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Monument to Lieutenant Ousely, R.N., at Kiel, 1856. Grave of a British naval officer who died '...from the effects of exposure during the bombardment of Sveaborg' during the Crimean War. 'Mr. Ouseley had served on board the Duke of Wellington [warship] during the previous operations in the Baltic in 1854, and was at the taking of Bomarsund. The flagship anchored in the harbour of Kiel [in Germany] on the return of the fleet to England in 1851; and then his former messmates learned the death of their comrade; and, with feelings that do honour equally to themselves and the object of their regret, caused this monument to be placed over his grave, in testimony of their regard and esteem'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.