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After the Crimean War, the Board of Ordnance was abolished and these units (with the Royal Sappers and Miners having been amalgamated into the Royal Engineers) and the Commissariat, stores and transport organs (re-organized ultimately into the Army Ordnance Corps and the Army Service Corps, both since amalgamated into today's Royal Logistic ...
Pages in category "Regiments of the British Army in the Crimean War" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Lieutenant-Colonel H.J. Warre and an unidentified non-commissioned officer of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot, serving in the Crimean War, photographed in 1855 by Roger Fenton The regiment traveled to New South Wales in detachments as escorts to prisoners in 1824. [ 22 ]
The British force was ambushed and badly mauled en route at the Battle of Bloody Run in July 1763. [7] In 1764 many surviving members of the regiment were drafted into the 17th Regiment of Foot . Anne Grant, whose father was an officer in the 55th Regiment, wrote; "they were going to become part of a regiment of no repute; whom they themselves ...
Irish Cavalrymen, 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons, in the War of the American Revolution, 1775-1783. The 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1759 and notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
Regiments of the British Army in the Crimean War (2 C, 44 P) Pages in category "British military units and formations of the Crimean War" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Paget, 4th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons, Dublin 1850, who commanded the regiment during the Crimean War (Michael Angelo Hayes, 1850). The regiment was first raised by the Hon. John Berkeley as The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Dragoons in 1685, as part of the response to the Monmouth Rebellion by the regimenting of various independent troops, and ranked as ...
The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth. Sydney: Pimlico. ISBN 978-0-71263-653-7. Raugh, Harold E. (2004). The Victorians at War, 1815–1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio. ISBN 978-1-57607-925-6. Richards, Donald (2006). Conflict in the Crimea: British Redcoats on Russian Soil. Barnsley ...