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  • July 2020
  • Reverend James William Adams VC, Attached 9th (The Queen’s Royal) Lancers

    10th July 2020

    Reverend James Williams Adams was 40 years old, and a chaplain in the Bengal Ecclesiastical Department(serving as chaplain to the Kabul Field Force), British…

  • Private George William Burdett Clare VC, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers

    10th July 2020

    William Clare was born on 18th May 1889 at St Ives, Huntingdonshire. He won the Victoria Cross at Bourlon Wood in France on 29th…

  • Sergeant-Major (later Lieutenant and Quartermaster) Charles Wooden VC, 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own.)

    10th July 2020

    Charles Wooden was born on: 24th March 1827 at Kiel, Denmark (now Germany). He enlisted 17th Lancers c.1845, and served with the Regiment in…

  • Sergeant John Farrell VC, 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own)

    10th July 2020

    John Farrell Born on in March 1826 at Dublin. He enlisted 17th Lancers 1842. Farrell rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade at…

  • Troop Sergeant-Major John Berryman VC, 17th (The Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Lancers

    10th July 2020

    John Berryman was born on the 28th July 1825 at Dudley, Worcestershire. He was working as a cabinet maker prior to enlistment in 17th…

  • Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood VC, GCB GCMG 17th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Lancers

    10th July 2020

    He was born at Cressing, Essex on 9 February 1839, Joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in the Royal Navy at the age…

  • Private John Freeman VC, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers

    10th July 2020

    John Freeman was born in 1833 in the village of Barming, near Maidstone, Kent. Initially working as a farm labourer, when he was 24,…

  • Private James Reynolds Roberts VC, 9th (The Queen’s Royal) Lancers

    10th July 2020

    James Reynolds Roberts (1826-1859) was born in 1826 in Bow, London. He enlisted with the 9th Lancers and had enlisted before the outbreak of…

  • Private Patrick Donohoe VC, 9th (The Queen’s Royal) Lancers

    10th July 2020

    Patrick Donohoe, (born 1820, Nenagh, Ireland, died 18/08/1876, Ashbourne, Ireland) was approximately 37 years old and a private in the 9th Lancers, during the…

  • Lance Corporal Robert Kells VC, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers.

    10th July 2020

    Robert Kells was born in Meerut, India on 7th April 1832, the son of a serving soldier. He was just 12 years and 9…