One for Liverpool Annie Part 2

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I'm wondering if by any chance - this Thomas Griffiths - could be the same soldier as - Thomas Griffin died 1896 in America ??

http://www.chargeofthelightbrigade.com/allmen/allmenG/allmenG_13LD/griffiths_t_1301_13LD/griffiths_t_1301_13LD.html

As the flood of 1844 had all but demolished Illinois Town, so too the cyclone which on May 27, 1896, drove into the city like battery fire and demolished the area bordering Broadway from the river to the Cahokia Creek viaduct. The present business section was severely damaged. Fire broke out and raged unchecked. Steamers foundered in the Mississippi and the entire east approach of the Eads Bridge was torn away. The residential district on "the island" was demolished. One hundred and eight persons were killed and over two-hundred were wounded. Among the dead was Thomas Griffin, a survivor of the celebrated charge made by the Light Brigade at Balaklava during the Crimean War

http://riverweb.cet.uiuc.edu/Archives/fwp/EarlyHistory.html

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Jerome Napoleon (1830-93).

Studied at West Point 1848-52, was breveted 2nd lieutenant in the Mounted Rifles. Served in Texas 1853-54, resigned Aug. 1854. Became a 2nd lieutenant, 7th reg. Dragons, French Imperial Army in Sep. 1854. Served as staff officer to general Morris, 1st division Cavalry, at Balaklava, Inkerman, Tchernaia, and the siege of Sebastopol (1854-55). 1st lieutenant 1855. Order of Medjidie (Turkey), Legion of Honor (France), Crimean medal (Britain). Transferred to the 1st reg. Chasseurs d'Afrique, served in Algeria (1856-57). Captain 1859. Served in Italy: Montebello, Solferino (1859). Order of Military Valor (Sardinia). Transferred to 1st reg. Carabiniers 1860. Chef d'escadron (major) 1865. Transferred to Empress' Dragoons reg. 1867. Lieutenant-colonel 1870. Served in the siege of Paris 1870-71. Resigned from the French Army 1871, returned to the United States. Married in 1871 Caroline Le Roy Appleton Edgar, d. of Samuel and Julia Webster Appleton, widow of Newbold Edgar

http://www.rootschat.com/links/030t/

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Shaun J just sent me this one ..... can't find him either .... maybe it's just my eyes !! 

Or George Aldrich !! .... oh boy !!

Well John Bunyan ( "I saw a man clothed with rags … a book in his hand and a great burden upon his back." ) was born in Elstow Bedfordshire and married at age 21 !!..... and William Cowper ( the poet ) was the son of a Hertfordshire rector  and Cook was born in relatively humble circumstances in the village of Marton in North Yorkshire today a suburb belonging to the town of Middlesbrough !! so where was our man - Captain EM Haynes from then ?? 

St. Louis Globe-Democrat, (St. Louis, MO) Sunday, May 07, 1882; pg. 7; Issue 351; col C

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Tennyson's last years were crowned with many honors especially after "The Charge of the Light Brigade " ..... 
the widowed Queen Victoria ranked "In Memoriam" next to the Bible as a solace in her grief ( though I have to say "The Lady of Shalott " was always my favourite !! )
and in 1883 Tennyson was awarded a peerage.
Alfred Lord Tennyson continued writing into his eighties - and died on 6 October 1892 aged 83. He was buried in solemn state at Westminster Abbey on 12 October 1892 and veterans of Balaclava lined the aisle.

He was succeeded as 2nd Baron Tennyson by his son Hallam - who produced an authorised biography of his father in 1897 and was later the second Governor-General of Australia !

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Major Augustus Saltren Willett was a Devonshire man - the eldest son of John Saltren Willet Esq. of Petticombe Monkleigh North Devon.

In the last of Lieutenant John Henry Thompson's letters dated October 23rd - two days before he fell - he wrote, "I have another melancholy bit of news to close this letter with - the awfully sudden death of our poor Major from cholera in eleven hours -  we were going to bury him this morning"
* John Henry Thompson Lieutenant 17th Lancers was killed by a round shot while taking part with his regiment in the heroic Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava, 25th October, 1854.

