Crimean texts
Principal source: The Dictionary of National Biography
| General Airey —Quartermaster-General | ||
| Sir Richard [later Lord] Airey (1803-1881) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 1803 | Born. Eldest son of Lt-Gen Sir George Airey | |
| Educated Royal Military College, Sandhurst | ||
| 1821 | Ensign, 34th Regiment | 18 |
| 1823 | Lieutenant by purchase | 20 |
| 1825 | Captain by purchase | 22 |
| 1827-30 | adc to Sir Frederick Adam | 24-27 |
| 1830-32 | adc to Lord Aylmer, Governor General and C-in-C North America | 27-29 |
| 1834 | Major by purchase | 31 |
| 1838 | Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase | 35 |
| Regimental command | ||
| 1847-51 | Assistant Adjutant-general | 44-48 |
| 1851-53 | Deputy Quartermaster-General | 48-50 |
| 1852 | Promoted to Colonel | 49 |
| Military secretary to Lord Hardinge, C-in-C | ||
| 1854 | Commander 1st Brigade Light Division in Crimean expeditionary force | 51 |
| 01. 9.1854 | Promoted to Quartermaster-General to the expeditionary force | |
| Dec 1854 | Promoted Major-General and awarded KCB | |
| Nov 1855 | Quartermaster-General at the Horse Guards | 52 |
| 1856 | Exonerated by board of generals , under Sir A Woodford, at Chelsea Hospital | 53 |
| 1860-68 | Colonel of the 17th Regiment | 57-65 |
| 1862 | Promoted Lieutenant-General | 59 |
| 1865-70 | Governor of Gibraltar | 62-67 |
| 1867 | GCB | 64 |
| 1868 | Colonel of the 7th Regiment | |
| 1870-76 | Adjutant-General | 67-73 |
| 1871 | Promoted to General | 68 |
| 1876 | Lord Airey | 73 |
| 1879 | President of the Airey Committee on short service system | 76 |
| 14. 9.1881 | Died at The Grange, Leatherhead | 78 |
| Sir George Brown — Commander, Light Division | ||
| Sir George Brown (1790-1865) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 03. 7.1790 | Born. 3rd son of George Brown | |
| Educated the Elgin Academy | ||
| 23. 1.1806 | Commissioned as ensign, 43rd Regiment | 15 |
| 18. 9.1806 | Promoted lieutenant | 16 |
| 1807 | Copenhagen expedition | 17 |
| Battle of Vimeiro | ||
| Corunna | ||
| 1809 | 43rd, 52nd, and 95th formed into Light Brigade | 19 |
| June 1811 | Promoted captain | 21 |
| Staff College at Great Marlow | ||
| July 1812 | Exchanged into 85th | 22 |
| August 1813 | The Peninsula, under Major-General Lord Aylmer | 23 |
| Battle of the Nivelle | ||
| Battle of the Nive | ||
| 26. 5.1814 | Promoted Major | |
| America, under General Ross | ||
| Seriously wounded at battle of Bladensburg | ||
| 26. 9.1814 | Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel | 24 |
| Various staff appointments at home and abroad | ||
| 1826 | Assistant Quartermaster-General, Malta | 36 |
| Married Miss Macdonell | ||
| 1828 | Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at the Horse Guards | 38 |
| 1828-53 | (various staff appointments at headquarters) | 38-63 |
| 1831 | Promoted Colonel | 41 |
| 1841 | Promoted Major-General | 51 |
| 1850 | Adjutant-General | 60 |
| 1851 | Promoted Lieutenant-General | 61 |
| 1851-54 | Colonel of the 77th Foot | 61-64 |
| April 1852 | KCB | |
| December 1853 | Resigned from Horse Guards | 63 |
| 1854 | Appointed to command the Light Division in the expeditionary force | |
| 05.11.1854 | Wounded at the battle of Inkerman | 64 |
| 1854-55 | Colonel of the 7th Foot | |
| January 1855 | Colonel of the 1st battalion, Rifle Brigade | |
| May 1855 | Commanded the English force in the expedition to the Sea of Azoff | |
| 28. 6.1855 | Invalided home | |
| July 1855 | GCB | 65 |
| September 1855 | Promoted General | |
| 1856 | Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor | |
| Knight of the Medjidie | ||
| 1860 | Commander-in-Chief in Ireland | 70 |
| 1863 | Colonel of the 32nd Regiment | 73 |
| 1863 | Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifle Brigade | |
| April 1865 | Resigned his command | 74 |
| 27. 8.1865 | Died in the house in which he was born | 75 |
| Sir George Buller — Commander, 2nd Brigade, Light Division | ||
| Sir George Buller (1802-12 April 1884) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 1802 | Born, third son of General Frederick William Buller | |
| 2. 3.1820 | Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, Rifle Brigade | 18 |
| March 1825 | Lieutenant | 23 |
| August 1828 | Captain | 26 |
