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In Memoriam [David Oliphant]

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dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Giles Familyen_AU
dc.date.accessioned2006-06-06T01:04:06Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-04T05:08:32Z
dc.date.available2006-06-06T01:04:06Zen_US
dc.date.available2011-01-04T05:08:32Z
dc.date.available6/06/2006en_AU
dc.date.created8/11/2002
dc.descriptionDetails from plaque: Here fell David Oliphant of H.B.M. consular service mortally wounded while cutting down this tree 11.30 am 5 July 1900 . And here Henry Swannell signalman H.M.S. Orlando at the risk of his life stayed by his side and held him until help came to bear him to the hospital -----oooOOOooo----- "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.en_AU
dc.formatOriginal images scanned at 72 dpi (or in individual cases slightly higher) and in .jpg formaten_AU
dc.format.extent178782 bytesen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeimage/jpegen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/43436en_AU
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherCanberra, ACT : The Australian National Universityen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofGiles Family Albumsen_AU
dc.rights.holderThe Australian National University.
dc.rights.licenseThis image is published under a CC-BY licence.en_AU
dc.rights.uriThis image is published under a CC-BY licence. For further information please go to http://creativecommons.org.au/learn/licences/en_AU
dc.sourceMenzies Very Large Rare Book 2233396en_AU
dc.subject.otherChina--History--Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901en_AU
dc.titleIn Memoriam [David Oliphant]en_AU
dc.typeImageen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.citation2233396 Album 2 Page 17en_AU
local.type.statusSubmitted version

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