3-021-220 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Machurda Village, India, with the tomb of Captains Latouche and Hebbert, killed in conflict with the Wagheers, 1869. 'The Jam of Nowanugger and the Nawab of Joonaghur of Kattywar, Bombay Presidency [British India], have erected a monument over the grave of two officers of the 17th Bombay Native Infantry Regiment, who were killed there in the action with the Wagheers on 29 Dec. 1867... Captain H. T. Hebbert was killed by a shot which broke his spine... Captain Charles B. Latouche...galloped after the Wagheers. Overtaking them at no great distance, he shot one man dead with his pistol, and wounded another, by whom he was shot, and fell, the bullet passing through his left side...They were buried...in the same grave and in the same coffin, having been intimate friends during life. The whole loss on our side was eleven killed and two wounded; of the Wagheers, only seven escaped, their chief, Dewa Maneck, being slain by Captain Hebbert's own hand. Two of the native Princes...whose territories were thus delivered from the Wagheer depredations, have settled pensions for life upon Mrs. Hebbert and Mrs. Latouche, the widows of the two English officers. The monument...does credit to the native chiefs and people, as well as to their British protectors'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.