Crimean War. Stone obelisk.


A newspaper article in the Mona's Herald dated 11 August 1858 states that at the time of the memorial's construction, the Lieutenant Governor applied to the Secretary at War for one of the guns captured from the enemy at the Battle of Inkermann, in order that the gun might be placed at the foot of the monument in the Grounds of the Nunnery. A Russian gun was subsequently presented by Secretary Major General Peel. The Secretary also agreed that, for the sum of thirty pounds, he would authorise the construction of a gun carriage at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, in exact similarity to the Russian gun carriages employed in the late war.