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I have found it so hard to find Russian accounts of the battle - but I was delighted to find this !! 
Memoirs of a Former Artilleryman
(This is a translation of a memoir by an unknown officer of the Don Cossack artillery. These memoirs are remarkable for containing eyewitness accounts of the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman. The translator says ..... "the anonymous author makes some obvious errors regarding certain aspects of the English and French forces, but I have left these stand since they demonstrate what kind of rumors and misconceptions were current in the theater of war. This source is not referred to by Seaton or Curtiss, or indeed any other English-language historian, and I suspect by no Russian historians either. As an addition to the literature available on the Charge of the Light Brigade, it should be especially valuable. Dates have been converted to the Western calendar ")
The artillery battle ended with the taking of Redoubt No. 3, and Don Heavy No. 3 Battery withdrew to Redoubt No. 1 to deploy with an extended front across the Balaklava Valley. On its right it had the Fedyukhin Heights on which were deployed General Zhabokritskii’s infantry, while on the left, in the redoubts, was the infantry of General Liprandi. In the battery’s rear were the two hussar regiments: in echelon behind (26), on the right flank – the Leuchtenberg, and on the left – the Weimar in columns by squadron (27). Ural Cossack No. 1 Regiment stood at the foot of the Fedyukhin Heights, with a sotnia of Aleksandrin’s Regiment to its left, under the command of Voiskovoi Starshina (28) Kon’kov. To the right of the Don battery was deployed Colonel Brombeus’s Horse-Artillery No. 12 Battery.
In order to counter our success in occupying the three redoubts, the enemy prepared a cavalry attack on our forces. For this he sent forward a regiment of French dragoons and Queen Victoria’s Guards Cuirassier Regiment, under the command of Lord Cardigan. Upon noticing the movement of the enemy cavalry, General Liprandi sent his adjutant to tell our battery to prepare to receive a cavalry attack. In fact, as soon as the adjutant galloped off, the English cavalry passed by the redoubts at a trot in orderly formation and then at a gallop fell onto the right flank of Don Heavy No. 3 Battery, which opened up with rapid canister shell fire (29). The cavalry closed up its torn-open files and pressed forward, as brave as a whirlwind, with all the officers in front. The battery started canister fire (30), managing to fire some 32 rounds, which tore out whole files from the regiment, so that barely a third of the Englishmen reached the battery. * Lord Cardigan on a white horse was far ahead of the regiment, and he galloped up to the battery and brandished his saber at the guns… Although the First Division limbered up in time, Sotnik Rebinin used the command, "Pull back" (31) instead of "Limbers back" (32), and the gun trails plowed into the ground and the tired horses halted (33).** Surrounded by the English, the division defended itself as best it could. All the crew members with ramrods worked them with a will, defending themselves and the guns. In this hand-to-hand fight the first ramrod number, Cossack Studenikin, especially distinguished himself. Of great physical strength, he struck the English with terrible blows of his ramrod, felling eight men and saving Sotnik Rebinin when several cavalrymen rushed at him, wounding him twice in the neck and stabbing him once in the right side with a broadsword. The rear driver of the first gun, Cossack Nikulin of the Veshenskaya Settlement, had his throat run through by an Englishman’s lance; he lost his voice, but is still alive today.
* It was Captain Oldham who was on the white horse !!
** What had happened was that Rebinin had given the technical command to pull back using ropes connected from the gun to the limber without first hooking the trail onto the limber, which would have been done had the "Limbers back" command been given.