| December 1839 | Major | 37 |
| August 1841 | Lieutenant-Colonel | 39 |
| November 1841 | Colonel | |
| February 1847 | Brigade commander, 1st Kaffir War | 45 |
| September 1847 | 2 i/c to Sir George Berkeley | |
| December 1847 | CB | |
| 29. 8.1848 | Severely wounded serving in Boer War | 46 |
| 1852 | Divisional commander in 2nd Kaffir War | 50 |
| 1854 | Appointed Brigadier-General i/c 2nd Brigade, Light Division | 52 |
| 20.09.1854 | Fought in the battle of the Alma | |
| 5.11.1854 | Severely wounded in the left arm at the Battle of Inkerman | |
| December 1854 | Major-General | |
| March 1855 | Invalided home | 53 |
| 5. 7.1855 | KCB | |
| 1856-1862 | Divisional Commander in the Ionian Isles | 54-60 |
| 1860 | Appointed Colonel-Commandant of the Rifle Brigade | 58 |
| 1862 | Lieutenant-General | 60 |
| 1865-1870 | Commanded the troops of the Southern Division at Portsmouth | 63-68 |
| 1869 | GCB | 67 |
| 1871 | General | 68 |
| Commander of the Legion of Honour | ||
| Knight of the second class, Order of the Medjidie | ||
| 12. 4.1884 | Died at home | 82 |
| Sir John Burgoyne — Chief Engineering Officer | ||
| Sir John Fox Burgoyne (1782-1871) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 24. 7.1782 | Born. Eldest son (illegitimate) of Lt-Gen Burgoyne and Susan Caulfield | |
| 1792 | Ward of Edward, 12th Earl of Derby (father's nephew) | 10 |
| 1793 | Eton | 11 |
| 19.10.1796 | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich | 14 |
| 29. 8.1798 | Royal Engineers | 16 |
| April 1800 | Assisted in the reduction of Valetta | 17 |
| July 1800 | Promoted Lieutenant | |
| adc to General Fox in Sicily | 18 | |
| March 1805 | Promoted 2nd Captain | 22 |
| Feb 1807 | Commanding engineer in Egypt | 24 |
| Commanding Royal Engineer with Sir John Moore in Portugal | ||
| 1808 | With Moore's expedition to Sweden | 26 |
| Commanding Engineer with reserve division in Portugal | ||
| Blew up bridges at Benevente and Castro Gonzalo in retreat to Corunna | ||
| Embarked for England from Vigo | ||
| Feb 1809 | With Wellesley in Portugal | |
| Douro, Oporto | ||
| July 1809 | Promoted Captain | 27 |
| 1810 | Commanding Royal Engineer with the 3rd Division | |
| Busaco, Torres Vedras | ||
| 20. 7.1810 | Blew up Fort Concepcion | |
| 1811 | Directed right attack in first siege of Badajoz | 28 |
| Jan 1812 | Cuidad Rodrigo. Brevet Major | 29 |
| March 1812 | Badajoz. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| Directed reduction of forts at Salamanca and the Retiro at Madrid | ||
| 1813 | Vittoria. Commanding Royal Engineer at siege of San Sebastian | 30 |
| Superintended the passage of the Bidassoa | ||
| Nivelle | ||
| Superintended Sir John Hope's siege of Bayonne | ||
| CB (Refused to accept a civil knighthood) | ||
| To America as Commanding Royal Engineer | ||
| New Orleans, Fort Bowyer | ||
| 1815 | Returned to England | 32 |
| 1815-1818 | Commanded Royal Engineers in the army of occupation in France | 33-36 |
| 1821-26 | Commanded Royal Engineers at Chatham | 39-44 |
| 1826 | Commanded Royal Engineers with Clinton's force in Portugal | |
| 1828-31 | Commanded Royal Engineers at Portsmouth | 46-49 |
| 1831-46 | Chairman of the Board of Public Works in Ireland | 49-64 |
| 28. 6.1838 | Promoted to Major-General, awarded KCB | 55 |
| 1845-68 | Inspector-General of Fortifications | 63-86 |
| 1851 | Lieutenant-General | 69 |
| 1852 | GCB | 70 |
| 1854 | Crimea as Chief Engineering Officer | 71 |
| Nov 1854 | Appointed Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Engineers | 72 |
| *20.01.1855 | Knight 1st Class of the Order of the Medjidie. | |
| Feb 1855 | Recalled to England | |
| 1856 | Baronetcy. Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour | 74 |
| Promoted to General | ||
| Freeman of the City of London. Hon DCL (Oxon) | ||
| 1865 | Constable of the Tower of London | 83 |
| 1868 | Field-Marshal | 86 |
| 07.10.1871 | Died, London | 89 |
* I am indebted to Charles M. Samaha for this date. The Dictionary of National Biography wrongly implies that the award was received by Burgoyne in 1856. Charles M. Samaha however had access to the original berat. He has kindly had the translation checked by more than one authority, and confirms that the Sultan made the award in January 1855.
