2-982-583 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Monument at Carmarthen to the Officers and Soldiers of the Royal Welch Fusiliers who fell in the Crimean War, 1858. War memorial in Portland stone, '...designed and executed by Mr. Edward Richardson, of Melbury-terrace, Harewood-square, and is in excellent taste...One of the four panels...bears the following inscription: Sacred to the memory of the Officers and Soldiers of the Royal Welch Fusiliers...who fell in the service of their country during the war with Russia, in 1854 and 1855. This monument was erected, a.d, 1858, as an enduring record of the gallant deceased, by the officers then serving, or who had served, in the corps. "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul." - St. Matt. x. 28. On the tablet of one panel are inscribed the names of those belonging to the corps who died at the battle of the Alma, on September 20, 1854. Another bears the names of the persons who wore killed at the storming of the Redan, on September 8, 1855. Whilst the fourth commemorates those who fell at the battle of Inkerman, on November 5, 1854; those who died in the trenches before Sebastopol during 1854 and 1855; and gives a summary of the persons belonging to the corps cut off by disease during the Crimean war'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.