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In the meantime, the Second Division successfully limbered up on the command "Limbers back!", and rode off in time, except for the fifth gun, whose horses got tangled in their harness. I was with the gun, and after the horses were freed and the guns hooked onto the limber, I took hold of the lead horse’s traces and shouted, "Go!" The gun drew away at a full trot, but after withdrawing about 100 yards, it was surrounded by enemy cuirassiers. One of them even swung his long straight sword over my head, but Cossack Popov covered me with his shashka sword, and Cossack Sherstyugin, a ramrod number, wounded my attacker in the arm with a pistol shot. I picked up the wounded man’s sword and struck his horse’s nose so hard that it reared up and threw its rider onto the ground, where the cossack ran him through. At this time, on Sotnik Ponomarev’s command, the horse tenders led the horses to the guns, the crew numbers quickly jumped onto them, and along with the Second Division’s remaining crew that had galloped up, they threw themselves to the rescue of the First Division, shashkas in hand and commanded by Ponomarev and myself. Now a desperate hand-to-hand fight ensued. Under the command of Voiskovoi Starshina Porfirii Kon’kov, the sotnia from Colonel Aleksandrin’s Regiment hurried to aid the artillerymen, and from this moment there began a general slaughter of the English, who would lose consciousness and be dragged along the ground and perish. Lord Cardigan, seeing the destruction of the cavalry he was leading, turned back and was quickly carried toward the redoubts by his thoroughbred steed, but he was not destined to reach them. His horse was hit by crossfire from the infantry and fell down while galloping at full speed, killing the earl. The next day his body was turned over to the allies and buried with great honor.
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Alexis Benoît Soyer was born on 4 February 1810 at Meaux-en-Brie on the Marne in France. He was the youngest son of Emery Roch Alexis Soyer, a grocer, and his wife Marie Chamberlan. The couple had five sons: Alexis was the youngest. However two of the sons - Paul and Rene - died. When Alexis was born, Marie thought he was a blessing, therefore she wanted him to enter the Church. However, he did not choose that calling in life.
Between 1821 and 1826 he served as apprentice to a cook at Grignon, near Versailles and then was employed by the Boulevard des Italiens, where he worked for about three years, soon becoming chief cook over twelve men. In June 1830 he was second cook to Prince Polignac at the French Foreign Office, but left France during the July revolution (1830) and in 1831 he accepted employment in the London kitchen of the Duke of Cambridge. Subsequently he worked for the Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Waterford, William Lloyd of Aston Hall, Oswestry, and the Marquis of Ailsa at Isleworth. In 1837 he was appointed as chef to the Reform Club, London. On the day of Queen Victoria's coronation (28 June 1838) he prepared a breakfast for two thousand guests at the club.
In February 1847 Soyer wrote letters to the public press about the famine in Ireland, and in April he was appointed by the government to go to Dublin where he built and opened kitchens from where he sold soup and meat at half the usual cost. While there, he published a sixpenny book, Soyer's Charitable Cookery, giving part of the proceeds to various charities.
In 1849 he began to market his 'magic stove' with which food could be cooked on the table. It proved to be very successful. In May 1850 he resigned from his post as chef at the Reform Club, where his salary and fees brought him in almost £1,000 a year. In May 1851 he opened Gore House, Kensington, as a restaurant, hoping that the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park would bring him numerous customers. Although the restaurant was well patronised, the venture resulted in a loss of £7,000
On 2 February 1855 he wrote to The Times offering to go to the Crimea at his own expense to advise on the cooking for the army there. He began by revising the diet sheets for the hospitals at Scutari and Constantinople. In two visits to Balaklava he, Florence Nightingale and the medical staff reorganised the provisioning of the hospitals; he also began to cook for the fourth division of the army. On 3 May 1857 he returned to London, and on 18 March 1858 he lectured at the United Service Institution on cooking for the army and navy. He also built a model kitchen at the Wellington Barracks, London.
He died on 5 August 1858 at St. John's Wood, London and was buried on 11 August in Kensal Green cemetery
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Thought Kenhar would like this one !!
Timothy Gowing was born on 5 April 1834 at Halesworth in Suffolk where his father was a Baptist minister. In 1839 the family moved to Norwich where Gowing grew up and was educated. John Gowing was the minister of Pitt Street Baptist Church in the city for twenty-four years; and continued to live in the city after retiring. Gowing was fascinated by "things military" and was gripped by the excitement generated by the events of the Russo-Turkish War of 1853-4. He was approaching his twentieth birthday, 'a dangerous age to many unsettled in mind', as Gowing said.
Early in January 1854 he enlisted as a Private in the Royal Fusiliers. His training began in Manchester and continued in Winchester; in June 1854 he went to the Crimea. He survived the campaign although he was wounded on several occasions: he even managed to survive a stay in the military hospital in Malta. At the end of the Crimean War, Gowing was sent to India where the Mutiny had broken out in 1857. His descriptions of events there reflect British attitudes of the time.
