Picture No | 10238402 |
Date | 21st September 1878 |
Description | Princess Alice disaster, burial of unknown dead |
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Burial of the unknown dead at the Woolwich cemetery, East Wickham after the disasterous sinking of the Princess Alice passenger steamship on the Thames on 3rd September 1878 in which approximately 640 lives were lost. Over 120 bodies were never identified.
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Source | Engraving in the Illustrated London News, 21st September 1878 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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