[231] An engraving of ‘Riflemen in the Trenches’ is in the ‘Illustrated London News,’ vol. xxv. p. 573.
[232] Wheatley entered my service as lodge-keeper at Bramshill Park on his discharge, and died May 21, 1865.
[233] ‘Letters from Head-Quarters by a Staff Officer,’ [Colonel the Hon. S. Calthorpe], p. 101.
[234] Hannan was one of a hundred men given by the 1st to the 2nd Battalion, before they embarked for the Crimea. He had been noted for his daring in the Kaffir War. He and Ferguson were fellow-countrymen, both being from the north of Ireland.
[235] ‘Illustrated London News,’ vol. xxv. p. 466. The newspaper writer who records this, while doubting the accuracy of the estimate of the number of the enemy killed on the 19th, states this fact of the four Riflemen as ‘certain.’
[236] Ibid. vol. xxv. p. 487.
[237] Captain Markham retired (from the Coldstream Guards) December 23, 1858.
[238] Nine men of the 1st Battalion were wounded in the trenches during the month of October, of whom two died almost immediately, and one underwent amputation of the left thigh; and of the 2nd Battalion four men were killed in the trenches, and an officer and twenty-five men were wounded; of these five died.
[239] For this distinguished service Captain Elrington was recommended for the Victoria Cross; but Sir George Brown demurred to forward the recommendation, on the ground that the 2nd Battalion had not been engaged in the battle of Inkerman! The fact being that three companies were there, and suffered the casualties hereafter noted.
[240] Kinglake, vol. v. p. 298, quoting a letter from Lieutenant Bramston, Rifle Brigade.