Gowing had been promoted to Sergeant during the Crimean War; in 1858 he became the Regimental drill-sergeant; he also married for the first time: the couple had twelve children. From drill-sergeant, he was promoted to Colour-Sergeant and in July 1859 he was appointed as acting Sergeant-Major. He was offered the opportunity of a commission in one of the Sepoy regiments but declined the offer, preferring to remain with the Royal Fusiliers. In 1862 he was offered a commission in the Royal Fusiliers but once more he declined, this time on financial grounds. He did not think that he would be able to support his growing family (of five children in four years of marriage) on an officer's pay.
In 1864, having completed a ten-year enlistment, he re-enlisted for a further term, to give himself a full twenty-one years' service and thus qualify for a pension. He remained in India during this time. His family was all but wiped out by cholera in 1869: only one child of the eight survived. The other seven died on the same day. His wife also died in India and when Gowing returned to England in 1876, at the age of 42, he took only two of the children born to him in India.
Gowing went to live in Southport and re-married, fathering another seven children; his second wife died in 1890. His third wife, Elizabeth, survived her husband. Between returning to England and his death, Gowing lived in a number of different towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire. He had his account of the Crimean War and his service in India during the Mutiny published privately and sold them to office and factory workers in Lancashire: other than his army pension of 2/6d a day, this was his only income. Timothy Gowing died on 3 February 1908 at the age of 74
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Did I do this one already ?? 
John Doyle, (abt. 1828 - August 1892) was an Irishman who served in the Eighth King's Royal Irish Hussars (a light cavalry unit) as a Private soldier during the Crimean War and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Doyle was born at Birr, Ireland, about 1828 and died at Liverpool, England in August, 1892. Doyle enlisted in the British Cavalry at Newbridge, Ireland in 1850. His brother, Patrick, had signed up as an infantryman and died when his transport, HMS Birkenhead struck a reef off Cape Agulhas, S.A.
He rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. Survived lightly wounded, uncaptured.
Fought at four major Crimean War battles: Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
Member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society.
Published a memoir of his service titled "A Descriptive Account of the Famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava" in Manchester, 1877
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"Bull Run Russell" ......... The first modern war correspondent won a nickname, much Northern ill will, and a lasting reputation out of his account of a famous battle
Shortly after dawn on a pleasant midsummer morning just a century ago - a two-horse gig drew up in front of private lodgings on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Inside the house a stout middle-aged gentleman finished his cup of tea, put more tea in a container, picked up a paper of sandwiches and a bottle of light Bordeaux, and then thoughtfully stopped to fill his brandy Mask. A moment later, clad in a khaki “Himalayan” suit, a brown felt hat, and an old pair of boots, the man appeared on the street to inspect the vehicle. The date was July 21 1861 and The Times of London -
in the person of William Howard Russell was out to cover what turned out to be the First Battle of Bull Run.
Russell was easily the most celebrated newspaper correspondent of his day. Irish-born, he had joined The Times in 1842 as a press gallery reporter in the House of Commons. Subsequently, he had covered the potato famine and the O’Connell sedition trial in Ireland, the Schleswig-Holstein rebellion on the Continent, and the Sepoy Mutiny in India. He had won a world-wide reputation by his reports from the front during the Crimean War in 1851–55. His revelations of military incompetence at the highest level had toppled a British government - his descriptions of inadequate hospital facilities in the field had been indirectly responsible for Florence Nightingale’s famous mission of mercy - and his stirring account of the Battle of Balaclava may well have inspired a stay-at-home, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to compose “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”
There is, unfortunately, no denying that a man who was born in 1820 was born a long time ago. The inventor and pioneer of the trade of "war correspondent" has just died, in his eighty-seventh year, without recalling to the minds of the generation now in the vigor of life the fact that he was by far the most influential of war correspondents.
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These next few are the Australian ones !! ..... I though I may as well get them in the open !! .... I love these because they are so full of quality information !! 
James NEAL - Rode in the Charge James Neal was born in the parish of St. Luke's, London he enlisted at Hounslow on 8 August 1851 into the 8th Hussars at the age of 18, his trade being that of a hatter. He served in all ranks from Pte to Quarter-Master Sgt. But reverting to Sgt. `at his own request', he was appointed to Sgt. I/c. Musketry before being discharged `Free to pension after 21 years service' from Longford, Ireland in November of 1873.
