Crimean Veteran: Death of Bombardier Townley of Ladywood
"One of the few remaining Crimean Veterans is removed by the death at the age of 87 of Bombardier Henry Townley of Blythe Street, Ladywood, where he lived with his son-in-law. He enlisted when a youth ...
Joseph Gamgee and the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund - by Chris Upton
Fame can be a fickle, unpredictable thing. Joseph Sampson Gamgee (pictured), sometime surgeon of Birmingham, would be puzzled to know that his name has been preserved and broadcast to the world as a character ...
Last of Light Brigade - Former Birmingham Resident - Only Survivor
"Of the 600 men who took part in the famous charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, there is only one survivor - Troop-Sergeant-Mayor Edwin Hughes of the 13th Light Dragoons, whose two sons reside in ...