Plaque 68 D.L.I. Crimea 1854-6 Cathedral

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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