Picture No | 11111508 |
Date | 23 December 1912 |
Description | Attempted assassination of Indian Viceroy 1912 |
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During a State Entry into Delhi, on 23rd December 1912, Lord Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858 – 1944) British diplomat and statesman who served as Viceroy of India, and his wife Lady Hardinge, Winifred Selina Sturt Hardinge (née Sturt),(1868 - 1914), were riding on a howdah, on a State elephant when a bomb was thrown at them. It exploded in the howdah, but mainly backwards, killing one of the attendants on the back of the elephant. Lord Hardinge was wounded by a fragment of the bomb which struck his right shoulder, Lady Hardinge escaped the effects of the bomb.
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Source | Photograph by Johnston & Hoffmann in 'The Sphere', 4 January 1913, page 9 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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