Memorial Details

DURHAM  Cathedral 

   In memory of

   Officers of the 68th (The Durham) Light Infantry,

   Major Heneage Griffith Wynne,

   Captain Richard Lloyd Edwards,

   Lieut. Frederick Grote Barker, 

   Lieut. James Marshall,

   Assistant-Surgeon John Francis O’Leary, 

   who were killed in action in the Crimea;

   Lieut. Colonel Harry Smyth, 

   who died at Scutari, of wounds received in action;

   Lieut. Harry Edmund Smyth, 

   who died in the Crimea, of fever; 

   Captain Thomas Whitmore Storer,

   Paymaster William Hadley,

   Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Johnston,

   who were invalided from the Crimea, and died shortly afterwards.

   And of 

   Six Serjeants, Thirteen Corporals, Four Buglers 

   and

   Two Hundred and Thirty Five Privates of the Regiment 

   who were killed in action, 

   or died of wounds, or of disease, in the east, 

   during the Russian War,  1854-55-56.

   This tablet is erected

   by the Officers of the Regiment,

   and by Officers who formerly served in it.

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At bottom:

   Salamanca                                Vitoria  

   Pyrenees                                 Nivelle

              The Durham Light Infantry

   Orthes               68                  Peninsula  

   Alma                                     Inkerman  

                   Sevastopol

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