1854
Army Medical Services
Serves as senior British army medical officer during the campaign and confronts severe shortages, disease and hospital overcrowding.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Crimea in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Serves as senior British army medical officer during the campaign and confronts severe shortages, disease and hospital overcrowding.
Serves as Adjutant General and helps administer the British expeditionary army during the Crimean campaign.
Travels to the war and records military positions, camps and battlefields for the illustrated press.
Allied troops (British, French and Ottoman) landed in the Crimea and besieged the city of Sevastopol, home of the Tsar's Black Sea Fleet which threatened the Mediterranean.
Travels near active fighting to provide food, medicines and practical assistance to wounded and exhausted soldiers.
Visits hospitals in Crimea to inspect medical conditions and extend reforms beyond Scutari.
Continues reporting army suffering and administrative failures, intensifying political pressure for reform in Britain.
Organises the Land Transport Corps to improve movement of supplies from Balaclava to the siege lines.
Introduces portable field cooking equipment that improves preparation of meals for troops in Crimea.
Investigates British commissariat and transport failures alongside John McNeill after the disastrous winter.
Investigates transport and supply failures in the British army.
Photographs the shell-strewn landscape later known through his image of the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
Succeeds James Simpson as commander of the British army in Crimea after the fall of southern Sevastopol.
Reports the closing stages of the campaign and the transition from military operations to peace.
Commands British forces during the final occupation period and preparations for withdrawal after peace is concluded.
The Victoria Cross is instituted for valour at the Crimea, made from captured guns
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