DocRefNoCR0341/340
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TitleVolume of newspaper cuttings and manuscript notes relating to the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, 1857
Date1854-1857
DescriptionVolume of cuttings recording the important events of the Crimean War, 1854-56, together with copies of reports of losses of killed or wounded officers, also interspersed with manuscript lists of officers killed or wounded in 1854, officers dying from natural causes, fatigue, etc, officers wounded at the Battle of Balaklava (25 Oct 1854), copies of letters written about Colonel Shadforth (died at the Redan 18 June 1855), verses about the winning of Sebastopol by TRT Langham, "Britannia, The Pride of the Ocean" and "One Cheer More" (at front), and return of the officers who remained in the Crimea from the first landing until the end of the war (completing a printed list): a cutting of the list of officers killed and wounded during the Mutiny in India, 1857: appendices of cuttings on the fleet, 11-12 Mar 1854, and the death of the Czar, 3 Mar 1855
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