His wife was Eliza Neal. She is shown on the Regtl. `Married roll' from 9 October 1856. There were no known children in the family. His wife was an Acting School-Mistress in the Regimental School at one period.
Neal was to live in Coupar, Scotland, but was living in Perth, Australia, from 1875. He was entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps `Alma', `Balaclava', `Inkerman' and `Sebastopol'.
Neal was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, being recommended for it on 12 January 1855 and receiving a gratuity of 10 [pounds sterling]. It is not known under what circumstances this was awarded. He was also awarded the Mutiny medal with clasp `Central India', and the Long Service and Good Conduct medal.
John Thomas BAMBRICK - Rode in the Charge
John Thomas Bambrick was born in Shajupre, India, on 6 February 1832, the son of Troop Sgt Major John Bambrick of the 11th Light Dragoons and his wife, Harriet Ann. He was baptised at Meerut on 14 March 1832. He enlisted into the Rifle Brigade in September 1849, joining the 2nd Bn at Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight, and transferred to the 11th Hussars on 1 March 1850, before again being transferred to the 2nd Life Guards on the 31 of July 1857. He was discharged from Windsor in September 1858.
Bambrick was entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps `Alma', `Balaclava', `Inkerman' and `Sebastopol'. He was awarded the Knight of the Legion of Honour (5th Class), shown in the London Gazette for 4 August 1856 as for `bravery at Balaclava.' It states:
`Rode next to 1495 Sgt. Robert Davies at Balaclava and endeavoured to help
him capture a Russian gun that the crew was trying to get away from the
field of battle. His horse was later killed under him.'
He emigrated to Australia and died at Bourke, NSW, on 17 October 1893, recorded as being aged 65 years. However, his date of birth would have made him only 61. The cause of death was stated as `Asthma, (2 years)'. He was buried in Grave No. 91. Church of England Section, in Bourne Cemetery. No plan of this cemetery is now in existence and no memorial stone was erected.
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This gives me a lump in my throat !! 
Samuel SAMER - Rode in the Charge
Samuel Samer was born at Littlebury, Essex. Although no baptismal entry can yet be found for him, he was most probably a son of John Seamer and his wife, Amy (nee Abrahams), who were married at Littlebury on 18 April 1824. He enlisted at Coventry on 26 November 1849 into the 11th Hussars at the age of 18.
Severely wounded in action at Balaclava and being invalided to England (via Malta), he was discharged from the Invalid Depot at Chatham in May of 1855 -
`Being considered unfit for further military service. Disabled by the
contraction of right elbow joint and loss of power of hands from a gun-shot
wound of firearm received at Balaclava.'
He emigrated to Australia (Melbourne) some time in 1857. He was entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps `Alma', `Balaclava', and `Sebastopol'.
The Melbourne Argus of 2 June 1899 provided the following obituary -
`Samuel Seamer (sic) whose death occurred on Wednesday last at the Kew Lunatic Asylum was one of the Light Brigade in 1853 (sic). Samuel Seamer was born 74 years ago at Littlebury Green, in the village of Saffron Walden, Essex. At the age of 17 he went to Kent and enlisted into the 11th Hussars. It is extremely possible that he saw service in some other lands besides the Crimea, for in his description record taken at the time of his entry into the Lunatic Department his wounds appear so many that one campaign could scarcely account for them all.
`Seamer had a large scar on the left shoulder, apparently a slash from a sword, a bullet wound distorting the bones of his right forearm, a stab wound in the left temple, in all probability the injury which caused him to lose his reason, a stab wound on the outer part of the left thigh and other small wounds over his body and arms. What a stirring picture could be conjured up by these scars, and yet the records are silent on the matter. Seamer was pensioned off in 1856 and drew 8d. per day from the Imperial Government until he arrived in Australia a year or so after. Here it quickly made itself manifest that he was suffering from some mental disorder and eventually his dementia became so pronounced that he was committed to the Lunatic Asylum.
