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A History of the Coldstream Guards, from 1815 to 1895

Chapter 48: APPENDIX XII.
By J. Ross
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A regiment-focused history that follows the Coldstream Guards from the immediate postwar occupation of France through later nineteenth-century service. It recounts operational involvement in continental occupation, field campaigns, colonial disturbances, and Egyptian expeditions, together with periods of garrison duty and organizational change. The narrative draws on official orders, diaries, regimental records, and contemporary illustrations, and includes appendices of notes and corrections and plates of uniforms and scenes. Throughout, attention centers on duty and endurance, documenting selected episodes of discipline, hardship, and acts of gallantry that the regiment regards as constitutive of its traditions.

APPENDIX XII.

1.

RETURN OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF OFFICERS AND MEN IN | TH RMY WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE CRIMEA, UP |TO UNE 1, 1856.[486]

  Officers. Non-Com. Men. Total.
    Officers.    
Cavalry 8 10 104 122
Artillery 10 10 111 131
Sappers and Miners 9 1 31 41
Infantry 119 140 2191 2450
Staff 11 — — 11
Total 157 161 2437 2755

2.

RETURN OF TOTAL NUMBER OF OFFICERS AND MEN IN THE ARMY WHO HAVE BEEN WOUNDED IN THE CRIMEA; OF THE WOUNDED WHO HAVE SINCE DIED; OF THOSE WHO HAVE RECOVERED AND HAVE RETURNED TO THEIR DUTY; OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED OF SICKNESS; AND OF THOSE INVALIDED, UP TO JUNE 1, 1856.[486]

  Number Wounded.
   
  Officers. Non-Com. Men. Total.
    Officers.    
Cavalry 22   21   216   259  
Artillery 30   37   595   662  
Sappers and Miners 12   7   79   98  
Infantry 422   514   9892   10828  
Staff 29   —-     29  
Total. 515   579   10782   11876  
  Number wounded since died.
  Officers. Non-Com. Men. Total.
    Officers.    
Cavalry 4   1   25   30  
Artillery 1   4   48   53  
Sappers and Miners 6   1   22   29  
Infantry 73   79   1753   1905  
Staff 2   —   —   2  
Total. 86   85   1848   2019  
  Number recovered and returned to duty.
    Non-Com. Men. Total.
    Officers.    
Cavalry   38   585   623  
Artillery   98   1171   1269  
Sappers and Miners   18   154   172  
Infantry   528   8920   9448  
Staff   —   — —
Total.   682   10830   11512  
  Number died from sickness.[487]
  Officers. Non-Com. Men. Total.
    Officers.    
Cavalry 23   53   954   1030  
Artillery 10   35   1263   1308  
Sappers and Miners 5   7   168   180  
Infantry 104   479   12935   13518  
Staff 5   —   —   5  
Total.   1137   13581   14718  
  Number invalided end of war.[487]
    Non-Com. Men. Total.
    Officers.    
Cavalry   70 850   920  
Artillery   164 1953   2117  
Sappers and Miners   41 176   217  
Infantry   862 10602   11464  
Staff   —   —   —  
Total.   1137   13581   14718  

3.

RETURN SHOWING BY MONTHS THE NUMBER OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 1ST BATTALION COLDSTREAM GUARDS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES DURING THE WAR WITH RUSSIA, BETWEEN FEBRUARY 23, 1854, AND JUNE 30, 1856, AND THE CAUSE OF DEATH.[488]
  Killed in   Total
  Action or Died of Deaths
  in the Wounds. by the
  Trenches.   Enemy.
1854.      
March — — —
April — — —
July — — —
August — — —
September — 2 2
October 1 2 3
November 67 22 89
December — 6 6
       
1855.      
January 2 3 5
February — 4 4
March — 2 2
April — — —
May — — —
June — — —
July — 1 1
August 4 5 9
September — — —
October — 2 2
November — 2 2
December — — —
       
1856.      
January — — —
March — — —
Total 74 51 125
  Died of Disease.  
  Cholera Dysentery Fevers. Diarrhœa. Miscel- Total. Grand
          laneous.   Total.
1854.              
March — — — — 1 - 1
April — — — — 1 - 1
July 2 — 6 — 1 9 9
August 28 — 22 2 1 53 53
September 5 — 12 2 — 19 21
October 14 — 10 11 1 36 39
November 9 4 4 13 2 32 121
December 7 11 9 45 6 78 84
               
1855.              
January 2 12 14 61 13 102 107
February — 11 16 42 14 83 87
March — 4 8 15 2 29 31
April — 3 8 6 1 18 18
May 3 2 5 2 1 13 13
June 25 — 10 4 2 41 41
July — — 9 1 1 11 12
August 2 — 6 1 — 9 18
September 1 — 2 1 — 4 4
October 1 — 4 1 1 7 9
November 1 — 5 5 2 10 12
December — — 1 — 2 3 3
               
1856.              
January — 2 4 — — 6 6
March — — — 1 — 1 1
Total 100 49 155 210 52 566 691

486. Annual Register, 1856, “Public Documents,” p. 347.

487. The columns marked with [487] are published with the following remark: “There are no documents in the Adjutant-General’s Office which will afford the information specified in the above columns, and the same can only be obtained (and probably then only imperfectly) from the Officers Commanding in the Crimea.”

488. This table is not absolutely correct, as it accounts only for 691 instead of 699 Non-commissioned officers and men, who fell in the war, either killed, or wounded, or by disease. According to Dr. Wyatt, who does not classify the casualties by months, the total losses were 81 killed in action, 54 died of wounds, and 564 died by disease, or 699 men. But the above return has been given, as it indicates sufficiently the months during which the bulk of the men lost their lives.