THE STUDENTS
George Hamilton Gordon |
2nd Lt., 2nd May 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 9th April, 1848; 2nd
Captain, 19th June, 1855; Captain, 1st April 1861; Major, 5th July,
1872; Lt. Col., 3rd August, 1872; Colonel, 1st July, 1883 - Retired,
5th November, 1886. Died at Weston-super-Mare, 15th July 1896 |
Augustus Jonathan Clerke |
2nd Lt., 2nd May 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 14th May, 1848; 2nd
Captain, 1st August, 1855 - Killed in action at Lucknow, 17th March, 1858. |
Charles Augustus Rice |
2nd Lt., 2nd May 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 26th February, 1849; 2nd
Captain, 1st August, 1855; Major, 1st July, 1881 - Retired, 1st
July, 1881 |
Alexander Ross Clarke, C.B. |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847; Royal Engineer;
Lt., 11th July, 1849; 2nd Captain, 8th September, 1855; Captain, 18th
December, 1861; Major, 5th July, 1872; Lt. Col., 27th August, 1872 -
Retired, 1st October, 1881.
Gold Medallist of the
Royal Society. For more detailed
information, please see
Captain Clark's
page on the excellent RE site created by Lieutenant Colonel
(retired) Edward De Santis:
UBIQUE -Royal Engineers
and Military Engineers of the British Empire and Commonwealth. |
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Charles John Fowler |
2nd Lt., 2nd May 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 19th June, 1849; South
African Campaign 1851-53; 2nd Captain, 15th August, 1855; Captain,
1st October, 1861; Major, 5th July, 1872; Lt. Col., 4th August, 1872
- Retired 31st December, 1881. Died in London, 3rd December, 1896 |
Edward Bainbrigge |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 6th September, 1849
- Killed before Sebastopol, 4th March, 1855 |
Wednesday, Apl. 4th, 1855
The cold wind has done blowing and the weather is very
pleasant. It appears quite true that the Turks are to come from Eupatoria, leaving enough men there to defend the place. Walked out
to the lookout in front of two mortar battery in front of Light
Division Picket House. There was a heavy fire going on between the
two batteries on the Sapoune the Mamélon & the French 15 gun
battery. Mr. Filder came up for a minute or two. The
Turks were bringing in gabions to make traverses in Gordons battery. The inside is being revetted with sandbags. Yesterday evening
[Lt. Edward] Bainbrigg RE was killed One Sapper
had his head blown off by a round shot & his head struck agst the
jaw of another Sapper & broke it.
-- From Romaine's Journal
http://www.crimeantexts.org.uk/sources/bsk/rj.html
The Ben Smyth / Kinglake Archive
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James Murray |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 14th August, 1849;
Killed Before Sebastopol, 18th June, 1855 |
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George Ranken |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 29th December, 1849;
2nd Captain, 25th September, 1855 - Mortally wounded during the
demolition of a wall at Sebastopol, 28th February, 1856. |
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The ladder parties were also packed into
the foremost sap. They were provided by The Buffs under Captain
Maude, and the 90th and 97th Foot under Major Welsford. Each
contingent of 160 men carried 20 ladders, 8 men to a 24 foot ladder
plus one sapper for technical assistance. The sappers armed with
axes saws and crowbars would move swiftly ahead of the ladders to
hack a path through the abattis should this still be necessary. Ten
ladders per group were to be placed for use by the storming parties,
who would be seen through the ditch and joined by the ladder
carriers, the other ten would be left on the counterscarp side for
use by the following Support Group. Overall control for the
placement was as usual given to a sapper officer, this time Major
Ranken. He was not in the best of moods. He had not been told of
his assignment until after 5 am that morning. His subordinate Lieut
Anderson had been assigned to the Working Party, and General Jones,
still actively commanding the Engineers even if stretcher-bound,
gave out orders that it should develop a ramp from ditch to parapet
immediately after the ramparts had been stormed. Yet although the
Operation Order had stipulated 200 men for the Working Party, no
soldiers had been detailed other than a few sappers with shovels,
and Ranken had to rush about making a nuisance of himself amongst
all the preparatory kerfuffle, trying to drum up some workers. In
the end he managed about 100, better than nothing but only half the
requirement. The storming parties deployed along the 5th Parallel.