`During the 39 years he passed there the old man could tell but very little about himself. He was not, like most patients, sane on all subjects save one. The past seems to have been a blank for him and he could give no account of his history, although at times his uncontrolled imagination saw the Valley of Death before him once again and caused him to cry out to his old comrades, many now long since dead and gone, whom he felt riding by his side, to tackle the Russians once more. But as a rule the old man was quiet and moody and had nothing to say and it is now long since that he called upon the ghostly regiments of his youth. During his last few years he sat in silent melancholia ...'
He was buried in Grave No 1177, Compartment A of the Church of England Section of the Cemetery at Boroondara and a memorial stone was erected. The title of the plot belongs to the Master in Lunacy and although the burials of those under his control were usually public and unmarked, his grave is a private one. From this he either left an estate sufficient to cover these expenses or arrangements were made with relatives.
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Henry Dyson NAYLOR - Rode in the Charge
Henry Dyson Naylor was born at Mildenhall, Suffolk, he was baptised in Mildenhall Parish Church on 12 July 1835, the second son of Thomas Naylor, and his wife, Eliza. His parents were married at Mildenhall on 13 October 1832. He enlisted at Westminster on 1 November 1851, at the age of 16 years 5 months. Wounded in action at Balaclava, he was `sent on board ship without seeing the surgeon', and was discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on 23 October 1855.
Naylor was entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps `Alma', `Balaclava', and `Sebastopol'. His records state:
`Unfit for further service from disfigurement of the face by fracture of
lower jaw at Balaclava. Also from gun-shot wound of shoulder.'
He was originally awarded a pension of 1/- per day but this was later increased to 1/6d per day following `15 years service in the Enrolled Force' in Western Australia, on 18 January 1881, and further increased on 4 April 1893.
The Army and Navy Gazette for 8 May 1894 provides:
`We learn from Australia of the death of Henry Dyson Naylor, aged 60. At the time of his death he was a Cpl. in the Fremantle Infantry Corps. He enlisted at the age of 16 years, and three years later he rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade, being seriously wounded, one of the wounds being caused by a cannon rammer which struck him in the loins - this caused him pain until his death, which was largely due to the effects of his wounds. He was sent home from the Crimea, and discharged in 1855.
Naylor was then employed as second coachman by the Maharajah Duleep Singh.He then went to Western Australia in charge of prisoners in 1862, and for some years was employed as a night warder at Fremantle Prison, The local Militia gave him a military funeral, and most of the shops closed as a mark of respect ...'
He died in Fremantle on 26 March 1894, from `Influenza, Mob Cordis, Exhaustion', aged 59 years.
In Queen Victoria's Maharajah by Duleep Singh at pp 60-61 it is stated -
`Another servant, a handsome young dragoon, who had been in the Charge of the Light Brigade, at Balaclava, was one of the sights of Perthshire as he strode through the village (Castle Menzies) with all his medals jangling on the Maharajah's blue and green livery ...'
Knowing that Henry Naylor had been employed by Duleep Singh, was he, perhaps, `this handsome young dragoon'?
The Colonial Military Gazette (Australia) for January 1893 stated -
`Colonel Fleming, (commanding the Western Australian District) inspected the Fremantle Rifles on their own ground and expressed a favourable opinion regarding the Corps. The Colonel was introduced to a veteran soldier, Cpl. Naylor, who rode in the ranks of the 13th Light Dragoons at the battle of Balaclava. The Colonel extended a hearty handshake and made many enquiries regarding the old soldier ...'
The July 1893 edition of the Colonial Military Gazette stated -
`Recently an application was made to the War Office for an increase in pension for Cpl. Naylor, now of the Fremantle Rifles, but who had formerly served in the Balaclava Charge. As he enjoys the sum of 1/6d. per day pension, the reply was that "no further award can be given either by the War Office, or Chelsea ...'
The Dictionary of Western Australian Immigrants 1829-1924 shows him as -
`Naylor, Henry Dyson. Bn. 1836, Dd. (Fremantle) 26/3/1894. Son of Thomas Dyson. Arrived per the "Norwood" 9/6/1862 as Enrolled Pensioner Guard, with family. Marr. (England) Henrietta Wells. Private, 13th Light Dragoons Veteran and Crimean War and Chelsea Pensioner. Stationed at Fremantle, posted briefly to Camden Harbour in 1865. Promoted Cpl. in 1881. In 1876 granted Loc. PS/20 acres at Koojee, but lived in Fremantle, where he was employed as a butler. C. of E. by religion.'
