Medals of the British army, and how they were wonGroombridge, 1861 - 2 pages |
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action afterwards Aide-de-Camp Alma and Inkermann army assault attack August Balaklava batteries battle of Inkermann bombardment bravery Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Brevet-Major Brigadier-General British Cape Mounted Riflemen Captain capture cavalry charge Charles Colonel Colour-Sergeant colours column command commenced companies conspicuous corps Crimea December despatch detachment drummers duty Eastern Campaign enemy enemy's engaged flank Foot force front Fusiliers gallant conduct gallantry George guns heavy fire Henry Honourable horse hundred Hussars including the battles JAMES June killed Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-General Lieutenant-General Sir light division Light Dragoons Light Infantry Lord Raglan Lucknow Major Major-General Major-General Sir March medal morning Native Infantry night non-commissioned officers November occasion October party position present Private JOHN Quarries rank and file received Redan regiment repulsed Rifle Brigade rifle-pits Royal Artillery Royal Engineers Russians second battalion September Sergeant Sergeant-Major served severely wounded shot siege of Sebastopol soldiers sortie THOMAS thousand troops Victoria Cross volunteered whole siege WILLIAM
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Page 170 - Horse Guards, March 10th., 1816. "The Prince Regent has been graciously pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to command, that in commemoration of the brilliant and decisive victory of Waterloo, a medal should be conferred on every officer, non-commissioned officer, and soldier of the British Army, present upon that memorable
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Page 32 - their desperate way right through the enemy's squadron, and already grey horses and red coats had appeared right at the rear of the second mass, when, with irresistible force, like one bolt from a bow, the 4th. Dragoon Guards, riding straight at the right flank of the Russians; and the 5th. Dragoon Guards, following close after the
Page 32 - pierced through the dark masses of Russians. The shock was but for a moment. There was a clash of steel and a light play of sword-blades in the air, and then the Greys and the red-coats disappeared in the midst of the shaken and quivering
Page 53 - on the loss the army and his country have sustained by his death. His fall has deprived me of a valuable friend, to whom long experience of his worth had sincerely attached me. But it is chiefly on public grounds that I must lament the blow. It will be
Page 52 - and the fire of his light troops, with a view to draw off his other corps. At six o'clock the firing entirely ceased. The different brigades were re-assembled on the ground they occupied in the morning, and the pickets and advanced posts resumed their original stations. The corps chiefly engaged were the brigades under
Page 90 - went headlong down the steep. The rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill.
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Page 73 - understanding which were the hostile and which the friendly troops, for no man on either side was so brutal as to molest her." On the following day there was some skirmishing on different points of the line, but the French, taught by experience to appreciate the strength of the position and the valour of its