A kinsman of Major Saltren Willett - Archibald Cleveland of Tapeley Park Instow Devon was also in the 17th Lancers. He was appointed to the Regiment in 1852 as Cornet -  rode unwounded through the Balaklava Charge but was killed at Inkerman on November the 5th ....
* Archibald Cleveland  Cornet 17th Lancers was at the battle of the Alma - charged the rearguard of the Russians, and took several prisoners - shared in the glorious charge of the Light Cavalry at the battle of Balaklava where his horse was mortally wounded - at the battle of Inkerman he was struck by a shell and died of his wound on the following morning 6th November 1854 !

http://www.westleigh-devon.gov.uk/sites/tapeley.htm

*EJ Boys -

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John Platt Winter - Captain of the 17th Lancers.

On the flank march to Balaklava - his troop were ordered to charge the Russian rearguard at Mackenzie's Farm - where they took several prisoners and a quantity of baggage. On 25th October 1854 in the heroic charge of the Light Cavalry at Balaklava, he led the second squadron of his regiment and was seen to fall close to the enemy's guns just as the retreat was sounded - his horse severely wounded by grapeshot, galloped back to the English Lines.

*EJ Boys - Winter Cpt John 17th L

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Captain William Morris  was born at Fishleigh in the Parish of Hatherleigh on December  the 18th 1820. He was the eldest son of William Cholmeley    Morris Esq., of  Fishleigh and Inwardleigh (who matriculated Queens College, Oxford in 1812) by Jane second daughter of James, fourth son of William Mallet Esq. of Ash in the Parish of Iddesleigh !!

Morris exchanged from half pay with the 16th Lancers to the 17th Lancers in February 1847, and joined that Regiment in Dublin. He went to study at the Senior Department of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1849 and passed out with a first class certificate in 1851 and
with extra honours - he became a Captain by purchase the same year.
In 1852 Captain Morris married Amelia, third daughter of Major-General Taylor C.B. of Ogwell, Devon, a Waterloo Officer, late 10th Hussars and at that time  Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Military College.
In 1854 when the war with Russia broke out, he was appointed Deputy  Assistant Quartermaster General,and accompanied the army to Turkey in April of  that year - while engaged at Varna in the duties of his office he was taken ill with  cholera - so was unable to cross with the Army to the Crimea in September, but had recovered sufficiently to join the Headquarter Staff in October before Sebastopol.
   
Very soon after his arrival, he relinquished his Staff appointment to take command of the 17th Lancers -  Major Saltren Willett the Senior Officer present with the Regiment, having died with cholera. Here is part of his story .......

Unwounded he rode past the Batteries with some twenty of his men and came upon a Regiment of Hussars - as he was approaching them he turned round and shouted, "Now remember what I have told you men, and keep together."
Then putting spurs into his charger,"Old Treasurer" he drove full at the squadron confronting him - his sword passed through the body of the Squadron leader but now a Regiment  of Cossacks came to the support of the Hussars, and before Morris could withdraw his sword from the body of the Russian, he received a sabre cut to the left side of his head  and another deep cut which penetrated his skull.
He fell off his horse, stunned. When he recovered consciousness he rose to his feet and endeavoured to defend himself with his sword, but a lance of one of the Cossacks pierced his temple.
He thought his end had come - when a Russian Officer struck up two or three of the Cossack lances and called upon him to surrender, so he yielded up his sword - the Officer to whom Morris had surrendered disappeared, and he found himself at the mercy of the Cossacks, who rushed in upon him and plundered him of all he had about him.
Believing that they intended to kill him, he ran into a volume of smoke, and catching the rein of a riderless horse, was dragged by it for some distance, but soon fell and became again unconscious.
When he regained his senses he managed to mount another riderless horse, and rode as fast as he could back up the valley, but a shot killed the horse and, his strength now exhausted, after staggering on for a bit, he fell and for a third time lost  consciousness.
The Surgeon of the Inniskilling Dragoons - James Mouat - gallantly volunteered to ride out to his assistance, and under fire, dressed his wounds and thus his life was saved.
   
