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« Reply #99 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 18:40 GMT (UK) »


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It reads: "Dear Sir. My promise I have fulfilled. I herewith send you the medals belonging to my dear late husband. I feel sure they will be cared for and will always remain in your family. "It was his last wish that if anything happened to him you was to have them. He did pride himself with them when he was coming up to London."

How sad this is ...... and how patriotic men ( and women ) of that age were ........ I just find it all so amazing .... !!
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« Reply #100 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 18:53 GMT (UK) »
JOHN Howes survived one of Britain's worst military disasters - but he now lies forgotten in a Birmingham cemetary.

Howes was buried in Lodge Hill cemetery, in Selly Oak, following his death on Christmas Day 1902, nearly 50 years after he became one of 'the gallant 600' who charged the Russian guns during the Crimean War.

Now, on the 150th anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade, which saw 157 British soldiers killed or wounded, a city councillor has urged the young to take pride in our military past and get the stones cleaned up.

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Coun Peter Douglas Osborn (Cons, Weoley) said: 'The graves of our war dead give young people a sense of our culture.

'We need to make our youth proud of our heritage and the best way to start is by cleaning up gravestones and monuments such as this. I would really like to see a tribute and some recognition for a man who is one of our greatest local heroes.'

John Howes was a sergeant in the 4th Light Dragoons when he and his comrades launched their suicidal attack during the battle of Balaclava, headlong into Russian artillery while strafed from either side by cannon.

He later recalled: how he was one of the last to set out on the charge. 'It was not a fault of my own, it was owing to a brute of a horse I had, not my own,' he said.

'Apart from a slight cut to the head, occasioned by a set-to with a Russian hussar, I escaped without any serious injury.'

Sgt Howes later became a Troop Sergeant Major and the honorary treasurer of the Birmingham Military Veterans Association.

He lived in Spring Road, Edgbaston, and died of pneumonia, aged 73.

As official celebrations took place yesterday, the gravestone to another survivor of the charge who won the Victoria Cross for his bravery was unveiled at St Agatha's church, in Tamworth.

Samuel Parkes
became only the second man to win the VC for killing six Cossacks to save the life of a bugler and his regiment's second in command.

A MEMORIAL plaque was unveiled in the home town of a Midlands soldier who won the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Yesterday's service for Samuel Parkes, in St Editha's Church, Tamworth, Staffordshire, came on the eve of the 150th anniversary of the ill-fated manoeuvre during the Battle of Balaclava in 1854. Trooper Parkes, who was born in the town, was only the second man to be given the VC after he risked his life to save a regimental trumpeter and the second-in command of his regiment, the Queen's Royal Hussars.

But although the soldier survived the Crimean War, he died a pauper aged 49 in 1864 and was buried in an unmarked grave in London.

The service was a triumph for Peter Elkin, Parkes' great-great-great nephew, who has spent years researching his life story for a book, called Tamworth's Forgotten Hero.

Mr Elkin, aged 64, from Cheadle, Staffordshire, said: 'This is a significant day, not only because of he won the VC in the Charge of the Light Brigade, but also because it's the 150th anniversary. He also slipped into obscurity. Tamworth didn't really know of his existence.' The service was attended by members of the Queen's Royal Hussars and the British Legion.

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« Reply #101 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 18:56 GMT (UK) »
A bugle used in the Charge of the Light Brigade has returned to the Crimea to take part in a re-enactment battle ( via a Newcastle pub.

The horn which started the bloodbath was kept on display in the Percy Arms on Percy Street for more than a century until 1964, when it was bought by film star Laurence Harvey.

It was originally brought to Tyneside after trumpeter William "Billy" Brittain died in the battle.

Billy, who was originally from Ireland, settled in Newcastle and was responsible for sounding the bugle during the ill-fated attack on Russian troops on October 25, 1854.

He kept the bugle slung around his shoulder as he rode toward enemy lines along with more than 600 men of the 17th Queen's Royal Lancers.

