One for Liverpool Annie (Continued in Part 2)

[uk2003]

Quick Annie before the Mods move it 

Just look what I found in Philips Park Cem today - I was out looking for Carey graves and came across this treasure.

So as well as a Rorkes Drift VC survivor, a Mesopotamia VC survivor we also have a member who took part in the "Charge of the Light Brigade"

Ken

[liverpool annie]

Oh WOW !! ...... oh wow !!

That's wonderful Ken ... isn't it ?? ooh ... what can we find out  ??

Thank you so much for finding it !!

Annie 

[liverpool annie]

I'm whispering this .... but I found a list of Yorkshire men 

This is the list of those in the 11th Hussars ( Yorkshire men ! ) who Rode in the Charge of The
Light Brigade at Balaclava

BENTLEY William Sgt Kilnwick 1835 at Beverley
816 Mar 1st 1891 cwm+casps
Saved by Lt DUNN from Russians. Died at 2 Cresent Groves
Yks, Buried York Cmty as Troop Sgt Major, 'one of the 600'
BROWN Samuel Charles Pte Leeds 1845
1824 cwm+claps
Warehouseman
LEVETT Robert Pte York 1846
1820 cwm+clasps
Labourer
Killed Apr 5th 1854 Wife Sarah of Howden
MILBURNE Silvester Pte Leeds 1833
1824 cwm+clasps
Wounded in The Charge Received his medal from
Queen Victoria
WARD David Pte Leeds 1839
1820 cwm+clasps
Slubber Killed Apr 5th 1854 cannon ball in chest,
wife Sarah of Farnley, Leeds
WILLIAMS James W Cpl Leeds 1831
1820 cwm+clasps
taken prisoner, Father James of Deptford
Kent, Known as Old Taffy
WILLIAMS Thomas Pte ? 1850
cwm+clasps
known as Young Taffy, signed Loyal
Address

Notes:-
This Regimental records show, in most cases, full date of birth. I have only
included the year
MR date of Muster Roll
Medals. cwm = crimea war medal
Death. Name/Location of Next of Kin shown

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/YORKSGEN/2004-11/1101685927

[Wendi]

Me WOW too Ken !!!

Thanks for posting.

Wendi 

[liverpool annie]

I'm touched by the poppy ! 

[liverpool annie]

Here's another soldier died in Manchester Ken !!  wonder if he's at Philips too ?? wouldn't that be something ??

http://www.rootschat.com/links/02qs/

Somewhere I have pictures of the first banquet ...... I'm looking for them .... put them in a safe place .....  ( where's Mack ?? )

Edit ... I didn't read it properly he's at Weaste Cemetery  !!

[liverpool annie]

I guess I have to buy the book !! 

The story of the famous charge was told from the point of view of a local historian in "The Way to Glory" by James W Bancroft, published in 1988 by Neil Richardson, 375 Chorley Road, Swinton, Manchester ISBN 1 85216 024 1. The following notes are from the introduction:

While doing research for a book about the battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, I came upon an article in the Manchester Evening News about a show which had been performed at the Free Trade Hall on 21st May 1890, to raise funds for the survivors of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade who were living in the north of England. The entertainment was provided by the Hulme Committee and the Court Amateur Players and raised nearly two hundred pounds. The names of seventeen beneficiaries appearing on the stage were reported: 17th Lancers: Sergeant-Major Nunnerley, Sergeant-Major Williams, Sergeant Butler, Corporal Marshall and Troopers Holland, Pearson and Wright. 11th Hussars: Sergeant Brown and Troopers Glanister, Jamieson and Richardson. 8th Hussars: Sergeant O'Donoghue and Troopers Hogan, McCausland, Mortimer and Palframan. 4th Light Dragoons: Trooper Palin.
I was intrigued by these men and the feasibility of their having local connections, so I embarked on a project to try to find out more about them. Some of my researches proved fruitless, but most of them were fascinating and led me to yet more of the region who went "into the jaws of death"

[manmack]

Oh WOW !! ...... oh wow !!

That's wonderful Ken ... isn't it ?? ooh ... what can we find out  ??

Thank you so much for finding it !!

Annie 

1567 john richardson
11th hussars
born at carlisle in 1827,he enlisted in the 11th hussars in oct 1852,
he reached the russian guns at balaclava and while fighting,he recieved 2 lance wounds in his left arm,his horse was shot from under him
at the battle of inkerman eleven days later,he came under a barrage of russian shells,the man next to him was hit in the head and killed and both their horses hit.
apart from a spell at scutari in april/may 1855,he served throughout the campaigne.
he recieved the crimea medal with clasps for alma,balaclava,inkerman and sebastopol.

while quartered at hulme barracks in 1862,he went 6 days absent without leave and when confronted by the adjutant on his return,his behaviour was considered as insubordinate
the adjutant was a strict officer,who victimised pte richardson,he was sentenced to fifty lashes in the riding school and given a prison sentence.
however,the flogging was so severe,that it put him in hospital for 28 days
his father wrote to the duke of cambridge,who ordered that he was to be liberated at once and discharged.
he was discharged for misconduct and recieved no pension
the flogging was also brought to the attention of the duke of connaught.and pte richardson was the last man to be flogged at hulme barracks

in 1863 he went to america and joined the new jersey volunteers and fought against the confederates at pittsburg.
he returned to england in 1865,married and settled in manchester.

member of the balaclava commemoration society.

his experiences were published in spy magazine on 25-6-1892.
by that time,he was blind in one eye and partially sighted in the other,he was forced to pawn his medals when his wife died.
he was admitted to crumpsall workhouse,he died there in late july 1897,the same year that the t.h roberts fund was started,so he did not benefit from the fund.

he was given a worthy funeral with military honours,organised by major ballentine,the master of the workhouse.

mack

[Tephra]

Imagine going through all that and dying in the workhouse.........It doesn't sound right does it.   Poor man.   


Barbara