A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863Gowing, T. (Timothy)
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A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863
Gowing, T. (Timothy)
Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- Personal narratives
Lieutenant HENRY MITCHELL JONES (afterwards Captain in the
regiment; retired 28th August, 1857).--Date of act of
bravery, 7th June, 1855.--For having distinguished himself
while serving with the party which stormed and took the
Quarries before Sebastopol, by repeatedly leading on his men
to repel the continual assaults of the enemy during the
night. Although wounded early in the evening, Captain Jones
remained unflinchingly at his post until after daylight the
following morning.
Lieutenant WILLIAM HOPE (retired 3rd March, 1857).--Date of
act of bravery, 18th June, 1855.--After the troops had
retreated on the morning of the 18th of June, 1855,
Lieutenant W. Hope, being informed by the late
Sergeant-Major William Bacon, who was himself wounded, that
Lieutenant and Adjutant Hobson was lying outside the
trenches, badly wounded, went out to look for him, and found
him lying in an old agricultural ditch running towards the
left flank of the Redan. He then returned and got four men
to bring him in. Finding, however, that Lieutenant Hobson
could not be removed without a stretcher, he then ran back
across the open to Egerton's Pit, where he procured one, and
carried it to where Lieutenant Hobson was lying. All this
was done under a very heavy fire from the Russian batteries.
Assistant-Surgeon THOMAS E. HALE, M.D.--Date of act of
bravery, 8th September, 1855.--1st. For remaining with an
officer who was dangerously wounded, Capt. H. M. Jones, 7th
Fusiliers, in the fifth parallel, on the 8th September,
1855, when all the men in the immediate neighbourhood
retreated, excepting Lieutenant W. Hope and Dr. Hale; and
for endeavouring to rally the men in conjunction with
Lieutenant W. Hope, 7th Royal Fusiliers.--2nd. For having,
on the 8th September, 1855, after the regiments had retired
into the trenches, cleared the most advanced sap of the
wounded, and carried into the sap, under a heavy fire,
several wounded men from the open ground, being assisted by
Sergeant Charles Fisher, 7th Royal Fusiliers.
Private (No. 3443) WILLIAM NORMAN.--On the night of the 19th
December, 1854, he was placed on single sentry some distance
in front of the advanced sentries of an outlying picquet in
the White Horse Ravine, a post of much danger, and requiring
great vigilance; the Russian picquet was posted about 300
yards in his front; three Russian soldiers advanced, under
cover of the brushwood, for the purpose of reconnoitering.
Private William Norman, single-handed, took two of them
prisoners, without alarming the Russian picquet.
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