[David Oliphant's grave]

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[David Oliphant's grave]

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dc.contributor.author	Photographer: Giles Family
dc.date.accessioned	2006-06-06T01:00:34Z
dc.date.accessioned	2011-01-04T05:07:57Z
dc.date.available	2006-06-06T01:00:34Z
dc.date.available	2011-01-04T05:07:57Z
dc.date.available	6/06/2006
dc.date.created	8/11/2002
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1885/43339
dc.description	"David Oliphant was Second Assistant at the British Legation in Peking. He had just completed his course as a Student Interpreter when the siege occurred." Lancelot Giles (1970) p. 186."On 5 July another popular young man, David Oliphant of the British Consular Service, brother of Nigel Oliphant, was mortally wounded while cutting down a tree in the Hanlin. Captain Poole had given the order to withdraw but Oliphant ignored it. Poole rushed back to find him lying on his back, with a sailor - Henry Swannell of HMS Orlando - sitting beside him, and shot dropping everywhere. Too small to carry Oliphant, Swannell was attempting to shield him by 'placing himself between Oliphant and the direction from which the Chinese were firing'. Oliphant was carried to the hospital on a door in terrible agony but died three hours later...." Diana Preston (1999) p. 123."..... in [the] fifty-five days [of the siege of the legations], sixty-six people had been killed, and a hundred and fifty wounded [not counting the Chinese Christians who had fought alongside the Europeans]" Marina Warner (1972) p.244.Photograph occurs in album along with others of the Seige of Peking, June-August 1900.
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dc.language.iso	en_AU
dc.publisher	Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
dc.relation.ispartof	Giles Family Albums
dc.rights.uri	This image is published under a CC-BY licence. For further information please go to http://creativecommons.org.au/learn/licences/
dc.source	Menzies Very Large Rare Book 2233396
dc.subject.other	China--History--Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901
dc.title	[David Oliphant's grave]
dc.type	Image
dc.rights.holder	The Australian National University.
local.type.status	Submitted version
local.citation	2233396 Album 2 Page 6 Photograph 3
dcterms.accessRights	Open Access
dc.rights.license	This image is published under a CC-BY licence.
Collections	Giles Family Albums

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