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Crimean War is in 1850-1900 Second Half of the 19th Century.
On 20th September 1854 Charles Pierrepont Darcy Lane-Fox (age 24) was wounded, Poulett George Henry Somerset (age 32) fought.
Major-General John Douglas (age 37) commanded the 79th Regiment of Foot.
William Frederick Waldegrave (age 38) died from wounds received.
Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 37) was shot through the arm.
General George Augustus Frederick Paget (age 36), Godfrey Morgan 1st Viscount Tredegar (age 23) and Hedworth Jolliffe 2nd Baron Hylton (age 25) fought.
Arthur Williams-Wynn (age 35), Captain of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was killed.
On 20th September 1854 Captain William Monck (age 31) was killed at the Battle of Alma.
The London Gazette 21971. [24th February 1857]. Scots Fusilier Guards. Brevet Major Robert James Lindsay (age 24). When the formation of the line of the Regiment was disordered at Alma, Captain Lindsay stood firm with the Colours, and by his example and energy, greatly tended to restore order. At Inkerman, at a most trying moment, he, with a few men, charged a party of Russians, driving them back, and running one through the body himself.
On 25th October 1854 Poulett George Henry Somerset (age 32) and William Archer Amherst 3rd Earl Amherst (age 18) fought.
Major-General John Douglas (age 37) commanded the 79th Regiment of Foot.
General George Augustus Frederick Paget (age 36) and Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 37) fought.
On 25th October 1854 during the Battle of Balaclava George Charles Bingham 3rd Earl Lucan (age 54) gave the order for the Charge of the Light Brigade which was then led by his brother-in-law James Brudenell 7th Earl Cardigan (age 57).
Hedworth Jolliffe 2nd Baron Hylton (age 25) took part.
Godfrey Morgan 1st Viscount Tredegar (age 23) was in command of a section of the Light Brigade. His horse "Sir Briggs" survived, died aged twenty-eight and was buried in the Cedar Garden at Tredegar House, Monmouthshire where there is a monument to him.
Thomas Hutton took part. He was shot through the right thigh during the advance, and on returning from the guns he was again severely wounded through the left thigh.
George Orby Wombwell 4th Baronet (age 21) took part and survived. His horse was killed under him and he was shortly after pulled off and taken prisoner, his sword and pistols being taken from him by some Russian Lancers. He managed to escape, catch another loose horse and ride back to the British lines, pursued by Russians.
Fiennes Wykeham-Martin Cornwallis (age 22) took part.
1905. John Charlton (age 56). The Charge of the Light Brigade, the Battle of Balaclava, 25th October 1854, with Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (age 73), Astride His Horse, "Sir Briggs".
On 5th November 1854 at the Battle of Inkerman..
Granville Charles Cornwallis Eliot (age 26) and Cavendish Hubert Greville (age 19) were killed.
Poulett George Henry Somerset (age 32) fought; his horse was killed under him by a shell.
William Archer Amherst 3rd Earl Amherst (age 18) was wounded.
Hedworth Jolliffe 2nd Baron Hylton (age 25) and Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (age 24) fought.
Captain William Kent Allix (age 31) was killed in action whilst serving with the 1st Royal Regiment.
Robert Lydston Newman 2nd Baronet (age 32) was killed in action. His brother Lydston (age 30) succeeded 3rd Baronet Newman of Stokeley and Mamhead in Devon.
Charles Francis Seymour-Conway (age 35) was killed in action.
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After 5th November 1854. St Martin's Church, Ancaster [Map]. Memorial to Captain William Kent Allix (deceased) who was killed at the Battle of Inkerman.
Captain William Kent Allix: Before 5th November 1804 he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to General George de Lacy Evans. On 9th April 1823 he was born to Colonel Charles Allix and Mary Elizabeth Hammond at Willoughby Hall. He was educated at Harrow School where there is a memorial plaque to him.
The London Gazette 21997. War-Office, May 5, 1857.
The Queen (age 37) has been graciously pleased to signify Her intention to confer the Decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned Officers of Her Majesty's Army, who have been recommended to Her Majesty for that Decoration,—in accordance with the rules laid down in Her Majesty's Warrant of the 29th of January, 1856,—on account of acts of bravery performed by them before the Enemy during the late War, as recorded against their several names; viz.
Grenadier Guards. Colonel Hon. Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 37). Date of Act of Bravery, 5th November, 1854 [ at the Battle of Inkerman]
At a moment when the Guards were at some distance from the Sand Bag Battery, at the Battle of Inkerman, Colonel Percy charged singly into the battery, followed immediately by the Guards; the embrasures of the battery, as also the parapet, were held by the Russians, who kept up a most severe fire of musketry.
At the Battle of Inkerman Colonel Percy, found himself with many men of various regiments, who had charged too far, nearly surrounded by the Russians, and without ammunition. Colonel Percy, by his knowledge of ground, though wounded, extricated these men, and, passing under a heavy fire from the Russians then in the Sand Bag Battery, brought them safe to where ammunition was to be obtained, thereby saving some fifty men, and enabling them to renew the combat. He received the approval of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, for this action, on the spot.—Colonel Percy was engaged with, and put hors de combat, a Russian soldier.
1874. Elizabeth Thompson Lady Butler (age 27). "Calling the Roll After An Engagement, Crimea" aka "The Roll Call". Depicting a roll call of soldiers from the Grenadier Guards during the Crimean War. It was taken to depict an occasion following the Battle of Inkerman in 1854
1877. Elizabeth Thompson Lady Butler (age 30). "The Return from Inkerman".