The 'Lest we forget' corner, British Legation, Peking

Collection

Identifier

BL-n063

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Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-n063. Caption on typed list accompanying the box of negatives: Lest we forget' corner'. Digitised from a negative made for a copy print. 'LEST WE FORGET' was inscribed on the wall inside the British Legation after the Boxer Uprising. The phrase 'Lest we forget' was taken from the 1897 Rudyard Kipling poem, "Recessional". See also BL-n041 and NA06-08.

Caption in album or on mount

'LEST-WE-FORGET' CORNER. 31

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1900

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph