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Private Bidwell.
"    Turner.
"    Pirouet.
"    Spiller.
"    Laycock.
"    Wright.
Col.-Sergeant Webb.
Corporal Shapland.
"     Bradford.
Lance-Corporal Millward.
Lance-Corporal Bennet.
Lance-Corporal Whitman.
Private Cox.
"    Norman.
"    Palmer.
"    Webber.
"    Lemon.
Private Lock.
"    Hutchings.
"    Bevan.
"    Orchard.
"    Spreadbury.
"    Barnett.
"    Cox.
"    Hay.
"    Page.
"    King.
"    Saunders.
"    Wheaton.
"    Stapley.
"    Brazil.
"    West.
"    Onyett.
"    Winson.
"    Dudley.
"    Lott.
"    Hornsby.
"    Fordham.
"    Turner.
"    Varndell.
"    Mower.
"    Taylor.
Colour-Sergeant Burchell.
Sergeant Williams.
"     Hawkins.
Corporal Lovell.
"     Saunders.
Private Lupton.
"    Harford.
"    Parrott.
"    Mahoney.
"    Allen.
"    Curtiss.
"    O'Brien.
"    Brown.
"    Gray.
"    Anstey.
"    Lucas.
Sergeant Leach.
Private Capp.
"    Gander.
Private Gregory.
"    Reynolds.
"    Devitte.
"    Osmonde.
"    Burge.
"    Newton.
"    Reed.
Lance-Corporal Bromford--twice.
Private Rowe.
"    Sussex.
"    Ward.
"    Smith.
"    Easton.
"    Legatt.
Col.-Sergeant Palmer.
Private Bray.
Lance-Corporal Spear.
Private Kean.
"    Welch.
"    Peckham.
Lance-Corpl. Quick.
Private Burns.
"    Simmons.
"    Palmer.

Total number of killed and wounded and died of disease:--

Killed and died of disease.   Wounded.

Officers                     7                    12
N.C.O.'s and men            91                    85
Total casualties                       195

A large memorial is erected to the memory of those who fell on January
6th at Wagon Hill, Ladysmith, on the spot where the charge took place.
It bears the following inscription:

To the glory of God,
and in memory of
the following Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers,
and Men of the
1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment,
who fell in the gallant and
successful charge made across this
place by three companies during the
fight on 6th January, 1900.
Siege of Ladysmith.

Captain W.B. Lafone.
Lieutenant H.N. Field.
Lance-Corpl. J. Pigeon.
"     "    W.D. Pratt.
"     "    A. Vern.
Private T. Bamsey.
"     A. Bevan.
"     J. Bibb.
"     W. Brown.
"     A. Curtis.
"     W. Davidson.
Private W. Fair.
"     W. Harvey.
"     E. Hornsby.
"     T. Litton.
"     H. Marden.
"     W. Newcombe.
"     F.W.J. Page.
"     G. Roper.
"     J. Seager.
"     W. Woods.

Lieutenant E.E.M. Walker, Somerset Light Infantry
(attached).

"Semper Fidelis."

A marble monument is erected in Ladysmith cemetery to those who were
killed or died of disease during the siege of Ladysmith, and their names
are recorded on it. A small iron cross was also placed at the head of
the grave of every man of the Regiment who was killed or who died of
disease during the war.

These memorials were erected by the officers, non-commissioned officers,
and men of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment, to the memory of their
gallant comrades.


WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD. PRINTERS,
PLYMOUTH
    
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