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Uniform of the 14th Light Dragoons, 1847 Carte-de-Visite of a lieutenant in the 14th (King's) Hussars. Maull & Co. Studios, London, 1867. The regiment was renamed in July 1830, to mark the coronation of William IV as the 14th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, [2] and it took part in the suppression of the Bristol riots in October 1831. [30]
14th Light Dragoons: 1 April 1858: Indian Mutiny: Betwa [29] John Malcolmson: 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry: 8 February 1857: Anglo-Persian War: Khoosh-ab: Joseph Malone: 13th Light Dragoons: 25 October 1854: Crimean War: Balaclava [50] William Marshall: 19th (Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars: 29 February 1884: Mahdist War: El Teb [51 ...
Leith was 31 years old, and a lieutenant in the 14th Light Dragoons (later 14th Hussars (The King's)), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when, on 1 April 1858 at Betwa, India, the following deed led to his being awarded the Victoria Cross:
George Carter Stent was born into a family of modest means in Canterbury in 1833. [1] He was the second son of James Stent, of 2 King's Bridge, Canterbury. [2] Shortly after his twentieth birthday he joined the British Army as a soldier of the 14th (King's Light) Dragoons and proceeded with the regiment to India, where in the 1850s he witnessed and later wrote about the Great Mutiny. [3]
Army from Calpee, and killing two or three Sepoys, in the conflict. Major-General Sir Hugh Henry Rose, G.C.B., reports that this Act of Bravery was witnessed by himself and by Lieutenant Colonel Gall, C.B., of the 14th Light Dragoons. [1]
14th Light Dragoons: Indian Mutiny: 1 April 1858 William Lendrim: Corporal: Corps of Royal Engineers: Crimean War: 14 February 1855 Wilbraham Lennox: Lieutenant: Corps of Royal Engineers: Crimean War: 20 November 1854 Edmund Lenon: Lieutenant: 67th Regiment of Foot: Third China War: 21 August 1860 Frank Lester
With Tantia Tope caught off-balance, Rose ordered the 14th Light Dragoons to charge on both flanks and himself rode leading the left flank cavalry attack. As Tantia Tope's forces reeled under the cavalry, the 86th Regiment and the 24th Bombay Native Infantry advanced to complete the rout.
Map showing the Indian Princely states during the rebellion of 1857 The Victoria Cross (VC) was introduced in Great Britain on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to reward acts of valour during the Crimean War. For the Indian Mutiny (also known as India's First War of Independence, Revolt of 1857, or the Sepoy Mutiny) the VC was awarded to 182 members of the British Armed Forces, the Honourable ...