| Sir Colin Campbell — Commander, the Highland Brigade | ||
| Sir Colin Campbell, Baron Clyde of Clydesdale(1792-1863) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 20.10.1792 | Born, Glasgow. Eldest son of John Macliver, carpenter | |
| 26. 5.1808 | Ensign, 9th Regiment as Colin Campbell (mother's maiden name) | 15 |
| With 2nd battalion in Portugal | ||
| Rolica, Vimeiro, Salamanca, Corunna | ||
| With 1st battalion at Walcheren | ||
| 28. 1.1809 | Promoted Lieutenant | 16 |
| 1810 | With 2nd battalion at Gibraltar | 18 |
| Commanded two companies at Barossa | ||
| Attached to Spanish army under Ballesteros | ||
| Dec 1811 | Rejoined 2nd battalion at Tarifa | 19 |
| Jan 1813 | Rejoined 1st battalion. | 20 |
| Vittoria. San Sebastian | ||
| 17. 7.1813 | Led the right wing of the 9th in the attack on the convent of San Bartholome | 20 |
| 25. 7.1813 | Led the attack on the fortress of San Bartholome | |
| Led the night attack on the batteries across the Bidassoa | ||
| 09.11.1813 | Gazetted to company command, without purchase, in the 60th Rifles | 21 |
| Dec 1813 | Returned to England | |
| Joined the 7th battalion of the 60th in Nova Scotia | ||
| 1815-1816 | On leave on the Riviera | 23-24 |
| Nov 1816 | Joined the 5th battalion at Gibraltar | |
| 1818 | Transferred to the 21st (Royal Scotch Fusiliers) | 25 |
| April 1819 | Joined the 21st at Barbados | 26 |
| 1821 | adc to Governor and Brigade-Major to troops at Demerara | 28 |
| under General Murray, Governor of British Guiana | ||
| 1823 | Continued in both posts under Sir Benjamin D'Urban | 30 |
| 26.11.1825 | Major, by purchase | 33 |
| 1826 | Resigned staff appointments and returned to England | |
| 26.10.1832 | Lieutenant-Colonel, unattached, by purchase | 40 |
| 1835 | Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 9th | 43 |
| 1837 | Assumed command of the 98th | 45 |
| 02. 6.1842 | Landed in China to reinforce Sir Hugh Gough's army in the "Opium War" | 49 |
| After the war, appointed adc to the Queen, promoted Colonel, CB | ||
| Jan 1844 | Brigadier-General, commanding brigade in Chusan | 51 |
| 24.10.1846 | To Calcutta with his regiment | 54 |
| Jan 1847 | Assumed command of the brigade at Lahore | |
| Appointed to divisional command by Lord Gough | 55 | |
| 1849 | 2nd Sikh War. In actions of Ramnuggur, Chillianwallah, Goojerat | 56 |
| KCB | ||
| Feb 1850 | Cleared the Kohat Pass of rebels | 57 |
| 15. 4.1852 | Defeated the Momunds under Sadut Khan at Panj Pao | 59 |
| 18. 5.1852 | Defeated the Swats at Iskakote | |
| 25. 7.1852 | Resigned his command | |
| March 1853 | Returned to England and went on half pay | 60 |
| 11. 2.1854 | Accepted brigade command in the Eastern expedition | 61 |
| Appointed to command the Highland Brigade of the 1st Division | ||
| 20. 6.1854 | Promoted Major-General | |
| 20. 9.1854 | In action at the Alma | |
| Commandant of Balaclava defence force | ||
| 24.10.1854 | Appointed Colonel of the 67th | 62 |
| 25.10.1854 | Led the 93rd in the 'Stand of the Thin Red Line' at the battle of Balaclava | |
| Dec 1854 | Assumed command of the 1st Division | |
| 05. 7.1855 | GCB | |
| 08. 9.1855 | Commanded the reserve at the storming of the Redan | |
| 03.11.1855 | Returned to England on leave | 63 |
| 04. 6. 1856 | Promoted Lieutenant-General. Returned to Crimea to command a corps d'armee under Codrington | |
| Returned to England after a month, the corps not having been formed | ||
| Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight Grand Cross of the order of St Maurice and St Lazarus | ||
| Knight 1st Class of the order of the Medjidie, Sword of Honour from Glasgow, Hon DCL (Oxon) | ||
| July 1856 | Assumed command of the South-Eastern District | |
