Died as a result of serving in the Russian War 1854-6. Commissariat Department.
Trying to identify this man we discovered that the children's novelist, George Alfred Henty (1832 – 1902) was educated at Westminster School and when the Crimean War began he had left university and he volunteered for the Army Hospital Commissariat. He resigned from the army as a captain in 1859. We'd guess that George Alfred and Frederick were brothers.
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Frederick Henty
The inscription was written by the Rev. T. W. Weare, Under-Master of Westmins...
Richard Cripps was born in Hull, Yorkshire, a younger son of John Cripps (b. circa 1851) and Isabella Cripps (1844-1899). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1882 in the Sculcoates regis...
The first general post office in London opened in 1643, after King Charles I legalised use of the royal posts for private correspondence. It was possibly located on Cloak Lane near Dowgate Hill, in...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
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