The memorial is made from granite and and has a bronze trophy on the top which is made from the metal of a gun captured at Lucknow. There are four bollards representing cannons at the four corners of the bottom of the plinth. The inscription is very worn and reads:
Inscription (North side)
'SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
CAPTN. SIR WM PEEL K.C.B.
CAPTN. THOS. GREY
MR. M.P. GARVEY MATE
MR. M.A. DANIEL MID
THE SEAMEN AND MARINES
OF THE SHANNON NAVAL BRIGADE
WHO FELL WHILST EMPLOYED IN
N.W. PROVINCES OF INDIA
DURING THE MUTINY AD 1857
AS A TRIBUTE TO THEIR GALLANTRY
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED
BY THE OFFICERS AND CREW
OF HMS SHANNON
1860'
Inscription (East side)
'KILLED IN ACTION
2 OFFICERS 6 SEAMEN 2 MARINES
DIED OF WOUNDS
9 SEAMEN 1 MARINE
DIED OF DISEASE
2 OFFICERS 70 SEAMEN 11 MARINES
WOUNDED
7 OFFICERS 34 SEAMEN 3 MARINES
COME WE BLESSED OF MY FATHER
INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED
FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF
THE WORLD'
Inscription (South side)
'THE TROPHY
IS MADE FROM A GUN
CAPTURED AT LUCKNOW
AND PRESENTED
TO THE SHANNON BRIGADE
BY GEN. LORD CLYDE G.C.B.
COMMANDER IN CHIEF
OF THE ARMY'
Inscription (West side)
'THE SHANNON'S NAVAL BRIGADE
WITH 6 8 INCH GUNS AND
FOUR FIELD PIECES
LEFT CALCUTTA
FOR THE N.W. PROVINCE
AUG 13 1857
SERVED AT THE BATTLE OF KEDJIVA
OCTOBER 1857
RELIEF OF LUCKNOW NOV 1857
DEFEAT OF THE GWALIOR CONTINGENT
DEC 1857
BATTLE OF KALLEE-NUDDEE
JAN 1858
CAPTURE OF LUCKNOW MARCH 1858
AND RETURNED TO THE SHANNON AUG 1858'
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Wikipedia describes this war:visit link
'The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region. The rebellion posed a considerable threat to Company power in that region, and was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858. The rebellion is also known as the India's First War of Independence, the Great Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Revolt of 1857, the Uprising of 1857, the Sepoy Rebellion, and the Sepoy Mutiny.
Other regions of Company-controlled India – such as Bengal, the Bombay Presidency, and the Madras Presidency – remained largely calm. In Punjab, the Sikh princes backed the Company by providing soldiers and support. The large princely states of Hyderabad, Mysore, Travancore, and Kashmir, as well as the smaller ones of Rajputana, did not join the rebellion. In some regions, such as Oudh, the rebellion took on the attributes of a patriotic revolt against European presence. Maratha leaders, such as the Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, became folk heroes in the nationalist movement in India half a century later; however, they themselves "generated no coherent ideology" for a new order. The rebellion led to the dissolution of the East India Company in 1858. It also led the British to reorganise the army, the financial system and the administration in India. India was thereafter directly governed by the crown as the new British Raj.'