Lancaster Crimean War Memorial

Lancaster Crimean War Memorial
Lancaster Crimean War Memorial
Lancaster Crimean War Memorial
iBase ID
273360
Reference identifier
ZCO20170809005
Title
Lancaster Crimean War Memorial
Place
Lancaster
General notes
Lancaster Crimean War Memorial erected by public subscription and designed by Edward Graham Paley was inaugurated on Nov 8th 1860 by William Whelon Esq., Mayor.
The Crimean Monument is an Obelisk located at Lancaster Cemetery, Quernmore Road, Lancaster.
This image is of the East side detail:

Seaman EDWARD PARKINSON
HMS 'Valiant'.
Drowned in the great gale off Balaclava, 14th November 1854. Aged 23 years.

Gunner WILLIAM VERB
Royal Artillery.
Died from the effect of wounds received in action, June 1855. Aged 23 years.

Private WILLIAM LUND
3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
Died of wounds in hospital at Scutari,
Turkey, 21st January 1855. Aged 33 years.
(One later report states that he died of wounds on board HMS Monarch on that date.)

Private STEPHEN HAYHURST
3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
Killed whilst on picquet duty before Sebastopol, 7th January 1855. Aged 24 years.

6090 Private WILLIAM GRIME
3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
Wounded in the trenches before Sebastopol and died on the passage home, 1st May 1855. Aged 25 years.

Private THOMAS MILLER
3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
No information on this man.

5095 Private DANIEL THOMPSON
1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards.
Killed in the trenches before Sebastopol by a shot from the Redan, 4th August 1855. Aged 23 years.
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