One for Liverpool Annie Part 2

[liverpool annie]

Well it looks like our George H Baynes who lived in Colorado Springs for 25 years - moved to the Soldiers Home in Washington DC about 18 months before he died ..... but I still can't find a grave !! 

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,291902.0.html

[liverpool annie]

This was thought to be the survivors list in 1913 !! 

[liverpool annie]

Captain Clement Walker Heneage V.C.

Born in Compton Bassett, Wiltshire 6th March 1831, Clement Walker Heneage was the son of George Heneage Walker-Heneage (the Member of Parliament for Devizes) and his wife Harriet. Educated at Eton and Christchurch College Oxford, he was gazetted into the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars as a Cornet on 10th August 1851. On 3rd September 1854, he became a Lieutenant, with which rank he rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade. He served throughout the Crimean War, being present at the Battles of Alma, Inkerman and Tchermaya, as well as the action at Mackenzie's Farm, the siege of Sebastopol and the Kenteh Expedition.

Heneage was a man of strong opinions. Writing after the Crimean War about the recriminations and accusations concerning the loss of the Light Brigade, he had little doubt where the blame lay, observing "It is wonderful to observe the way that fool the "British public" kicks a man directly he is down, as in the instance of unlucky Lucan. I always hated him, and so did the whole Cavalry Division, but for heaven's sake let a man have fair play - here is this unfortunate man catching it over the head and ears, merely because he obeyed an order given by the thick-headed Raglan through his still more stupid Q.M. (quartermaster) General Airey, who is about the worst of the whole headquarters staff".

After his return from the Crimea he was promoted to Captain on 12th May 1857, and once more set out on campaign, this time sailing for India with the Regiment from Cork on the S.S. Great Britain in October 1857. With the rebel leader, the Rhani of Jhansi, safe within the stronghold of Gwalior, the opposing force under Major General Sir Hugh Rose took up position on the plain below the town. Heneage commanded a squadron of 8th Hussars who surprised the enemy with a flanking attack, catching them unawares. "There was no pretence of resistance any longer except from a slight, fully-armed figure that was helplessly whirled along in this cataract of men and horses. Again and again this one leader, gesticulating and vociferating, attempted to stem the torrent of routed rebels, but all in vain. There was no possibility of holding up the broken Mahrattas, and at last a chance shot struck down, across his horse's neck, this one champion of the retreating force. A moment later the swaying figure was overtaken, and one stroke from a Hussar's sabre ended the whole matter. There was no time to halt, for the victory had to be pressed home; but as the Squadron returned, it was discovered that it was the Rhani of Jhansi herself who had thus ended her meteoric career".

The citation for the Victoria Cross appeared in the London Gazette of 26th January 1859. It reads :- "Selected for the Victoria Cross by their companions. In the gallant charge made by a Squadron of the Regiment at Gwalior on 17th June 1858, when supported by a division of the Bombay Horse Artillery, and Her Majesty's 95th Regiment, they routed the enemy, who were advancing against Brigadier Smith's position, charged through the rebel camp into two batteries, capturing and bringing fire from the fort and town." (Field Force Orders by Major General Sir Hugh Henry Rose, G.C.B. Commanding Central India Field Force, dated Camp Gwalior 28th June 1858).

He took the rank of Brevet-Major on 20th July 1858, and on 16th November 1860, purchased the rank of Major in place of Major Edward Phillips who retired by sale of Commission. He retired from the Army by the sale of his own Commission on 20th July 1868.

On 7th December 1865, at St Paul's Church Sketty, South Wales, he married Henrietta Letitia Victoria Vivian the daughter of the MP for Swansea. Their children were Godfrey Clement Walker (born 17th May 1868) later Major Grenadier Guards, D.S.O., M.V.O.; John Vivian Walker (born 27th May 1869); Algernon Walker (born 4th February 1871) later Rear-Admiral, Royal Navy C.B., M.V.O.; Claud Walker (born 24th April 1875) later Barrister at Law; Aline Dulcie Walker (born 18th August 1877). Clement Walker Heneage, V.C. died at Compton Bassett House, Compton Bassett, Wiltshire on 9th December 1901 aged 70 years, 9 months.

Besides his Victoria Cross, Heneage was awarded the Crimea Medal with clasps for Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and Sebastopol; the Turkish Crimea Medal and the Indian Mutiny Medal with the clasp for Central India

http://www.lynehamvillage.com/history/bygones/walkerfamily.html

http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/wiltshir.htm

[liverpool annie]

I found this snippet ....