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The Norwood was a ship of 849 tons under the command of Captain Frederick Bristow. She had left Portland for Australia on 16 March 1862, carrying 382 passengers (both bond and free) including 21 Enrolled Pensioner Guards with 38 wives and children.
Naylor went to Camden Harbour aboard the Tien Tsin on 17 January 1865, where he remained until 29 October 1865. He was part of a Government force of police, pensioners and labourers who were sent to join the settlement that had been established there some months. The country was found to be inhospitable and unfit for stock, so much so that no more than a thousand sheep of the four and half thousand sheep originally taken there were left. It was decided to abandon the settlement and those remaining (the great majority had returned, dispirited, to Melbourne by July of 1865) returned to Fremantle.
Naylor was on the EPF Roll (Fremantle detachment) on its disbandment in November 1880. He was selected to be recruited as an Enrolled Guard (now under Police control and its members sworn in as Special Constables). Its main duties were to furnish a Guard for the Convict Prison and Magazine at Fremantle and a Guard for Government House. The strength of the unit was one Sergeant Major, three Sergeants, three Warders, five Corporals and 37 Privates.
As an Enrolled Guard, Naylor occupied quarters in No 1 Barrack, Fremantle, with his wife and four children, from 19 November 1880.
He was promoted to Corporal on 2 April 1881.
There is a record in 1881 of, `Has had Koojee Loc. P8 since 1876. Will effect improvements as soon as possible', and on 5 August 1884, `Grant of Cockburn Sound, Loc. P8 of 20 acres at Koojee confirmed'.
Naylor was on the roll of the Enrolled Guard at its disbandment on 31 March 1887. He was then aged 51 and held the rank of Corporal.
A newspaper report of the time said -
`On 3 February 1869 HRH Prince Alfred, son of Queen Victoria, visited Western Australia aboard HMS Galatea and on every occasion when HRH drove out the escort consisted of six well-mounted and uniformed efficient Dragoon Pensioners, clothed, armed and equipped as Hussars, under the able direction of Major Crampton. Each of the men had borne his part in one or more great battles and one exhibited across his face a sabre cut received in the renowned Balaclava charge.'
This was Henry Dyson Naylor from the 13th Dragoons, of whom the local journal relates that during the inspection of his escort, `HRH saw the deep scar on the face of one man, a cicatrized memento of Balaclava.'
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James SEDGEWICK - Possibly rode in the Charge
James Sedgewick was born at Chatham, Kent, and christened on 12 March 1820 at the Ebenezer or Great Meeting House Independent Chapel in Clover Street, Chatham, the son of William Sedgewick, a carrier, and his wife, Mary.
Enlisting at Maidstone into the 4th Light Dragoons in March of 1836 at the age of 19 years, he was discharged from Dublin after 24 years service (some four years of which had been spent in India previous to the Crimean campaign) with a pension of 1/1d per day and intending to live in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Sedgewick was awarded the Crimean medal with clasps `Alma', `Balaclava', `Inkerman' and `Sebastopol'. He was also awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct medal and the medal for Ghuznee.
He was known to be in Brisbane from 1 April 1875. The Brisbane Daily Mail in July 1906 said -
`11th of July - Mr. James Sedgwick, the Balaclava veteran, to whom reference was made in these columns a few weeks back, has died in the Brisbane General Hospital and was buried at the Goondra Cemetery yesterday.'
From his death certificate, he died in the Brisbane Hospital on 9 July 1906, aged 87 years, from `Senile decay. Heart failure.' It confirms his birthplace as being in Kent, his father`s surname and trade, that he was an Imperial Army Pensioner, had been living in Queensland for 22 years, and that he was interred in Goodna Cemetery on 10 July 1906. Although it was also shown he had living relatives, none were specified.