| Sept 1856 | Appointed Inspector-General of infantry | |
| March 1857 | Refused offer of command of a Chinese expedition | 64 |
| 11. 7.1857 | On news of the Indian Mutiny and the death of General Anson, appointed as commander-in-chief, India | |
| 16.11.1857 | Led the 2nd relief of Lucknow | 65 |
| 06.12.1857 | Defeated Tantia Topi at the 3rd battle of Cawnpore | |
| 15. 1.1858 | Appointed Colonel of the 93rd Highlanders | |
| 21. 3.1858 | Captured Lucknow after a 19 day siege | |
| 14. 5.1858 | Promoted General | |
| 03. 7.1858 | Elevated to the peerage as Lord Clyde of Clydesdale | |
| Subjugated Oudh and Rohilkand | ||
| 1859 | Dealt with the 'White Mutiny' | 66 |
| 04. 6.1860 | Left India | 67 |
| July 1860 | Appointed Colonel of the Coldstream Guards | |
| Dec 1860 | Made a Freeman of the City of London | |
| June 1861 | KSI | 68 |
| 09.11.1862 | Promoted Field-Marshal | 70 |
| 14. 8.1863 | Died | 70 |
| 22. 8.1863 | Buried in Westminster Abbey | |
| Lord Cardigan — Commander, the Light Brigade | ||
| James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 16.10.1797 | Born. Only son of Robert, 6th Earl of Cardigan | |
| Christ Church, Oxford | ||
| 1818-29 | MP for Marborough | 21-31 |
| May 1824 | Cornet, 8th Hussars, by purchase | 26 |
| January 1825 | Lieutenant, by purchase | 27 |
| June 1826 | Captain, by purchase | 28 |
| 1829-32 | MP for Fowey | 31-34 |
| August 1830 | Major, by purchase | 32 |
| December 1830 | Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase | 33 |
| 1832 | Lieutenant-Colonel of the 15th Hussars | 34 |
| 1832 | MP for North Northamptonshire | 34 |
| 1833 | The Captain Wathen affair | 35 |
| 1836 | Command of the 11th Hussars in India | 38 |
| 1837 | Succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father | 39 |
| 1833 | The Captain Wathen affair | 35 |
| May 1840 | The black bottle affair | 42 |
| 12. 9.1840 | Duel with Captain Harvey Tuckett | |
| 16. 2.1841 | Acquitted by House of Lords | 43 |
| 20. 6.1854 | Promoted Major-General | 56 |
| Commander, Light Cavalry Brigade, expeditionary force | ||
| 25.10.1854 | Wounded in the charge at the battle of Balaclava | 57 |
| January 1855 | Returned home on medical grounds | |
| 1855 | Inspector-General of Cavalry | |
| Commander of the Legion of Honour | ||
| Knight (2nd class)of the order of the Medjidie | ||
| 1861 | Promoted Lieutenant-General | 63 |
| 1859 | Colonel of the 5th Dragoon Guards | 61 |
| August 1860 | Colonel of the 11th Hussars | |
| 1863 | Cardigan v Calthorpe | |
| 1861 | Author of Cavalry Brigade Movements | |
| 28. 3.1868 | Died following a fall from a horse | 70 |
| Sir George Cathcart — Commander, 4th Division | ||
| Sir George Cathcart (1794-1854) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 12. 5.1794 | Born. 3rd son of Sir William Schaw Cathcart, 1st Viscount and Earl Cathcart | |
| 10. 5.1810 | Commissioned as Cornet, 2nd Life Guards | 15 |
| 02. 7.1811 | Promoted Lieutenant into 6th Dragoon Guards | 17 |
| 1813 | adc and private secretary to his father, Ambassador to Russia | 19 |
| 31. 3.1814 | Entered Paris with the allied armies | 19 |
| 1815-18 | adc to Wellington at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, and in Paris | 20-24 |
| Promoted to company command in the 1st West India Regiment | ||
| Exchanged into 7th Hussars | ||
| May 1826 | Lieutenant-Colonel, 7th Hussars | 32 |
| 1828 | Exchanged into 57th | 34 |
| 1830 | Exchanged into 8th Hussars | 36 |
| 1838 | Exchanged into 1st Dragoon Guards | 46 |
| 23.11.1841 | Promoted Colonel | 47 |
| 1846 | Appointed Deputy-Lieutenant of the Tower of London | 52 |