This sudden move understandably caught Major Ranken and his
ladder party on the hop. The perceived wisdom had been that it would
take a couple of hours at least for the French to take the Malakoff
- now scarcely were they in, than they seemingly had taken the
place. Relates Ranken, suddenly observing the rear view of the
infantry he needed to be in front of:
"I hurried up my sappers as fast as I could, shouting to them
until I was nearly hoarse and ran forward with them and the ladder
party, with a drawn sword in my hand...in the hurry and confusion,
many ladders were left behind. There was however, little excuse for
this, as the men had their places distinctly assigned to them, and
should not have left the trench without their ladders."
-- Excerpt from
Crimean War - A Matter of Policy - Part I
by John Barham
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/crimean_war/99419
Copyright © 1996-2005 Creative Marketeam Canada Ltd. doing business
as Suite101.com, All rights reserved
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"The Rev. Edward Cullen Parkin, the first
resident minister about whom any parish records exist, was appointed
as Incumbent of Valcartier, Stoneham and Lake Beauport in 1844.
Due to his untiring and ceaseless efforts the Church prospered and
increased in membership until the original building became to small
for the needs of the congregation. Plans were made to erect a
larger Church, a beautiful stone Church which we trust may stand for
many generations as an enduring monument. Not much is known
about the struggles of the congregation to gather funds and material
for the new Church, but they seem to have had considerable help in
the undertaking. For instance there is an old story to this
effect. An officer killed in the Crimean War left among his
personal effects a letter which requested that a sum of money be
left to help build a Church at Valcartier. There is a brass
tablet just above and behind the pulpit, reads the inscription:
To the glory of God and in memory
of Major George Ranken, R.E. who fell at Sebastapol, A.D. 1856.
The windows in this Church were placed by his friend Alfred R.
Roche of the Canadian Civil Service and formerly a Lieutenant of
the British Legion. Seeing that during life, these two
friends joined cordial hands in promoting the general welfare of
Valcartier and in helping to build its Church. It is but
fitting that their names should be linked upon this simple tablet.
Since Major Ranken died in 1856 and the
Church was not build until 1863 and the memorial states that he
helped build the Church, it is reasonable to suppose that the story
related above is true and that it was Major Ranken who bequeathed a
sum of money towards the erection of the building.
Lieut. Roche had these
inscriptions placed on the lower panel of the windows as a fitting
guide to all who in later generations might enter the Church he
loved so well. Live by Faith, God is Love, Search the Scriptures,
Hold fast the Faith, Thy will be done, Thy Kingdom Come.
There is a tradition that a company of
Royal Engineers stationed in
Quebec City built the Church from a design taken from an old parish
Church, somewhere in England."
-- From Rourke and
History of Christ Church Anglican, 1817-1964,
a now defunct
website that used to be found at
http://www.copeman.accessgenealogy.com/photo6.htm
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Francis Horatio De Vere |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 16th April, 1850;
Turkish Campaign, 1854; 2nd Captain, 27th October, 1855; Crimean
Campaign 1854-56; Captain, 20th June, 1862 - Died at Brompton Barracks, 22nd August, 1865, from a
gunshot wound inflicted by a Sapper, who fired at him on the parade from
the barracks, on the 11th of that month. The sapper was executed for
murder. |
Henry Raymond Pelly |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt. 26th July, 1850; 2nd
Captain, 23rd February, 1856; Crimean Campaign 1856; Captain, 26th
March, 1862 - Died at Aldershot, 29th July, 1869. |
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Memorial at St. Peter's
church, Farborough, Hampshire:
"To the dear memory of
Henry Raymond Pelly Captain Royal Engineers Born 15 May 1829 Died 29
July 1869."
