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Re: HOLMES, James Henry to Harwich Essex from Scutari
« Reply #18 on: Friday 15 December 17 12:33 GMT (UK) »
My mistake but I cannot find him at all other than baptism or registration, well at least we know he existed

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Re: HOLMES, James Henry to Harwich Essex from Scutari
« Reply #19 on: Friday 15 December 17 13:06 GMT (UK) »
Just to mention, as no-one else has, that Scutari was a  British Army barracks and (famously) a military hospital during the Crimean War 1854-1856.

Florence Nightingale was there from November 1854. Henry Holmes & family will have been there at the same time. As Henry later became a Hospital Sergeant it seems likely that he served in the hospital alongside Florence Nightingale.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selimiye_Barracks
http://www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk/scutari.htm
http://hekint.org/2017/02/22/scutari-crimean-war-hospital/
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Re: HOLMES, James Henry to Harwich Essex from Scutari
« Reply #20 on: Friday 15 December 17 13:27 GMT (UK) »
That is interesting Shaun

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Re: HOLMES, James Henry to Harwich Essex from Scutari
« Reply #21 on: Friday 15 December 17 16:44 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Louisa and Shaun.
 Yes it gets more interesting as we find more.
 
https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-balaklava

Must check Henry again to see if he was here at this time.
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Re: HOLMES, James Henry to Harwich Essex from Scutari
« Reply #22 on: Friday 15 December 17 17:14 GMT (UK) »
Reading Henry's discharge papers, it looks like he was "in possession of the Crimean  medal with 3 clasps for Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal,. Also the Distinguished Medal + gratuity of £5 for ? sortie 26th October 1854 "

He is on the Distinguished Conduct Medal list for service in Crimea.
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Re: HOLMES, James Henry to Harwich Essex from Scutari
« Reply #23 on: Friday 15 December 17 18:06 GMT (UK) »
Have you got a sheet for comparison, £5 what it would be worth today, a  fantastic amount me thinks
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Re: HOLMES, James Henry to Harwich Essex from Scutari
« Reply #24 on: Friday 15 December 17 23:32 GMT (UK) »
Wow   :D
... 26th ..  was the day after the Battle of Balaklava, including the Charge of the Light Brigade
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Re: HOLMES, James Henry to Harwich Essex from Scutari
« Reply #25 on: Saturday 16 December 17 08:06 GMT (UK) »
That was a lot of money in those days, she married a man of means.
The will  will be interesting

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Garner, Devon
Garner New Zealand
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Tindal Marylebone Paddington
Tocock, (name changed to Ellis) London
Southam Marylebone, Paddington
Bragg Lambeth 1800's
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Re: HOLMES, James Henry to Harwich Essex from Scutari
« Reply #26 on: Saturday 16 December 17 08:18 GMT (UK) »
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Father-  Henry Holmes age 32 Sergeant in charge (can't read occupation) born Albany Barracks Isle of Wight

The occupation is "Sergeant Army Hospital Corps, Hospital Sergeant 30th Regiment"

See http://www.army.mod.uk/medical-services/30000.aspx :

"This neglect culminated in the disastrous medical scandal of the Crimean War when provision of medical support were entrusted to members of the wealthy and aristocratic classes who regarded soldiering as a hobby, wore highly exotic uniforms and gave no thought to the medical or logistic support to the army. As a consequence the responsibility fell to "Civil Departments" who were largely untrained in war.

Emerging from this fiasco was the formation in 1855 of "The Medical Staff Corps" composed of "...men able to read and write, of regular habits and good temper and of a kindly disposition". In 1857 the Medical Staff Corps was reorganised into the "Army Hospital Corps" a title it held until 1884 when it reverted to its former name.

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