One for Liverpool Annie Part 2

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Continued .....

17th LANCERS

Pte Charles Aldows - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte William Baker - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte John Bow - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Walter Brooks - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte George Broom - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Henry Carter - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Thomas Corcoran - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Richard Dollar - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Patrick Dowling - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte George Flowers - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Henry Gray - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Corporal James Hall - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte William Harrison - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Robert Jackson - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854. Listed on the Crimea Memorial in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Pte John Lees - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Robert Ling - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Robert McNeill - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Frederick Melrose - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Charles Mitton - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte Henry Pearce - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
No. 985 Pte R.F. Robinson - killed at the Battle of Inkermann 5 November 1855
Pte Johnson Sewell - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte James Stamage - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Sergeant Edward Talbot - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Pte John Wilson - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854
Corporal C. Wrigley - killed at Balaklava 25 October 1854

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Thomas Everard - Hutton born Beverley 1821 - son of Henry Hutton Barrister at Law of Lincoln.

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp02342&rNo=0&role=sit

4th Light Dragoons - died 10 June 1896 in Bath and buried Locksbrook Cemetery Bath

"When one of Low’s troop leaders Captain Thomas Hutton who was wounded in the
right thigh as he charged down the valley - turned to Low his senior to ask for orders - he was told that if he could still sit on his horse he may as well stick with the crowd "

http://www.rootschat.com/links/031d/

* EJ Boys - Hutton Captain Thomas 4th LD

I found this site of photos from Locksbrook Cemetery Bath .... I have a squint from looking at the names ... just in case .... but I didn't see him I'm afraid !! wonder if somebody else can ??

http://community.webshots.com/album/314323024Ebeqha

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Charles MacAuley born Rawcliffe Nr Goole 1828 8th Hussars - died 5 Jan 1905 in Leeds - buried Woodhouse Cemetery - headstone moved .....

Woodhouse Cemetery is now part of the Leeds University Campus and is called St George's Fields - the headstones and memorials were removed from the cemetery in 1968

* EJ Boys - Macaulay ( Macauley )   Pte   Charles 1057    8th H

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Francis Dickinson born 1830 Sheffield - he was a Troop Sergeant in the 17th Lancers and died in June 1898 ..... after the war he lived in London Preston and Blackpool - and he is buried in Layton Cemetery Blackpool 

( he was buried in the middle of what is now the open area ... I also have another date of death ... died 13 February 1901 !!)

Francis Dickinson
One of the six hundred
The words above were engraved on the gravestone of Francis Dickinson.

He was one of the soldiers who fought in the notorious Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean war - the cavalry was wrongly sent into battle only to be slaughtered by Russian cannon fire. 670 horsemen were ordered to charge the enemy and only 195 returned - Francis Dickinson was among them

I can't help but include this soldier .......

George Partington 1837 – 1902

There is no inscription on the memorial as the brass plaque from the grave has disappeared. George Partington fought in the Crimean war when he was 17 .... he absconded from college to enlist in the army and rode in the Heavy Brigade - which was the cavalry that followed the Light Brigade into the valley of death. In 1854 he was seriously wounded by a Cossack but was nursed by the 'lady of the lamp' Florence Nightingale, recovered from his wounds and retired to Sheffield.

Ironically - he survived the Battles of Balaclava and Inkerman and the siege of Sebastopol but died after being thrown from his horse and trap! An impressive military funeral was held in March 1902 with full honours - thousands came, and the footpath on Sharrowvale Road was reported to be ‘thickly lined with spectators’.  His coffin, covered in a Union Jack, was held on a gun carriage, and drawn by six horses.  On top of the coffin was his ‘gleaming helmet’.  The scene at the graveside was described as ‘very impressive’, a silent gathering around a roped off area at the grave, among them veteran soldiers, and the firing party ‘a bright blot of colour amid the sombrely-clothed assembly’.  In his address the chaplain spoke of Partington as a brave and good soldier, who ‘when our country had been threatened with sinking to a third rate power’ had fought brilliantly.  Once retired Mr Partington had worked assiduously on behalf of less fortunate veteran soldiers.  His obituary spoke of ‘the enthusiasm and the bright flashing of the late Mr Partington’s eyes’ when he thought of helping a ‘very poor brother who was very sick or in need’

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Here's the other William Pearson ....

