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Dear John Here you are: http://hpc.vcea.net/Database/Images?ID=26700 A ruined corner of the British Legation, Peking (Beijing) with LEST WE FORGET inscribed on the wall. The stout gentlemen in rickshaws on either side of the British NCO (Non-commissioned officer) are probably Chinese officials assessing the damage for reparations (Source: 'The Fists of Richeous Harmony' by Henry Keown-Boyd). Photograph by the Photo Section of the British Corps of Royal Engineers. http://hpc.vcea.net/Asset/Preview/dbImage_ID-26700_No-1.jpeg (700 Kb JPEG image) js> In The Scramble for China (first published 2011), Pr Robert js> Bickers mentions the following in his chapter 'Extinction': js> 'A bullet-scarred wall at the British Legation in Peking was js> fashioned into a permanent memorial [to the siege of the foreign js> legations in 1900], its centrepiece that flexible phrase of js> Rudyard Kipling's: "Lest we forget."' js> Is anyone familiar with this? Are there photographs of the js> memorial in question?(I use the 2012 Penguin paperback edition, js> quote on p. 353).Thanks in advance.John Seriot