Billy was seriously injured during the battle and died, despite being cared for by Florence Nightingale at Scutari Hospital.

The instrument is believed to have been taken back to Tyneside with his body.

The bugle was badly damaged on the battlefield at Balaklava in modern-day Ukraine, but experts at Lincoln University took on the painstaking task of restoring it in June this year.

Chris Robinson, senior technician in Conservation and Restoration at the Lincoln School of Art and Design, spent weeks conserving and preparing the bugle for this year's anniversary celebrations.

He said: "The bugle was in a shocking state, really.

"It was split, the metal was torn and twisted and it's been repaired at some time in the past with an epoxy adhesive.

"There was also a lot of dirt and polish residue and the copper was fragile from endless polishing.

"Visually it didn't look massively different because I had not done any restoration.

"I just conserved what's there to make sure it stayed together.

"I removed old repairs, strengthened some of the weaker pieces of it and removed the crust of polish residue which had built up in all the places where the polishing cloth wouldn't reach."

The bugle is now kept by the Queen's Royal Lancer's Museum in Grantham.

But it was taken back to the North Field at Balaklava yesterday, where it again sounded the charge.

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« Reply #102 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 19:05 GMT (UK) »

Do you think that this maybe a memorial to a Cossack who died during the Charge ??

http://www.whoo.net/balaklava/Balaklava-Crimea-Ukraine_new-picture23896.html

How beautiful it looks there ..... !!

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« Reply #103 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 19:38 GMT (UK) »
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Do you think that this maybe a memorial to a Cossack who died during the Charge ??

No Annie, it is WWII monument

Monument to Russians who stood against Light Brigade was erected in 1904 on Arab Tabia Hill. During World War II a pillbox was made in the pedestal of the monument, and during the battle monument was destroyed.
New monument was erected in 2004.

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« Reply #104 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 19:41 GMT (UK) »
And here is British monument

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« Reply #105 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 20:39 GMT (UK) »
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« Reply #106 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 20:58 GMT (UK) »


Those pictures of the monuments are great Mike ..... look at that blue sky ..... wonderful !  :)

Who is responsible for the upkeep .... do you know ??

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« Reply #107 on: Wednesday 05 March 08 01:18 GMT (UK) »


Highly Important Crimea Medal awarded to Private J.Strutt of the 11th Hussars who took part in the Infamous Charge of the Light Brigade in which he was wounded. He died in February 1855 - The Medal, Crimea 1854-56, three bars, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol, is officially impressed (J.Strutt. 11th Hussars.).

Private J.Strutt enlisted into the 11th Hussars in January 1849. He was slightly wounded in the charge but he died on the 1st February 1855 and is buried between Kadikoi and Karani.


Thomas Warr was one of the 'Noble 600' at the Charge of the Light Brigade, while charging the Russian Lines his horse was wounded by canon shrapnel and spears, rather than leave his horse in pain Trooper Warr dragged it back a mile to safety and the English lines and had it put down humanely!!
After the war he returned to Dorchester but lived in poverty and died in a workhouse in 1916. At his funeral hundreds of people lined the streets, he was given a military funeral but was laid in a unmarked grave.
Thomas Warr joined the 11th Hussars in 1850 and took part in the charge of 1854. He served with the Hussars until 1860, and as the writer says, he came back and as many of the poor men, 'were left in the scrapheap'. It is not known if he had any family and died aged 87 in 1916.
For his funeral, the Hussars took pity on him and sent 6 NCO's to act as pall bearers and soldiers from the Dorset and Gloucestershire regiments were the burial party.

Dorchester ......... Thomas Warr

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ONE OF THE NOBLE SIX HUNDRED PRESENTATION TO TROOPER THOMAS WARR

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DEATH OF BALACLAVA CHARGE VETERAN - TROOPER THOMAS WARR 11TH HUSSARS

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