An early Victorian silkwork commemorative embroidery for the Cawnpore Memorial Well, dated 1857, worked in silk and woven with silver and gold threads, with embroidered and printed inscriptions, the inscription at the base reads Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people - chiefly women and children - who, near this spot, were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoondoput of Bhitoor, and cast, the dying with the dead into the well on the XVth day of July 1857, mounted and framed, 56 x 46cm; together with eight photographs, including group military photographs of the 2nd Bn Wiltshire Regiment, including R Purbrick, the current owner's uncle's father, and other family photographsNote: This poignant embroidery commemorates the victims of the Bibighar massacre after the Siege of Cawnpore in India 1857. After hearing of an approaching rescue attempt from the East India Company, around 200 women and children were brutally murdered by rebel Sepoy forces, their bodies thrown into a well in an attempt to cover up the evidence. Please refer to department for condition report