| 1850 | Published Commentaries on the War in Russia and Germany in 1812 and 1813 | 56 |
| 11.11.1851 | Promoted Major-General | 57 |
| Jan 1852 | Appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief at the Cape | |
| Subdued the Kaffirs and Basutos | ||
| July 1853 | KCB | 58 |
| 12.12.1853 | Appointed Adjutant-General at the Horse Guards | 59 |
| April 1854 | Left the Cape | |
| Given command of the 4th Division, and a dormant commission to succeed as C-in-C | ||
| 25.10.1854 | Battle of Balaclava | 60 |
| 26.10.1854 | Instructed to surrender the dormant commission | |
| 05.11.1854 | Killed in action, leading a contingent of his men in the battle of Inkerman | 60 |
| Buried in the Crimea, at Cathcart's Hill | ||
| 05. 7.1855 | Gazette announced that he would have been awarded GCB had he survived | |
| General Estcourt — Adjutant-General | ||
| James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt (1802-55) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 12. 7.1802 | Born. 2nd son of Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt, MP | |
| Educated Harrow | ||
| 13. 7.1820 | Ensign, 44th | 18 |
| 07. 6.1821 | Transfer to 43rd Monmouthshire Light Infantry | |
| 09.12.1824 | Promoted Lieutenant | 22 |
| 04.11.1825 | Promoted Captain | 23 |
| 1834 | 2 i/c to Colonel F R Chesney on Euphrates Valley expedition | 32 |
| 21.10.1836 | Promoted Major | 34 |
| 1837 | Married Caroline Carew | |
| 29. 3.1839 | Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel | 36 |
| 25. 8.1843 | Lieutenant-Colonel, unattached, half pay | 41 |
| Feb 1848-52 | MP for Devizes | 45-50 |
| 21. 2.1854 | Brigadier-General, Adjutant-General to the expeditionary force | 51 |
| 12.12.1854 | Promoted to Major-General | 52 |
| 24. 6.1855 | Died from cholera, his wife at his side | 52 |
| 10. 7.1855 | Gazette announced that Estcourt would have been KCB had he survived | |
| 1856 | Widow raised to rank of a KCB's widow by special patent | |
| Lord Hardinge — Commander-in-Chief, Horse Guards | ||
| Sir Henry Hardinge, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore (1785-1856) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 30. 3.1785 | Born. 3rd son of Henry Hardinge | |
| 8.10.1798 | Ensign, Queen's Rangers, Canada | 13 |
| 25. 3.1802 | Lieutenant, 4th Foot, by purchase. Half pay | 16 |
| 1803 | Transfer to 1st Royals, full pay | 17 |
| Exchanged to 47th Foot | ||
| 07. 4.1804 | Captain, 57th Foot, by purchase | 19 |
| 07. 2.1806 | Joined senior department, Royal Military College, High Wycombe | 20 |
| 30.11.1807 | Graduated from RMC | 22 |
| Dec 1807 | Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General to General Spencer's force which joined Wellesley in Portugal | |
| Rolica | ||
| Wounded at Vimeira | ||
| At Corunna | ||
| Appointed to Portuguese staff | ||
| 13. 4.1809 | Promoted to Major | 24 |
| Deputy Quartermaster-General of the Portuguese army | ||
| The Douro | ||
| Busaco | ||
| 22. 5.1811 | Albuera | |
| 30. 5.1811 | Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel | 26 |
| First and second sieges of Badajoz | ||
| Salamanca | ||
| Severely wounded at Vittoria | ||
| Blockade of Pampeluna | ||
| The Pyrenees | ||
| Feb 1814 | Commanded a Portuguese brigade at the storming of the heights of Palais | 28 |
| 12. 4.1814 | Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 40th Foot | 29 |
| 25. 7.1814 | Transferred to 1st Foot Guards (later Grenadiers) | |
| 02. 1.1815 | KCB | |
| April 1815 | Posted to Prussian HQ at Liège | 30 |
| British military commissioner to Blucher, as Brigadier-General | ||
| 16. 6.1815 | Lost left hand at the battle of Quatre Bras | |
| 24. 2.1816 | Asst QMG on the British staff | |
