War Memorials

Situated high in the SW corner of the North Aisle.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
BREVET MAJOR JOHN BAILLILIE ROSE,
BREVET LIEUTENANT COLONEL
WILLIAM HOLLAND LECKY DANIEL CUDDY,
CAPTAIN HENRY THOMAS BUTLER,
CAPTAIN JOHN GEORGE SCHAW,
LIEUTENANT CHARLES HENRY EVANS,
LIEUTENANT RICHARD JOHN THORLEY STONE,
SIX SERGEANTS, ONE DRUMMER, TWELVE CORPORALS, AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE PRIVATE SOLDIERS,
WHO WERE KILLED OR DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN BATTLE.
BREVET MAJOR HECTOR MC.CASKILL,
CAPTAIN JOHN WARREN,
LIEUTENANT ROBERT GRIGG,
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM MANSELL TAYLER,
LIEUTENANT LEA BIRCH,
ASSISTANT SURGEON JOHN JAMES NORRIS,
NINE SERGEANTS, SIX CORPORALS, AND TWO HUNDRED
AND NINETEEN PRIVATE SOLDIERS,
WHO DIED OF FATIGUE, EXPOSURE, OR DISEASE,
MAKING A TOTAL OF TWELVE OFFICERS,
FIFTEEN SERGEANTS, EIGHTEEN CORPORALS, AND
THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR PRIVATE SOLDIERS,
ALL OF THE 55TH (WESTMORELAND) REGIMENT OF FOOT
WHO FELL DURING THE WAR WITH RUSSIA
IN TURKEY AND THE CRIMEA, IN THE YEARS 1854-1855

THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED
BY THE TWELVE SURVIVING COMRADES OF ALL RANKS
AS A TESTIMONY OF GRIEF FOR THEIR LOSS
AND OF RESPECT FOR THEIR WORTH
“THE SMALL AND GREAT ARE THERE” .
JOB III: 19

IN ADDITION TO THE DEATHS ABOVE RECORDED
EIGHTEEN OFFICERS, THIRTY THREE SERGEANTS, ONE DRUMMER,
SEVENTEEN CORPORALS, AND THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY
PRIVATE SOLDIERS OF THE REGIMENT, WERE WOUNDED AT
VARIOUS PERIODS DURING THE WAR,
AND OF THESE ONE OFFICER, THREE SERGEANTS, AND
TWENTY EIGHT PRIVATE SOLDIERS SUFFERED AMPUTATIONS OF
THEIR LIMBS.

ALMA
INKERMAN
SEVASTOPOL