In 1995 a former member of the Tank Corps was visiting his mother's grave in Goodna Cemetery, Queensland, Australia, and looking around the oldest (and much neglected and vandalised) part of the cemetery found Sedgewick`s grave. The headstone was filthy and cracked and the inscription on it difficult to decipher. Reporting this to the RHQ of the Royal Irish Hussars, financial help was given in getting the stone cleaned and repaired, the iron railings around it being also repainted. The inscription on the headstone now reads:
Sacred to the memory of James Sedgewick 4th Light Dragoons, Now 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars Who served his country with honour And took part in the Charge of Balaclava Died July 9th 1906 Aged 87 years Erected by the officers, warrant officers, NCO's and men of his Regiment As a tribute of esteem To a very old and worthy comrade.
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Charles DALTON - Possibly rode in the Charge
Charles Dalton was born in the parish of St. Luke's, Chelsea. He enlisted at Westminster in March 1850 at the age of 18 years into the 8th Hussars and was discharged from Calcutta, India, in September 1863 after 12 years service. The records give no indication of when, or how, he returned to England.
He was entitled (according to the medal rolls) to the Crimean medal with clasps `Alma', `Inkerman' and `Sebastopol', and the Mutiny medal with clasp `Central India'. Although he was not shown as being entitled to the Balaclava clasp, he was allowed to become a member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society in 1879, and this would imply that he did indeed ride in the Charge.
He is said to have emigrated to Australia aboard the Northern (sic) circa 1863-64 (no ship of this name can be found listed, but there was a ship called the Northam which made four voyages to Sydney in 1863 and the same number in 1864, but a Charles Dalton is not listed among the passengers). He is said to have married an Irish girl (Jessie FitzSimmons), born in Armagh, County Armagh, at Christ Church, St. Lawrence, Sidney, on 6 June 1865. Nine children were born into the family, the last seven being at Government House, where Charles Dalton was in charge of the Governor's escort. On his death he was buried in the Church of England Cemetery at Balgowlah, Manley. His wife died in 1919. A family tombstone exists in Manley Cemetery and has the following inscriptions on it -
`Charles Dalton, late of the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars and for 25 years in charge of the Governor's Escort, N S Wales. Born London 24th Nov 1832 -Died Balgowlah, 5th February 1891. Served in the Crimea and Turkey at Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol, and in India at the Siege of Kotah, Recapture of Chundaree, Kotah Ki Seria, Capture of Gwalior, Powrie, Sindwah and Koonory. Also Jessie, beloved wife of the above - Died 17th December 1919, aged 81 years. Also Emily Emma Sarah Jordan, who passed away 31st Aug. 1965, aged 84.'
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Hugh Massey STEELE - Possibly rode in the Charge
Hugh Massey Steele was born at Rathdowney (Airlie) Co. Queen's, Ireland. He enlisted at Dublin on 22 April 1845 into the 8th Hussars at the age of 18 years 2 months. He was discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on 12 July 1855, being, `Disabled by lameness -- after frost bite of the great toes of both feet in the Crimea.'
He was entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps `Alma', `Balaclava', `Inkerman' and `Sebastopol'.
Steele lived in Melbourne from 10 October 1857.
Article from the Windsor and Richmond Gazette, published in October of 1888, said -
`A Neglected Hero -- Few people living but are acquainted, more or less fully, with the facts of the splendid feat in arms, immortalised by Tennyson and which will be known in history, when every individual hero of it shall be laid to rest, as "The Charge of the Light Brigade." It is not generally known that we have in Cootamundra, says an exchange, one of the gallant 600, who rode into the very jaws of death with "cannons to the right of them, cannons to the left of them, cannons in front of them," - in the person of H Steele, a vendor of oranges! This may sound like coming down from the sublime to the ridiculous, but so it is. Mr Steele generall has about him the proud mementoes of the glorious campaign in the Crimea, in the shape of two silver medals, one being presented by Queen Victoria in person, bearing the name, his regiment (8th K R Hussars) also, on four silver lines, the names of the four great features of that campaign Sebastopol, Inkerman, Balaclava and Alma. The other medal was presented by the Sultan of Turkey, "La Crimea, 1855; One of the 600." Not more than a third of them came out of that singular dash. England, as a rule, treats her heroes great and small, rich and poor, handsomely; but since the remote days of princely annuities have been paid to the Marlborough's (sic) down to the good for nothing Duke of the present day, and it appears to us high time that some of these ancient heroes were knocked off the roll, and better justice done to the latter day warriors. One shilling a day to a corporal, and one of the few remaining 600 heroes, looks mean and unworthy of the Mother country.'