| Prussian order of Military Merit | ||
| 1820 | MP for city of Durham | 35 |
| Hon. DCL (Oxon) | ||
| 19. 7.1821 | Brevet Colonel | 36 |
| 1823 | Clerk of the Ordnance | 38 |
| 1826 | MP for city of Durham | 41 |
| 27. 4.1827 | Retired on half pay | 42 |
| Jul 1828-30 | Secretary at War | 43-45 |
| 22. 7.1830 | Major-General | 45 |
| Jul-Nov 1830 | Irish Secretary | |
| 1830 | MP for Newport | |
| 1833 | Colonel of the 97th | 48 |
| 1834 | MP for Launceston | 49 |
| Dec'34-Apr'35 | Irish Secretary | 49-50 |
| Sep'41-May'44 | Secretary at War | 56-59 |
| 22.11.1841 | Lieutenant-General | |
| 1843 | Colonel of the 57th | 58 |
| 1844 | GCB | 59 |
| 22. 7.1844 | To India as Governor-General | |
| 11.12.1845 | 2 i/c to Gough in 1st Sikh War | 60 |
| Created Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and Durham | ||
| 12. 1.1848 | Retired as Governor-General (succeeded by Lord Dalhousie) | 62 |
| 1852 | Master-General of the Ordnance | 67 |
| Commander in Chief of the forces (succeeding Wellington) | ||
| 1854 | Promoted to General | 69 |
| 02.10.1855 | Field-Marshal | 70 |
| 15. 7.1856 | Retired through ill-health, after being stricken with paralysis | 71 |
| 24. 9.1856 | Died at South Park, Kent | 71 |
| A W Kinglake — Author | ||
| Alexander William Kinglake (1809-1891) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 05. 8.1809 | Born. Eldest son of William Kinglake | |
| Educated at Eton | ||
| 1828 | Trinity College, Cambridge | 19 |
| 1832 | Graduated BA | 24 |
| 14. 4.1832 | Entered Lincoln's Inn | |
| c. 1835 | Made the Eastern tour | 26 |
| 05. 5.1837 | Called to the bar | 27 |
| 1844 | Published Eothen, or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East | 35 |
| 1845 | Accompanied St Arnaud's Algerian column | 36 |
| 1854 | Journeyed to the Crimea | 45 |
| 20. 9.1854 | Attracted Lord Raglan's attention | |
| ??.10.1854 | Left the Crimea | |
| 1856 | Commissioned by Lady Raglan to write a history of the war | |
| 1857 | Elected as MP for Bridgwater | 48 |
| 1863 | Vols 1 and 2 of The Invasion of the Crimea published | 54 |
| 1868 | Unseated as MP (Bridgwater was disfranchised for corruption) | 59 |
| 1868 | Vols 3 and 4 of The Invasion of the Crimea published | |
| 1875 | Vol 5 of The Invasion of the Crimea published | 66 |
| 1880 | Vol 6 of The Invasion of the Crimea published | 71 |
| 1887 | Vols 7 and 8 of The Invasion of the Crimea published | 78 |
| 02. 1.1891 | Died | 81 |
| Lord Lucan — Commander, Cavalry Division | ||
| George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800-88) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 16. 4.1800 | Born. Eldest son of Richard, 2nd earl | |
| Educated at Westminster | ||
| 29. 8.1816 | Commissioned as ensign in the 6th Foot | 16 |
| 24.12.1818 | Exchanged into 3rd Foot Guards | 18 |
| Half pay | ||
| 20. 1.1820 | Lieutenant 8th Foot | 19 |
| 16. 5.1822 | Obtained a company in the 74th Foot | 22 |
| Half pay | ||
| 20. 6.1822 | Gazetted to 1st Life Guards | |
| 23. 6.1825 | Major (unattached) | 25 |
| 01.12.1825 | 17th Lancers | |
| 09.11.1826 | Lieutenant-Colonel commanding 17th Lancers | 26 |
| 1826-30 | MP for County Mayo | 26-30 |
| 1828 | Attached to Prince Menschikoff's staff in the Balkan campaign | 28 |
| Awarded the Order of St Anne of Russia (2nd class) | ||
| 1829 | Married Anne, 7th daughter of the 6th Earl of Cardigan | 29 |
| 14. 4.1837 | Went on half pay, relinquishing command of the 17th Lancers | 36 |
| 30. 6.1839 | Succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father | 39 |
| 1840 | Elected as a representative peer of Ireland | 40 |
| 23.11.1841 | Promoted Colonel | 41 |
| 1845 | Lord Lieutenant of Mayo | 45 |