William Pearson ...... Born Doncaster 1825
Died 14 June 1909 in York - buried York Cemetery grave 554

William Pearson -
Memorial at York Cemetery, North Yorkshire - "In loving memory of Jessie B. White Died April 18th 1931 Also John W. White husband of the above, killed in France August 16th 1916. Also William Pearson Hero of Balaklava died June 14th 1909 aged 84."

* EJ Boys - Pearson   Pte   William    939    17th Lancers

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James Devlin - born 1834 died 3rd of February 1892

"A group of veterans - some of whom bore scars, attended in February, 1892 the burial of James Devlin late of the Adjutant-General's office, one of the survivors of the "Six Hundred " in the cavalry charge of Balaclava. That he should have escaped what Tennyson calls "The mouth of hell," and nearly 40 years after found a grave in the peaceful seclusion of Glasnevin Cemetery was a blessing which his family gratefully recognised."

From 'History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries' (William J. Fitzpatrick 1900)

He was buried in Grave No. AC75 (South) on the 6th of February 1892 and a head-stone was erected over the grave.

Extracts from the Irish Times of the 5th of February 1892 -

“Devlin - February 3rd., at his residence, 8 Connaught Terrace, Garville Road, Rathgar, James Devlin, Esq., late Chief Clerk, Adjutant-General's Department, Dublin Castle, aged 58 years. Funeral will leave at 10 o'clock tomorrow (Saturday) morning for Glasnevin Cemetery, R.I.P."

http://www.redcoat.info/crimeodds.htm

http://www.chargeofthelightbrigade.com/allmen/allmenD/allmenD_4LD/devlin_j_1447_4LD/devlin_j_1447_4LD.html

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And I'm including this soldier too ....

George Ellis - 4th Light Dragoons

Obituary in the 'Trowbridge Advertiser' (18th October 1856) - "Our dead heroes. It is now our privilege to speak of one who has been more intimately associated with us, who has lived among us, and gained our respect in his private as well as public capacity, who has recently died amongst us full of honours but not of years who has departed this life at the age of fifty years, thirty four of which were spent in the service of his country  a period sufficient to cover him with honour, but too brief for that country's benefit. We now speak of Captain George Ellis, late of H.M. 4th Light Dragoons, the first officer ever interred here who's funeral took place this 10th instant whilst our last impression was in press. And (en passant ) we must express our disgust at the turbulent and indecent crowding round the procession, of a number of ill behaved boys and girls whose conduct, however much actuated by curiosity and not by premeditation, was a disgrace to the innate feelings of natural village peasantry and which misbehaviour is utterly disavowed by the decent and respectable portion of the community. This Captain Ellis was a native of Birmingham, of very humble origin; a man of most estimable piety  a good soldier, a strict disciplinarian, thoroughly conversant with the minutest details of his profession, beloved by his fellow officers and regarded by his men as a father and a friend. In addition to his claims on our respect for having served his country in India (he was at the taking of Ghuznee in 1839)  and for having served in the Crimea, whence he was invalided after being present at Alma and Inkermann he suffering from illness at the time of the Balaclava charge he demands our further admiration from the fact that without being possessed of the adventitious aids of birth or wealth (he rose from the ranks and was formerly a private soldier in our very barracks) he elevated himself by his merit to the proud position of Captain in one of her Majesty's most distinguished regiments. To persons acquainted with the difficulties and obstacles in the way of attaining such a position, the extraordinary merits of the man will be at once apparent. His minister, the Reverent Incumbent of the Trinity Church, spoke most feelingly of him, on Sunday last  of his earnest piety and of his constant attendance at the services of the church. The writer himself has often noted there his devotional and unassuming bearing; and it is not too much to say of him that he was one of natures worthies, a man who became "in rank what he was in heart  a gentleman" a man who rose with moderation and filled his every station with becoming dignity but without ostentation, a man to whom belonged the rare merit of bearing prosperity with modesty, ever mindful of others feelings whose rise excited no envy amongst the soldiers with whom he had associated and over whom he was called on to command; and who was welcomed by those officers and gentlemen who had been his former superiors. Whether the day will ever come when promotion shall become more frequent from the ranks, and when most assuredly more of the younger sons of the clergy and gentry will enter, bringing with them the "elan" and "esprit" of public schools and colleges, this writer is not prepared to argue nor even venture an opinion on its desirability, but this can at all events be asserted that the conduct of Captain George Ellis is an instance in its favour. We now have a few words to address to our fellow townsmen :- for years past, as great poet, the Rev. George Crabb, has slept his last sleep amongst us. To his memory a fit monument has been raised. It would be but a grateful tribute to the departed worth if we raised, by public subscription, a tomb over all that is mortal of Captain Ellis. It would be a monument to which our descendants might point with pride saying "behold the grave of a Christian , a gentleman and a soldier!. Our fathers in honouring him honoured themselves for amid the strife of a busy world they found time to perpetuate his memory and raised with willing hearts the record of a British hero"