-- From the P section
of Officers who died of Natural Causes, Murdered, Accidental Deaths
at the bottom of the page at
http://members.tripod.com/~Glosters/offzdiedp.htm |
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Robert Mann Parsons |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847 |
Frederick Brine |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847, Royal Engineer; Lt., 11th November, 1850;
Crimean Campaign 1855-56; 2nd Captain 23rd February, 1856; Captain,
1st April, 1862; Served in Japan, 1863; Major, 5th July, 1872; Lt.
Col., 2nd April, 1873 - Retired, 3rd may, 1884. Died in London, 30th
June, 1890. |
Arthur Agincourt Fisher, C.B. |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 5th July, 1851;
Crimean Campaign 1855-56; 2nd Captain, 23rd February, 1856; 2nd
China Campaign 1857-60; Captain, 1st April, 1862; Major, 5th July,
1872; Lt. Col., 2nd April, 1873 - Died at Inverness, 2nd November,
1879. |
George Montagu Stopford |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 14th July, 1851;
Crimean Campaign 1854-56; 2nd Captian, 23rd February, 1856 - Died at Brompton Barracks,
Chatham, 7th August, 1860. |
Edward Bridge |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 31st August, 1851;
2nd Captain, 23rd February, 1856; Captain 1st April, 1862 - Died on
board the mail steamer "Calabar"
on passage from W. Coast of Africa to England, 3rd April, 1866. |
Henry Reynolds
Luard |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847 |
Montagu Stopford Whitmore |
2nd Lt., 1st October 1847; Royal Engineer; Lt., 11th November, 1851;
Crimean Campaign 1855-56; 2nd captain 29th February, 1856; Captain,
1st April, 1862 - Resigned Commission, 8th January, 1868.
Accidentally killed near Hornsey Station, G.N.R., 16th October, 1880. |
Howard Craufurd Elphinstone |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847; Lt.,
11th November, 1851; Crimean Campaign 1854-55, Awarded Victoria
Cross; 2nd Captain, 20th April 1856; Captain, 1st April, 1862;
Major, 5th July, 1872, Lt. Col., 23rd May, 1873; Colonel, 3rd
May, 1884 - Drowned off Ushant, being thrown into the sea by the
lurching of the "Tongarico" while proceeding to Teneriffe, 8th
March, 1890. |
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Please see
Wikipedia for more information |
Charles Edward Cumberland, C.B. |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847; Lieutenant, 13-11-1851; 2nd Captain,
10-6-1856; Captain, 1-4-1862; Major, 5-7-1872; Lieutenant Colonel,
1-6-1873; Colonel, 10-5-1884. Army Ranks: Major, 15-6-1860;
Lieutenant Colonel, 11-4-1871; Colonel, 1-10-1877; Major General,
17-12-1887. War Service: Crimea, 1855-6; Indian Mutiny, 1857-9.
Retired: 17-12-1887. |
Alexander Stephen Creyke |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847 |
William Coles Phillpotts |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847; Lieutenant, 6-12-1851; 2nd Captain,
11-8-1856; Captain, 1-4-1862; Major, 5-7-1872; Lieutenant Colonel,
2-8-1873; Colonel, 21-5-1884. Army Rank: Colonel, 2-8-1878. Retired,
21-1-1888. |
Henry Sandeman |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847 |
Amelius Beauclerk Fyers |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847 |
Joseph Wallis O'Bryen
Hoare |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847 |
Lionel
Charles Barber |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847 |
James Grantham |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847 |
Glastonbury Neville |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847 |
James Ponsonby
Cox |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847 |
George Reid Lempriere |
2nd Lt., 18th December 1847; Brother of Arthur Reid Lempriere of the Columbia Detachment |
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