On September 8 a second attack was made on the Redan, the outwork which had defied our attempt on June 18. Again we were driven back, after our men had made good their footing in the place. This defeat was entirely due to the neglect to support the stormers, who had shown the habitual gallantry of the British soldier.
Casualties at the Battle of Inkerman.
| Regiments. | Officers. | Men. | ||
| K. | W. | K. | W. | |
| Staff | 5 | 12 | - | - |
| 8th Hussars | - | - | - | - |
| 11th Hussars | - | - | - | - |
| 13th Hussars | - | - | - | - |
| 17th Lancers | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Royal Artillery | 2 | 4 | 13 | 76 |
| Grenadier Gds. | 3 | 6 | 101 | 124 |
| Coldstream Gds. | 8 | 5 | 65 | 116 |
| Scots Guards | 1 | 8 | 49 | 119 |
| 1st Royal Scots | - | - | 1 | - |
| 4th K.O. Lancs | - | - | - | - |
| 7th Royal Fus. | - | 5 | 13 | 49 |
| 19th Yorkshire | 1 | - | 1 | 3 |
| 20th Lancs Fus. | 1 | 8 | 40 | 122 |
| 21st R. Scots F. | 1 | 6 | 24 | 90 |
| 25th R. Welsh F. | 1 | 1 | 18 | 20 |
| 28th Gloucester | - | - | - | - |
| 30th E. Lancs | 2 | 5 | 29 | 101 |
| 33rd W. Riding | 1 | 2 | 6 | 55 |
| 38th S. Stafford | - | - | - | - |
| 41st Welsh | 5 | 6 | 55 | 101 |
| 44th Essex | - | - | - | - |
| 47th N. Lancs | - | 2 | 19 | 45 |
| 49th R. Berks | - | - | - | - |
| 50th West Kent | 1 | 1 | 8 | 21 |
| 55th Border | - | 5 | 18 | 58 |
| 57th Middlesex | 2 | 3 | 13 | 75 |
| 63rd M'chester | 3 | 7 | 12 | 93 |
| 68th Durham L.I. | 2 | 2 | 16 | 33 |
| 77th Middlesex | 1 | - | 20 | 37 |
| 88th Connaught Rangers | - | 2 | 22 | 80 |
| 95th Sherwood Foresters | - | 4 | 27 | 104 |
| Rifle Brigade | 2 | 4 | 35 | 109 |
On the following day the Redan was found to be evacuated, and our men entered unopposed. This was the last general action of the war. The Russians now abandoned the city, and retired to the far side of the harbour, and, though actual fighting was at an end, the winter was passed as if on active service. In the spring overtures of peace were made, and in the summer of 1856 the army returned to England, Sevastopol being restored to the Russians.
In writing of battle honours, I must not omit to mention that our allies, the French, Turks, and Sardinians, bestowed a certain number of decorations on our officers and men. The French distributed crosses of the Legion of Honour, which were, as a rule, given to officers. In some exceptional cases a cross was given to a non-commissioned officer, and in some very few cases to privates. The French war medal was bestowed on a certain number of men in each battalion, and one was given to H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge. The Turks showered the Order of the Medjidieh with no niggardly hand, and the Sardinians gave a few crosses of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus to senior officers, and a few medals to each regiment. The distribution of these foreign decorations gave rise to considerable dissatisfaction. There were certain regiments which had fought throughout the campaign; there were others which had landed at the very close of the operations, and had not lost a man in action. All shared equally, like the labourers in the vineyard.
There were few officers on the Staff or in the Brigade of Guards who did not receive four decorations for this campaign, and, in truth, the Guards deserved all they received. They not only took their fair share of trench duty, but at the Alma and at Inkerman they suffered most severely. A party of Guardsmen who happened to be on fatigue duty at Balaclava the morning of the battle were collected by a young officer, and fell in on the left of the 93rd. That young officer afterwards acted as Brigade-Major to the heroic Nicholson at the Siege of Delhi, and as I write is, I believe, the only living officer who saw Sevastopol and Delhi fall. I allude to Lieutenant-General Sir Seymour Blane, who served as a subaltern of the Scots Guards in the Crimea. Afterwards exchanging into the 52nd, he marched down with Nicholson to Delhi, and was by his side when the hero of the siege was shot down inside the Cashmere Gate.
Sevastopol.
This distinction was awarded to all regiments which landed in the Crimea prior to September 8, 1855, the date of the last storming of the Redan:
King's Dragoon Guards.
4th Dragoon Guards.
5th Dragoon Guards.
Carabiniers.
Royal Dragoons.
Royal Scots Greys.
4th Hussars.
Inniskilling Dragoons.
8th Hussars.
10th Hussars.
11th Hussars.
12th Lancers.
13th Hussars.
17th Lancers.
Grenadier Guards.
Coldstream Guards.
Scots Guards.
Royal Scots.
Buffs.
King's Own (Lancaster).
Royal Fusiliers.
Norfolks.
Somerset Light Infantry.
West Yorkshire.
Leicester.
Royal Irish.
Yorkshire.
Lancashire Fusiliers.
Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Scottish Rifles.
Gloucesters.
East Lancashire.
East Surrey.
Cornwall Light Infantry.
West Riding.
Border.
South Staffords.
Dorsets.
South Lancashire.
Welsh.
Royal Highlanders.
Essex.
Sherwood Foresters.
North Lancashire.
Northamptons.
Royal Berkshires.
West Kent.
Middlesex.
Wiltshire.
Manchester.
Durham Light Infantry.
Highland Light Infantry.
Seaforth Highlanders.
Cameron Highlanders.
Royal Irish Fusiliers.
Connaught Rangers.
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Rifle Brigade.
In addition to the following casualties in action, between the landing of the army in the Crimea on September 14, 1854, and the storming of the Redan on September 8, 1855, 11,375 non-commissioned officers and men were invalided and 16,037 died of disease!