http://www.redcoat.info/crimeodds.htm

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Edmund Herbert - 8th Hussars

Memorial at St Matthew Twigworth Gloucestershire -

"To the memory of Edmund Herbert of the Light Brigade who fell at Balaclava on October 25th 1854 son of Samuel and Emilia Herbert late of this parish and uncle of John Henry Roberts."

http://www.redcoat.info/crimeodds.htm

*EJ Boys - Herbert Pte Edmund 793 8th H

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Presented to Lord Lucan (1800-1888)

in 1887 for his many military achievements, including the Command of the Cavalry Division in the Crimea - the 55cm. long baton features an 18ct gold top surmounted by a superbly modeled equestrian figure of St. George with the dragon. Covered in its original Imperial purple velvet and studded with 18 gold lions, the baton bears the inscription, ‘From Her Majesty Alexandria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to Field Marshal The Right Hon. “The Earl of Lucan G.C.B.”.

One of most celebrated personalities of the Victorian era, the Third Earl of Lucan was born in London in 1800 and entered the British Army in 1816. His career flourished thereafter from 1826-1830, he was M.P. for County Mayo and in 1840 was elected a representative peer of Ireland.

In 1854, Lord Lucan was appointed to the command of the Cavalry Division of the Eastern Army in Turkey. He served in the Crimea with some distinction, notably at Balaklava on 25 October 1854, where some 2,000 advancing Russian Cavalry were driven back by the brilliant charge of the Heavy Brigade made under Lord Lucan’s direction. After defeating and breaking the Russian Cavalry in the morning with less than half their number, he launched the famous ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ in the afternoon, in accordance with what seemed to be the reasonable interpretation of the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Raglan’s ambiguous order to advance, ‘Lord Raglan wishes the cavalry to advance rapidly to the front and try to prevent the enemy carrying away the guns. Troop of Horse Artillery may accompany. French Cavalry is on your left. Immediate.’ All subsequent efforts to prove that Lucan was wrong in his interpretation of that order, to advance into the ‘valley of death’, failed.

Lord Lucan was wounded in the leg by a bullet during these operations and the Light Brigade was reduced from 600 men to less than 200 and two heavy cavalry regiments were depleted. Lord Lucan vindicated himself in the House of Lords in 1855 and received the Medal with four clasps for his services in the Crimea, Decorations from France and Turkey and was created K.C.B. the same year. In 1887, his military achievements were fully rewarded with his promotion to Field Marshal