| Felice Beato Sea Front of the Upper North Taku Fort by which the Tartars retreated. Colors of the 67th fixed on the left Flag staff. 1860 Albumen print Private collection of Dr. Timothy Connor - Historical Photographs of China Historical Photographs of China, www.hpcbristol.net, Identifier: GA01-042, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license LL/72634 Background to collection:
Captain George Turnour Horton Atchison was in China serving with the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and was Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General to the troops in north China. He was present at the capture of the Taku Forts and the campaign of 1860 (Second Opium War). Atchison died at Tientsin (Tianjin) on 21 July 1861, aged 28.
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