bosphorus and at Smyrna, by Brigadier General Ayde.

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Published by H.M.S.O., 1873.

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Folio. pp. 32; large folding plan of the Graveyards at Sebastopol. Listing an astonishing 130 distinct cemeteries and burial grounds. For each is listed the location, the names inscribed on monuments [if any], the condition of the monuments and boundary walls, plus general remarks. Some are marked as "hardly distinguishable", some as a "solitary grave". Many of the monuments and grave markers were already in disrepair due to the materials used. There is a useful alphabetical index to the monuments mentioned in the reports: individual soldiers with their regiments.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Report on the Crimean Cemeteries by Brigadier General J.M. Ayde and Colonel C.G. Gordon; together with Reports on the British Cemeteries on the Bosphorus and at Smyrna, by Brigadier General Ayde.
• Publisher: H.M.S.O., 1873.