Location

The plaque is on the back of one of the choristers stalls in the chancel.
South side, front row, ninth from the west end.
 

Memorial
Plaque to Officers of the 49th (Herts) Regiment
Inscription
OFFICERS OF 49TH
(HERTFORDSHIRE) REGT
WHO FELL DURING THE
CRIMEA WAR.
DD: OFFICERS 49TH REGT.

 

Further Information (From the 1873 Guide to the Church)
No regiment was more distinguished during the Crimean War than the 49th. Officers and men were ever among the foremost. A large number of the survivors bore home with them honourable marks of their gallantry:-
 

MAJ. GEN. SIR H.W. ADAMS K.C.B.
MAJOR THOMAS DALTON
MAJOR C.T. POWELL
MAJOR C.S. GLAZBROOK
CAPTAIN W.W. MAITLAND
CAPTAIN W.R. CORBET
CAPTAIN C. ROCHFORT
LIEUT. AND ADJ. A.S. ARMSTRONG
ENSIGN C. MICHELL
ENSIGN A.F. PLATT
ASST. SURGEON BECKWITH

    

Died of wounds Dec. 19th 1854
killed Nov 5th 1854
killed Oct 26th 1854
killed Dec 18th 1854
ague (sic) Nov 15th 1856
fever Mar 19th 1855
killed Sept. 8th 1855
killed Nov. 5th 1854
killed Sept. 14th 1855
fever Aug. 11th 1855
cholera Oct. 18th 1854


 
See also
The neighbouring plaque to Major-General Henry William Adams.

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