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
Commemorated ati
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
Admiral of the Fleet, Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB
Naval officer. Born Aberdeenshire. Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1853 until his death. 75 years in the navy, he was possibly the model for C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower.
B. J Camp
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Fred E. Chick
Former official at Charlton Athletic F.C.. Killed on the Somme whilst serving with the 13th Middlesex Regiment.
El Alamein
Town in Egypt. The name means 'two worlds'. It was the scene of two battles in 1942, fought by Britain and its allies against the axis of Germany and Italy.