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
Private George Edward Lickfold
George Edward Lickfold was born on 24 October 1881 one of the six children of John Hollis Lickfold (1848-1891) and Eliza Lickfold (circa 1842-1933). His birth was registered as George Edwin Lickfol...
Captain Egerton Lowndes Wright, MC
Egerton Lowndes Wright was born on 15 November 1885 in Lytham, Lancashire, the second of the four children of Henry Lowndes Wright (1854-1940) and Alice Maud Wright née Eckersley (1861-1914). His W...
A. J. Wynn
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
W. H. Warner
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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St Lawrence Jewry
St Lawrence Jewry is so called because the original twelfth century church stood on the eastern side of the City, then occupied by the Jewish community. That church, built in 1136, was destroyed in...
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