For this act Mouat received the Victoria Cross,

http://www.medalcollector.co.uk/pdf/1350.pdf

Sacred to the memory of
WILLIAM MORRIS
of Fishleigh, Devon,
Brevet Lieut.-Colonel and Major
Her Majesty's 17th Lancers
Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight of the Legion of Honour
And Companion of the Third Class of the
Imperial Order of the Medjidie,
Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General
Of Her Majesty's Forces, Bombay,
Who departed this life 11th July 1858

Morris - Lieutenant-Colonel William, C.B. - 17th Lancers - died 11th July 1858.
Son of William Cholmeley Morris and Jane Mallet, born at Fishleigh, Hatherleigh, Devon, 18th December 1820. Served (with 16th Lancers) at Maharajpore (star), Aliwal (wounded) and Sobroan (medal) and Crimea (17th Lancers, medal). Husband of Amelia Taylor (daughter of Major-General Taylor C.B. of Ogwell, Devon, late 10th Hussars (served Waterloo) and Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Military College.
Memorial at Poona church - "Sacred to the memory of William Morris of Fishleigh, Devon, Brevet Lieut.-Colonel and Major Her Majesty's 17th Lancers Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath Knight of the Legion of Honour And Companion of the Third Class of the Imperial Order of the Medjidie, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General Of Her Majesty's Forces, Bombay, who departed this life 11th July 1858, at Poona. This tablet is erected by his Brother Officers as a mark of esteem for his character as a friend and a distinguished soldier. Maharajpore  Sobraon Budiwal Balaklava Aliwal Sebastopol."

http://members.tripod.com/Glosters/offzdiedm.htm

*EJ Boys - Cpt   William Morris 17th Lancers

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James Mouat was born on April 14 1815 at Chatham Kent the son of Surgeon James Mouat MD who was medical officer to the 23rd, 25th, 21st, 16th,13th, F., 4th and 15th Dragoons. His uncle was Dr F.J. Mouat distinguished in the Indian Civil Medical Service.

James Mouat, the son, was educated at University College Hospital London - became MRCS in 1837, and proceeded FRCS in 1852. One year after qualification he joined the 44th Regiment of Foot as Assistant Surgeon. Ten years later he was promoted Surgeon and served throughout the Crimean Campaign with the 6th Dragoons, where he was also in charge of the General Field Hospital of the 3rd Division. He was present at the Fall of Sebastopol, the Battles of Tehernaya and Inkerman, and at the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava his gallantry resulted in the award of the Victoria Cross -

"Date of act of Bravery - 26th Oct 1854. For having voluntarily proceeded to the assistance of Lieut. Colonel Morris, CB, 17th Lancers, who was lying dangerously wounded in an exposed position after the retreat of Light Cavalry at the Battle of Balaklava, and having dressed the officer's wounds in the presence and under a heavy fire of the enemy. Thus by stopping a severe haemorrhage, he assisted in saving that officer's life".

During the campaign Surgeon Mouat was appointed to the French Legion of Honour, and gained the Crimean Medal with three clasps. In 1855 he was promoted Surgeon Major, and a year later was appointed a Commander of the Order of the Bath. Aged 43 he was given the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals whilst serving in Turkey.
From 1860 to 1861 and again from 1863 to 1865 he served in New Zealand in the Maori Wars, during the latter campaign as Inspector General of Hospitals, being promoted to Surgeon General in 1864. The New Zealand government voted him "special thanks for his valuable Services to the Colony", he was mentioned in despatches and was awarded the campaign medal.
Surgeon General Mouat retired in 1876, was appointed an honorary Surgeon to the Queen in 1888, and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1894.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7707116

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Lt Frederick Henry Cheshire was born in Whipton in 1833. He was a member of the 8th Hussars who made that fateful charge at Balaclava on the 27th April 1854, when he lost a leg in the action. The Light Brigade consisted of the 8th and 11th Hussars, 4th and 13th Light Dragoons and the 17th Lancers, under the command of Major General the Earl of Cardigan. The action was a disaster and 118 men were killed, 127 wounded, and 362 horses lost

FREDERICK HENRY CHESHIRE
LATE 8TH HUSSARS
ONE OF THE SIX HUNDRED
WHO DIED FEB. 16TH 1912
AGED 79

http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/EM/exetergraves.html

Trumpeter James Donoghue

There is a second survivor from the Charge of the Light Brigade buried in Exeter. Trumpeter James Donoghue enlisted in 1848 and sailed for the Crimea on the H T Medora in April 1854. He had his horse shot from under him in the charge. He later became the Band Master of the 1st (Exeter and South Devon) Volunteer Regiment and lived in Blackboy Road. His burial place is currently unknown.