The plaque is on the back of one of the choristers stalls in the chancel.
South side, front row, seventh from the west end.
C.B., ROYAL ARTILLERY
A.D.C. TO QUEEN
DIED AT PORTSMOUTH
OCT 6 1870 AGE 53
DD: WIDOW & CHILDREN.
Further Information
Colonel Wodehouse served the eastern campaign of 1854-55, including the affairs of Bulgaria and McKenzie's Farm, the battle of Alma, Balklava and Inkerman, (horse killed) siege of Sebastopol and repulse of the sortie on the 26th October 1854. Medal and clasps, C.B. Knight of the Legion of Honour, 5th Class Medjidhe and Sardinian Medal, and afterwards Aide-de-Camp to the Queen. A model soldier, without fear and without reproach.
[From the 1873 Guide to the Church]
There is also a window plaque to Colonel Wodehouse in the Garrison Church.
Edwin Wodehouse was born on 17th April 1817, son of Vice-Admiral Hon. Philip Wodehouse and Mary Hay Cameron in Kimberley, Norfolk. He married Catherine Street, daughter of Captain John Street on 16th October 1845. They had three children, Catherine (d. 18/04/1924), Alice (d. 21/11/1882) and Edwin (b. 20/02/1851, d. 01/04/1934).
From the Norfolk Annals by Charles Mackie:-
"Lieut.-Col. Edwin Wodehouse, C.B., Royal Artillery, on revisiting his former home at Hingham, after his return from the Crimea, was presented with an address by the inhabitants of the town. He was the eldest son of Admiral Wodehouse. At Inkerman a battery called "Wodehouse's Battery" was furiously attacked and nearly all the men cut down by overpowering numbers of the enemy. By heroic courage and determination he rescued from the enemy the three guns lost early in the action. Two slugs passed through his cloak, and one, if not two, horses were killed under him."
