'Cairn on the site of Saragarhi Post'

Photograph, North West Frontier, India, no date.

On 12 September 1897, during the Tirah Force Expedition, 21 soldiers of the 36th (Sikh) Regiment of Bengal Infantry fought a desperate last ditch stand to defend a British outpost at Saragarhi. Rather than surrender to an overwhelming force of hostile Afghan tribesmen, the soldiers fought to the death. The defenders were all posthumously awarded the Indian Order of Merit.

The pyramidal monument, now collapsed, was reputed to have been constructed from stones from the Saragarhi outpost and raised on or near the site of the funeral pyre used to cremate the bodies of the dead defenders.