Inscription on the grave of Admiral Charles John Austen at Trincomalee, Ceylon:-

Sacred to the Memory of
HIS EXCELLENCY CHARLES JOHN AUSTEN
Companion of the Most Honorable Military
order of the Bath
Rear Admiral of the Red
and
Commander in Chief of Her Majesty's Naval
Forces on the East India and China Stations.
Died off Prome the 7th of October 1852 of cholera
while in command of the Naval expedition on the
River Irrawaddy against the Burmese forces.
Aged 75 years.

Inscription on Bell at Admiralty House, Trincomalee, Ceylon:-

Presented
By the Captors at the Storming of
Rangoon
14th April 1852 to
REAR ADMIRAL AUSTEN C.B.
Commander in Chief of the Naval Force employed
on that occasion
and left by him at the ADMIRALTY HOUSE TRINCOMALEE
as an
HEIRLOOM.

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