3-021-461 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Crimea Revisited: the room in which Lord Raglan died at the head-quarters' residence, near Sebastopol, 1869. View of '...the room, in a country house at Khutor Karagatch, half way between Balaklava and Sebastopol, where Field Marshal Lord Raglan, its first Commander-in-Chief, died on June 28; this house being occupied as head-quarters by each of the British commanders successively, Lord Raglan, General Simpson, and General Codrington, from the earliest day of the siege...Any visitors to the Crimea are courteously made welcome to enter and see the room in which Lord Raglan died. Before the [British] army left a marble slab had been inserted in the wall with the following inscription: "In this room died F. M. Lord Raglan, G.C.B., Commander-in Chief of the British Army in the Crimea, on June 28, 1855." Underneath this is another slab, with the same inscription translated into Russian. On the panel of the door leading into this room the following names are cut: F. M. Lord Raglan. Gen. Sir J. Simpson. Gen. Sir W. Codrington. The only other name that is left is that of 'Capt. Ponsonby,' which is cut on the outside of the door of the room occupied by him at the time'. Raglan died unexpectedly while suffering with dysentery and depression. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.