Crimean War

SGT FREDERICK SHORT 4th LIGHT DRGOONS AWARDED DCM FOR DISPOSING OF SEVERAL RUSSIANS AND MATERIALLY PREVENTING THE ENEMY FROM REMOVING THE GUNS

DON COSSACK RUSSIAN GUNNER DEFENDING HIMSELF

CORNET ARCHIBALD CLEVELAND 17th LANCERS EXCHANGED INTO 17th FROM THE 7th DRAGOON GUARDS IN 1852 . HE WAS LATER SEVERLEY WOUNDED AT INKERMAN AND DIED THE FOLLOWING DAY.

CPL JAMES NUNNERLEY 17th LANCERS ENLISTED 1847 , PROMOTED TO SERGEANT THE DAY FOLLOWING THE CHARGE , DISCHARGED IN 1857, JOINED THE LANCASHIRE HUSSARS AND RETIRED AS SERGEANT MAJOR IN 1881, DIED IN 1905

BORN IN 1831 MORLEY WORKED AS AN ENGINEER PRIOR TO ENLISTIG IN 1849. PROMOTED TO CORPORAL IN MAY 1854. HE CHARGED IN THE FIRST LINE OF THE 17th AND AFTER GAINING THE BATTERY, RALLIED SOME TWENTY FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE BRIGADE AND CHARGED BACK THROUGH A MASS OF RUSSIAN HUSSARS SCATTERING THEM LIKE CHAFF. PROMOTED TO SERGEANT HE LATER SERVED AT INKERMAN AND THEN HE PURCHASED HIS DISCHARGE IN...

PRIVATE JAMES WEBSTER BORN 1847. SURVIVED THE CHARGE UNSCATHED. EMBARKED FOR INDIA AND THE MUTINY 1857 AND SAW ACTION AT ZIRAPORE AND BARODA. ON RETURN TO ENGLAND SERVED AT SANDHURST UNTIL RETIREMENT IN 1871. DIED AT FRMLEY,SURREY IN 1893.

JOINED REGIMENT 1853, PROMOTED TO LEIUTENANT 1855, CAPTAIN 1857, BREVET MAJOR 1858, RETIRED 1862.

WOUNDED AND TAKEN PRISONER IN THE CHARGE

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