The Cootamundra Herald newspaper for 25 September 1886 said -
`The 23rd anniversary [sic] of the battle of the Alma was celebrated in Sydney on Monday night, Sergeant Dalton [see his record] of the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, having called a few old comrades together for the purpose. We may also state that the event was toasted also in Cootamundra by a couple of Crimean heroes - Corporal O'Dwyer, who was engaged at the battle of the Alma, of Muttama, and our town hero (Steel) of Cardigan' Light Brigade.'
He died at Cootamundra on 16 January 1894, aged 66 years, from `Senile Decay, about 12 months'. His occupation was recorded as Retired Gaol Warder. He had been very feeble and ailing for some considerable time. The newspaper death notice said -
`Death - We have to record the death of Mr. Hugh Steele, the veteran soldier, of this town. He had been very feeble and ailing for some considerable time. He leaves a widow and a grown family'.
His death certificate shows him as having lived in Australia for 33 years, and left a widow and four children (one being deceased), their ages ranging from 9 to 21 years. He was buried in Cootamundra Cemetery on 19 January 1894. He was of the Methodist religion.
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Arthur BERKLEMAN - Possibly rode in the Charge
Arthur Berkleman was born at Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland. He enlisted into the 87th Fusiliers at Cork on 9 May 1844 at the age of 16 years, his trade being that of a clerk, and transferred to the 17th Lancers at Paisley on 1 July 1846. He was discharged from Portobello Barracks at Dublin on 27 November 1856. A medical report upon 871 Corporal Arthur Berkleman, 17th Lancers said -
`This man is considered unfit for the service and never likely to become efficient in consequence of very extensive varix of the veins of the legs In 1853 he was relieved from duty at Kensington as he was unable to ride on account of this varicose condition. He did no mounted duty for a long period. His disability has been produced in the service and is attributable to mounted service. His disability has not been aggravated by vice or misconduct."
He was entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for `Alma', `Balaclava' and `Sebastopol'.
He lived in the Tralee Pension District of Ireland before going to Sydney, NSW. His pension was paid at Tralee up to 31 March 1858. He was in NSW until his pension expired on 6 February 1860. In the Pension Office Records for Tralee there is an entry during the April-June quarter of 1857 of an out-going letter listing those men on the pension-rolls who were eligible and willing to go to Australia as guards on convict-ships. There is no documentary proof that Berkleman went out to Australia by this means, only the date to when his pension was paid in that particular district. But subsequent events have made this a possibility. It has not yet been possible to discover the exact date of his arrival in Australia.
Berkleman died at Newtown, Windsor, NSW, on 13 January 1904 at the age of 74 years, from `Cardiac disease'. The death certificate confirms that he was born at Killarney, Ireland, and that he was the son of John Lewis Berkleman, a Military Officer, and his wife, Frances, nee Herbert. He was buried in the Church of England Cemetery at Windsor on 14 January 1904 and a gravestone was erected. An obituary notice and funeral report from The Gazette for Saturday the 23rd of January 1904 stated -
"No more respected or esteemed personality than the late Mr. Arthur Berckelman, senr. has ever been called from amongst us. As was briefly stated last week, he passed peacefully away on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning after a long and honoured career, at the age of 74 years. As was well known, Mr. Berckelman, was a Crimean and Balaclava soldier and his home at Newtown, Windsor, was called "Balaclava" in memory of the memorable "Charge of the Light Brigade" in which he took part. He was a man of wonderful vitality and retentive memory, and his graphic descriptions of the scenes on the battlefield which he had witnessed and the adventures he had passed through - the very recital of them made strong men quail. Like his familiar figure - straight and upright - so was his character. During our long residence at Windsor we have never heard one harsh word spoken against the late Mr Berckelman, but we have heard many high words paid to his honesty, his manliness and his goodness of heart. And he never uttered a harsh word against his fellowmen. His end was a peaceful one. Up to the last he was able to get about quite nimbly, and retired to rest as usual on the night of his death and probably passed away in his sleep. He held two
war-medals, for distinguished service in the Crimean and Franco-Prussian [sic] wars respectively. He leaves behind a widow and family than whom none are more respected in the district.'
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