| 11.11.1851 | Promoted Major-General | 51 |
| 21. 2.1854 | Appointed to command of the Cavalry Division in the expeditionary force | 53 |
| 25.10.1854 | Wounded at the battle of Balaclava | 54 |
| 14. 2.1855 | Ordered to relinquish his command and return home | |
| 01. 3.1855 | Landed in England | |
| 19. 3.1855 | Addressed the House of Lords, defending his actions in the Crimea | |
| 05. 7.1855 | KCB | 55 |
| 17.11.1855 | Colonel of the 8th Hussars | |
| 1856 | Published English Cavalry in the Army of the East | |
| 24.12.1858 | Promoted to Lieutenant General | 58 |
| 22. 2.1865 | Colonel of the 1st Life Guards | 64 |
| 28. 8.1865 | Promoted to General | 65 |
| 02. 6.1869 | GCB | 69 |
| 21. 6.1887 | Promoted to Field Marshal | 87 |
| 10.11.1888 | Died | 88 |
| Captain Fitz Maxse— adc to Lord Cardigan | ||
| Sir Henry Berkeley Fitzhardinge Maxse (1832-83) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 1832 | Born. Son of James Maxse and Caroline (daughter of 5th Earl of Berkeley) | |
| 01. 6.1849 | Lieutenant, Grenadier Guards | 17 |
| 11. 6.1852 | Transfer to 13th Light Dragoons | 20 |
| 06. 7.1852 | Transfer to 21st Foot | |
| 1854 | Crimea, as aide-de-camp to Lord Cardigan | 22 |
| 25.10.1854 | Wounded in the charge of the Light Brigade | |
| Invalided home | ||
| Order of the 5th class of the Medjidie | ||
| 29.12.1854 | Captain, Coldstream Guards | |
| 1855 | Major | 23 |
| 1863 | Lieutenant-Colonel | 31 |
| 1863 | Lieutenant-Governor, Heligoland | |
| Feb 1864 | Governor, Heligoland | 32 |
| 22.12.1873 | Left the army | 41 |
| 1881 | Governor, Newfoundland | 49 |
| 10. 9.1883 | Died at St John's | 51 |
| Captain Louis Edward Nolan — Aide-de-camp to General Airey | ||
| Lewis Edward Nolan (1818-1854) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 4 Jan 1818 | Born in Upper Canada, son of Captain (later Major) Babington Nolan, 70th foot | |
| Commissioned in an Hungarian hussar regiment | ||
| Served in Hungary and on the Polish frontier | ||
| 15. 3.1839 | Purchased commission as ensign, 4th King's Own Foot | 21 |
| 23. 4.1839 | Transfer to 15th King's Hussars | |
| Served in India as cornet | ||
| 19. 6.1841 | Purchased lieutenancy | 23 |
| 1844 | Appointed regimental Riding Master | 26 |
| 1849 | Adc to Lt-Gen Sir G F Berkeley, i/c troops, Madras | 31 |
| 08. 3.1850 | Purchased troop | 32 |
| Adc to Sir Henry Pottinger, Governor | ||
| Returned home before his regiment and travelled in Russia and northern Europe on leave | ||
| 1852 | His book, The Training of Cavalry Remount Horses: A New System, published | 34 |
| Oct 1852 | Commanded regimental depot troop at Maidstone | |
| Nov 1852 | Led his regiment's contingent in Wellington's funeral procession | |
| 1853 | His book, Cavalry: Its History and Tactics, published | 35 |
| 1854 | Appointed adc to Brig-Gen Airey and sent to Turkey to buy horses | 36 |
| July 1854 | Landed in Varna with 300 horses | |
| 25.10.1854 | Killed in action during charge of the Light Brigade | 36 |
| General Pennefather — Commander, 1st Brigade, 2ndDivision | ||
| Sir John Lysaght Pennefather (1800-1872) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 1800 | Born. Third son of Rev John Pennefather of County Tipperary | |
| 14. 1.1818 | Cornet, 7th Dragoon Guards | 17 |
| 20. 2.1823 | Lieutenant | 22 |
| 5.11.1825 | Captain, half pay | 25 |
| 8. 4.1826 | Appointed to 22nd Regiment of Foot (The Cheshire Regiment) | 25 |
| 22. 3.1831 | Major | 30 |
| 1834 | Married Katherine, eldest daughter of John Carr, of Mountrath, Queen's County | 30 |
| 17. 2.1843 | Wounded in battle of Miani (Meanee) under General Napier, Awarded CB | 42 |
| 1848 | Relinquished command of the 22nd and went on half pay | 47 |
