“Graves of the Hunters – Sialkot, Panjab, India”. Exterior view showing two horizontal grave markers in a walled garden. Thomas Hunter (1827-1857), the first Church of Scotland missionary to the Punjab, was murdered, with his family, during the Indian Mutiny[Rebellion] the same year as they arrived in Sialkot. He, his wife Jane and their baby child attempted to escape first to Wazirabad and then towards the fort in Sialkot. When passing the jail they were shot at and then attacked by a jailor’s assistant with a sword. The bodies were thrown from the carriage onto the embankment. They are buried in a garden next to the fort in Sialkot and the Hunter Memorial Church was opened in their name in 1865.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78829
- Date published
- circa 1900
- Dates
- circa 1900
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 16.4 x 12 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Asia Pakistan Punjab Siālkot
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Pakistan
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-75647031-1.tif
- Rights
- For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/21910c2ad57832a06250e7ddf880423e
