Francis Dickinson
One of
the six hundred
The words above were
engraved on the gravestone of Francis Dickinson.
He was one of the soldiers who fought in the notorious
Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean war.
The cavalry was wrongly sent into battle only to be
slaughtered by Russian cannon fire. 670 horsemen were
ordered to charge the enemy and only 195 returned -
Francis Dickinson was among them.
Francis was a Troop Sergeant in the Late 17th Lancers
and died in June 1898. He was buried in the middle of
what is now the open area.
Fighting
in the Crimean War |