| 1849 | Assistant Quartermaster General of the Cork District | 48 |
| 1854 | Appointed to command 1st Brigade of 2nd Division (Sir De Lacy Evans'division) | 53 |
| 20.06.1854 | Major General | 54 |
| 20.09.1854 | Commanded his Brigade at the battle of Alma | 54 |
| 26.10.1854 | Commanded his Brigade at the battle of "Little Inkerman" | 54 |
| 25.11.1854 | Commanded the Division at the battle of Inkerman, De Lacy Evans being ill. Mentioned in despatches. | 54 |
| Dec 1854 | Appointed commander of the 2nd Division when Evans invalided home. Appointed Colonel of the 46th Regiment | 54 |
| 5. 7.1855 | KCB | 55 |
| July 1856 | Invalided home | 56 |
| 25. 9.1856 | Appointed to command the troops in Malta | 56 |
| 13. 2.1860 | Appointed Colonel of the 22nd | 59 |
| 1860 | Appointed to command the troops at Aldershot | 60 |
| 12.11.1860 | Lieutenant General | 60 |
| 13. 5.1867 | GCB | 66 |
| 9. 5.1868 | General | 67 |
| 27. 8.1870 | Appointed Governor of Chelsea Hospital | 70 |
| Commander of the Sardinian Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus | ||
| Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour | ||
| 2nd Class of the Order of the Medjidie | ||
| 9. 5.1872 | Died. Buried in Brompton Cemetery | 71 |
| Lord Raglan — Commander-in-Chief, Crimean Expedition | ||
| Lord Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan of Raglan (1788-1855) | ||
| Date | Event | Age |
| 30. 9.1788 | Born. Youngest son of the 5th Duke of Beaufort | |
| 09. 6.1804 | Cornet, 4th Light Dragoons | 15 |
| 30. 5.1805 | Lieutenant | 16 |
| 05. 5.1808 | Obtained company command | 19 |
| 18. 8.1808 | Transferred to 44th foot | |
| Aide-de-camp to Wellesley in Portugal. Present at Rolica and Vimeira | ||
| 1809 | Returned to Peninsula with Wellesley. Wounded at Busaco | 20 |
| 01. 1.1811 | Appointed military secretary to Wellesley. | 22 |
| 09. 6.1811 | Promoted brevet major after Fuentes d'Onoro | |
| 27. 4.1812 | Promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel | 23 |
| Awarded cross with 5 clasps for the Peninsula campaign | ||
| 25. 7.1814 | Transferred to 1st Guards | 25 |
| 06. 8.1814 | Married Emily Harriet, a niece of Wellington | |
| 02. 1.1815 | Awarded KCB | 26 |
| Secretary to the British embassy in Paris while Wellington was ambassador | ||
| 26. 3.1815 | Joined Wellington in the Netherlands as his military secretary | |
| 18. 6.1815 | Lost an arm at Waterloo | |
| 26. 8.1815 | Aide-de-camp to the Prince Regent as a colonel | |
| At the British embassy in Paris | ||
| 1818 | Secretary to Wellington when he was master-general of the ordnance | 29 |
| 1818-1820 | MP for Truro | |
| 27. 5.1825 | Promoted to major-general | 36 |
| 1826 | With Wellington in St Petersburg on the accession of Tsar Nicholas I | 37 |
| 1826-1829 | MP for Truro | |
| 22. 1.1827 | Appointed military secretary at the Horse Guards | 38 |
| 19.11.1830 | Appointed colonel of the 53rd Foot | 42 |
| 1834 | Awarded honorary degree of DCL (Oxon) | 45 |
| 28. 6.1838 | Promoted to lieutenant-general | 49 |
| 14. 9.1852 | Master-General of the Ordnance | 63 |
| 24. 9.1852 | Awarded GCB | |
| 12.10.1852 | Becomes Baron Raglan of Raglan, Privy Councillor | 64 |
| 10. 4.1854 | Departs for Paris, as Commander-in-Chief of the expeditionary force | 65 |
| 08. 5.1854 | Appointed to colonelcy of the Horse Guards | |
| 20. 6.1854 | Promoted to general | |
| 1855 | General Simpson sent to the Crimea | 66 |
| 1855 | Commissioners McNeill and Tulloch sent to the Crimea | |
| 18. 6.1855 | Disastrous assault on the Malakhoff and the Redan | |
| 28. 6.1855 | Died of dysentery and general debility | 66 |
| His body was shipped home and buried at Badminton. | ||