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Sergeant-Major (later Lieutenant and Quartermaster) Charles Wooden VC, 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own.)
10th July 2020Charles Wooden was born on: 24th March 1827 at Kiel, Denmark (now Germany). He enlisted 17th Lancers c.1845, and served with the Regiment in…
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Sergeant John Farrell VC, 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own)
10th July 2020John Farrell Born on in March 1826 at Dublin. He enlisted 17th Lancers 1842. Farrell rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade at…
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Troop Sergeant-Major John Berryman VC, 17th (The Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Lancers
10th July 2020John Berryman was born on the 28th July 1825 at Dudley, Worcestershire. He was working as a cabinet maker prior to enlistment in 17th…
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Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood VC, GCB GCMG 17th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Lancers
10th July 2020He was born at Cressing, Essex on 9 February 1839, Joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in the Royal Navy at the age…
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Private John Freeman VC, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers
10th July 2020John Freeman was born in 1833 in the village of Barming, near Maidstone, Kent. Initially working as a farm labourer, when he was 24,…
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Private James Reynolds Roberts VC, 9th (The Queen’s Royal) Lancers
10th July 2020James Reynolds Roberts (1826-1859) was born in 1826 in Bow, London. He enlisted with the 9th Lancers and had enlisted before the outbreak of…
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Private Patrick Donohoe VC, 9th (The Queen’s Royal) Lancers
10th July 2020Patrick 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…
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Lance Corporal Robert Kells VC, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers.
10th July 2020Robert Kells was born in Meerut, India on 7th April 1832, the son of a serving soldier. He was just 12 years and 9…
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Private Charles Hull VC, 21st Empress of India’s Lancers
10th July 2020Charles Hull was born on 24th July 1890 at Harrogate, Yorkshire. He joined the 21st Lancers in 1908 at the age of 18 and…
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Captain (later Brigadier General) Paul Aloysius Kenna VC, 21st Lancers (Empress of India’s)
10th July 2020Paul Kenna was born on 2nd February 1862 at Everton, Liverpool, and educated at Oakfield house, Lancaster. He joined the Royal Military College, Sandhurst…