War between Russia and an alliance of France, Germany, Britain, Turkey and the Kingdom of Sardinia. Major battles include those at Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol, where they still occasionally find the remains of fallen soldiers. This war holds a number of firsts: the first to be photographed and the first to be reported by telegraph as it happened; the first to involve slaughter on a massive scale; the first to use explosives shells and trench warfare; the first to use anaesthetics. The Victoria Cross was created in 1856 to recognise acts of gallantry in this war. It was the first medal for valour awarded to servicemen of any rank. Deaths totalled over half a million, many more of disease than wounds, as Florence Nightingale revealed.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Crimean War
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Lord Raglan
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 1788 - 1855, Commander during the Cr...
Mary Seacole statue
The statue is lit at night and the shadow of the figure on the bronze disk ph...
Morley mosaics - KEW - Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole, born 1805. Mary learned natural medicine in Jamaica and volunte...
Seacole - George Street
City of Westminster Mary Seacole, 1805 - 1881, Jamaican nurse, heroine of the...
Other Subjects
Captain James Ferguson
Naval officer. RN Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital.
New Model Army
Created by the Parliamentarians to oppose the King's forces. It was a professional army, in contrast to the part-time local militia they had at their disposal previously. The men were full-time s...
J. H. Coggs
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
W. J. Buckingham
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
W. G. Stockwell
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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John Alexander Christie - Euston
NW1, Euston Road, Euston Station Concourse
Plaque unveiled by Christie's son.
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Enfield school-house / station
the V&A (our picture source) hold in their collection part of the façade of this building (not just the photo but the bricks themselves). Alamy have a photo of the saved section of the façade e...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin
Founder of the USSR. Born and died in Russia. Political theorist and Communist revolutionary. Reviewing a book on Lenin in the Observer, 23 October 2016, Nigel Jones wrote: "... once in power Lenin...