REDISCOVERING THE GRAVE OF LADY SALE
Thanks to details and a photograph published in Chowkidar in 1986, Dominic Medley has found the grave of Lady Florentia Sale, a survivor of the first Afghan war, who died in Cape Town in 1853 after a gruelling voyage from India. Here is his report:
‘Lady Sale was an extraordinary woman. Here are just a few quotes from her much-feted diary and account of the British under siege in Kabul in 1841, the disastrous retreat and defeat at Gandamack in January 1842 and her subsequent captivity of nine months:’
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