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‘The Riddle of Wadjet’

Sarah Henrietta Mawson

(1845-1921)

British Camp, After the Battle of Ali Musjid

Khyber Pass, Afghan/Indian (now Pakistan) Border

2nd Anglo-Afghan War, 22 November 1878
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“Whilst examining the bullet wound of Captain [Major] Birch, which was in

the region of the heart, it was found that a locket containing a picture of
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his wife had been carried into the wound by the bullet.”
Surgeon Major George Joseph Hamilton Evatt

23 July 1878, Peshawar, North Western Frontier, British India
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