jenfer
02-02-2006, 2:33 AM
Hi all
I haven't visited these boards for a while as I've been a busy bunny. This thread caught my eye because a friend had 2 photo's handed down to him from his gran of some Dorset Crimean veterans. He had previously contacted someone about this and the photos had been used in an exhibition. There was not apparently much information about these men and he was intrigued so I did some research for him which came up with some interesting information.
I have information on Thomas WARR and Michael CRATE mostly but other names are mentioned, another specific to Dorset is Alfred WYBORN, these are articles from Dorset papers and are very interesting reading. Some of it is transcribed and some handwritten; if anyone would like copies I'd be quite happy to pass them on. I've also traced Thomas WARR and his family a little, his birth and baptism, his marriage and death etc which adds to it all and gives me quite a complete life story of a Crimean Veteran.
Here is a bit of a quote from one...
(you'll have to excuse my question marks and so on, my military history isn't great!)
The National Reserve movement with its church parades and business and social gatherings has latterly brought our old hero’s out into the limelight, which, figuratively has kindled with new lustre their hardly-won medals, but too many veterans have, alas to complain that in the course of the years since they first received them, lost, stolen or strayed in the phrases applied to their medals. This was the case with the later Mr Franky Treeves of Broadmayne, armourer mate aboard Commodore Napier’s _____ revenge at the bombardment of Adre(?) in 1840. His grandchildren, one day, tied his coveted medal round the cat’s neck and Penny, in the garden or fields soon diverted herself of the undesired ornament which was never recovered. Such was the same of Private Michael Crate of Lester Court, Mill Street, who enlisting in 1850 in the Bengal fusiliers, in the service of John Company fought at Pegu(?) in the Rangoon campaign in 1852 and was severely wounded at the storming of Delhi in 1857. Recently thanks to the kind interest of Major Stephen Willcock, ex regimental Sergeant Major Sloane, - the mayor of Dorchester (Mr Joseph Porter) and several members of the National Reserve who subscribed to the cost. Old Mr Crate was presented with duplicate medals to take the place of those that were stolen from him years ago. Now the same kindly office has been done for ex-trooper Thomas Warr of the 11th Hussars who rode in the charge of the Light Calvary Brigade at Balaclava in October 1854...
I haven't visited these boards for a while as I've been a busy bunny. This thread caught my eye because a friend had 2 photo's handed down to him from his gran of some Dorset Crimean veterans. He had previously contacted someone about this and the photos had been used in an exhibition. There was not apparently much information about these men and he was intrigued so I did some research for him which came up with some interesting information.
I have information on Thomas WARR and Michael CRATE mostly but other names are mentioned, another specific to Dorset is Alfred WYBORN, these are articles from Dorset papers and are very interesting reading. Some of it is transcribed and some handwritten; if anyone would like copies I'd be quite happy to pass them on. I've also traced Thomas WARR and his family a little, his birth and baptism, his marriage and death etc which adds to it all and gives me quite a complete life story of a Crimean Veteran.
Here is a bit of a quote from one...
(you'll have to excuse my question marks and so on, my military history isn't great!)
The National Reserve movement with its church parades and business and social gatherings has latterly brought our old hero’s out into the limelight, which, figuratively has kindled with new lustre their hardly-won medals, but too many veterans have, alas to complain that in the course of the years since they first received them, lost, stolen or strayed in the phrases applied to their medals. This was the case with the later Mr Franky Treeves of Broadmayne, armourer mate aboard Commodore Napier’s _____ revenge at the bombardment of Adre(?) in 1840. His grandchildren, one day, tied his coveted medal round the cat’s neck and Penny, in the garden or fields soon diverted herself of the undesired ornament which was never recovered. Such was the same of Private Michael Crate of Lester Court, Mill Street, who enlisting in 1850 in the Bengal fusiliers, in the service of John Company fought at Pegu(?) in the Rangoon campaign in 1852 and was severely wounded at the storming of Delhi in 1857. Recently thanks to the kind interest of Major Stephen Willcock, ex regimental Sergeant Major Sloane, - the mayor of Dorchester (Mr Joseph Porter) and several members of the National Reserve who subscribed to the cost. Old Mr Crate was presented with duplicate medals to take the place of those that were stolen from him years ago. Now the same kindly office has been done for ex-trooper Thomas Warr of the 11th Hussars who rode in the charge of the Light Calvary Brigade at Balaclava in October 1854...