Sarah WESTMORELAND buried at Hanging Heaton, near Dewsbury, WRY, ENG; born circa 1832 at Rothwell, WRY, ENG; died 1878 at Hunslet Sub District, Leeds, WRY, ENG (possibly reg. of her death).
She was a Laundress. She was Unmarried, but she was the long-term mistress of Fred Waring who was the father of her three children. According to  Lilian and Dorothy Clough, Fred Waring eventually married someone else of higher social status.  His brother, Charles, was in the Charge of the Light Brigade.

http://www.westmoreland-worldwide.org.uk/phillip-descendency.htm

EJ Boys - Waring Pte Charles 1173   17th L

[liverpool annie]

We all know this painting but don't know much about the artist ....

William Simpson 1823-1899

William was born in Glasgow on 28th October 1823, the son of James Simpson, a dissolute labourer who worked in the shipyards, and Ann (née Johnstone), a gentle woman for whom he always retained great affection.

Although his formal education was scant, by the age of fourteen William had earned himself an apprenticeship in lithography, initially with David MacFarlane and later with the firm of Allan & Ferguson in Glasgow. He had also acquired a wide interest in the arts and sciences, and frequently attended free lectures at the Andersonian University and the Mechanics Institute, finding Chemistry and Natural Philosophy most to his liking. But art was his main interest. On certain days when no dinner was being made at home, a penny was given to him for food. By forgoing the meal, he could afford to buy colours in the art supply shop to enable him to sketch the people and street scenes of Glasgow.

Simpson died at his home in Willesden on 17th August 1899, aged 75, his wife and daughter by his side. He had never fully recovered from the attack of bronchitis he caught nine years earlier while sketching the opening of the Forth Bridge. He was buried in his mother's grave in the dissenters' section of Highgate Cemetery in London -- and there is a certain aptness in the fact that he now lies peacefully slightly to the left of another great Victorian social commentator (of a vastly different ilk), Karl Marx. The juxtaposition of the graves would have made him smile -- and it does make for both a fine metaphor and a suitable memorial.

http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/victorianweb/painting/simpson/bio.html

[liverpool annie]

This is Captain Thomas ......... Aide-de-Camp to General Bousquet - commanding the Light Brigade -  shown in this Roger Felton photo taken in 1855 before the battle .... I know I sound like a broken record .... but I can't find him !! 

[liverpool annie]

Is this cool or what ?? .................

1854 dated and identified shell jacket tunic formerly belonging to a survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea in 1855. The jacket is identified by name and number to "4156 Wm. Fulton Pte." ..... he is listed as being assigned to the 8th Hussars and was 22 years old at the time of the Charge.
( This jacket is a cream colored wool with bright scarlet trim at the throat and cuffs..... it has a lot of heavy gold bullion frogwork and treatments at the cuffs and back in wide gold bullion stripes - there are five rows of buttons - four of them decorative and one functional Several buttons are missing as shown .... look at the sweat stains and blood spatter on the inside !!  )

* EJ Boys Fulton   Pte   William   1153   8th H

[liverpool annie]

This small unmounted "snapshot" photograph depicts an elderly if somewhat ragged looking gentleman and is an otherwise unremarkable image from sometime around the turn of the 20th Century. What makes it stand out is  the period fountain pen inscription on the reverse identifying the sitter as "one of the 600". 
The full inscription in only partial legible with the first word looking like an abbreviated version of "Lancer". The  rest of the brief  ink inscription reads: "Lancer(?) Dobinson one of the 600". This seem to indicate that Dobinson  was one of the 600 who made the famous charge at Balaclava during the Crimean War.

Information kindly provided by Mr. Michael Hargreave Mawson author of Eyewitness to the Crimea reveals  that there was no one with the name of Dobinson appears in the rolls of those who served with the Light Brigade  during the Crimean War. Perhaps Mr. Dobinson did see active service during the war or was a member of the  17th Lancers at another time and place but his story - like all good fish tales - grew with the telling as the years  passed until at least to those who knew him he did indeed become one of the immortal 600.

http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/page16f-LancerDobinsonOneOfTheSixHundred.html

There were two Dobsons at Balaklava - and one was a Lancer ....... 

EJ Boys - Dobson Pte Benjamin 874 17th L
              Dobson Pte Christopher 1122 8th H....

but theres a concensus of opinion this Dobinson was telling porkies !! I think I'll add him here .... because surely that's a face only a mother could love .... God Bless him !!

[liverpool annie]

Just a snippet ....... !!

A contrasting pair of windows indeed. The two long lancet windows in the south transept are erected `To the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of Hugh Montgomery, 13th Light Dragoons, killed at the Battle of Balaklava October 25th, 1854, by his sister Ellen Montgomery 1870'.

http://www.lisburn.com/books/drumbeg/drumbeg3.html

EJ Boys - Montgomery Cornet Hugh 13th LD