West Norwood Cemetery
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- 1604, Private Charles ALDOUS, 17th Lancers (unmarked grave)
- 1516, Private John BROOKS, 13th Light Dragoons [alias of John Withers] (headstone).
- 1366, Private Atcheson Hutchinson CAMPBELL, 13th Light Dragoons (unmarked grave).
- William Henry CORY, who fought for the Confederate Army in the American Civil War, may be the real name of 1604, Private Walter CANNING, 11th Hussars, who fought in the Light Brigade in the Crimea (family memorial, now destroyed).
- 370, Troop Sergeant Major Henry HARRISON, 8th Hussars. (probably unmarked grave)
- Cornet George Warwick HUNT, 4th Light Dragoons (named on his mother's gravestone).
- 1426, Private William KEENAN, 4th Light Dragoons (unmarked grave).
- 1499, Private Henry George WICKHAM, 13th Light Dragoons (unmarked grave).
- 420, Regimental Sergeant Major Samuel WILLIAMS, 8th Hussars (headstone).
- John WITHERS [real name of 1516, Private John Brooks, 13th Light Dragoons].
Puzzling image of headstone for William Richards Cory, his wife and children, unknown date. EJB said the original stone was destroyed in 1980.
"WILLIAM HENRY [CORY]
DIED JANY 29th 1893. AGED 61 YEARS.
AND IS INTERRED AT
BEAUFORT SOUTH CAROLINA USA
ONE OF THE 600 IN THE CHARGE OF THE
LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA OCT 25 1854"
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- Sister Eliza Roberts, Florence Nightingale's principal nurse in the Crimea [CHECK], is also buried here.
See e.g. Carol Helmstadter, Judith Godden, Nursing before Nightingale, 1815 - 1899 (London: Ashgate, 2011; Routledge, 2016), p.53.
West Norwood Cemetery
[TIDY UP: Notice there is no railway line in the foreground between the POV and the cemetery... built from Victoria to Crystal Palace in ??. Notice the row of coaches, the first of which appears to be a hearse and the rest to be carrying mourners.]