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[Kevwood]

Indian Mutiny.

Private J. Collier 90th Foot(2nd Battalion Cameronians)

wounded at Lucknow 17/11/1857

Kev.

[dcsnr]

Thanks Kev - your help is truly appreciated.

David

[PennyX]

Kev, do you have any info about Royal Naval ships serving in the Crimea?  I'm trying to find out about HMS Sphynx and St Jean de Acre.  An ancester served on both and got medals for the Crimea, Turkish Crimea, Baltic and, I think, India general service medal. But I can't work out where he was when.
Thanks
Pennyx

[Kevwood]

Hi Penny, i may not be able to find anything unless he was wounded, what was his name?

Kev.

[M.T.H]

Hi Penny,

HMS Sphinx was certainly in the Crimea in 1854, perhaps your ancestor was aboard during this action at Sevastapol that was reported in the Times on November 8th 1854;

'The English had come within range of the batteries on the left shortly before 1 o'clock.  The Agamemnan steamed in and engaged Fort Constantine with great determination. The Brittania was towed in, I believe, by the Retribution, then followed the Arethusa, Albion, and London. The Sphinx, newly arrived from the Baltic, went in firing her long fore and aft guns at Fort Constantine with considerable effect, for the enemy took espescial pains to be rid of her, and the shot which fell around her kept the sea in a continual foam.'

Fort Constantine was one of a series of defensive positions around Sevastapol,there is a pic of it here;

http://www.xenophon-mil.org/crimea/war/sevastopol/harbor02.htm

Hope this helps a bit,

Mick

[PennyX]

Thanks, he definitely was there then because that's how he got his medal - everyone in the RN at Sevastapol did.
Liz

[PennyX]

Kev, thanks, but he retuned hale and hearty, very hearty judging by later photos.
Liz

[gabba]

Hi Kev

Any Gabriel`s on record?

Thanks in advance

Gabba

[Kevwood]

Hi Gabba, none for the Crimea, I've got some in my tree though!!

Will check indian mutiny later as its not alphabetical.

Kev.