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Photocopy pages from Sir B Burke's, 'Landed Gentry of Great Britain', 1921. Associated with Rear Admiral Charles Davis Lucas, VC, was on board HMS Hecla at the Siege of Sevastopol. He won the first ever Victoria Cross, although he was the 24th to be gazetted, for throwing a live shell overboard. From a collection of leaflets and pages photocopied from books about three military men who are commemorated in Monaghan, Ireland, nd. Associated with Lt Col Thomas Vesey Dawson, Coldstream Guards, Rear Admiral Charles David Lucas, VC and Lt H C J Lloyd, Queen's County Rifles. Associated with the Zulu War (1879) and the Crimean War (1854-1856). Lt Col Dawson and Rear Admiral Lucas, VC both distinguished themselves during the Crimean War. Lt Dawson was killed at the Battle of Inkerman, 1854 and has a memorial dedicated to him in Monaghan. Lt Lloyd, Queen's County Rifles, was killed at the Battle of Isandlwana, 1879. There are several carvings dedicated to him and the soldiers of the Zulu War in St Patrick's Church, Monaghan.

Sevastopol, Siege of, 1854-55 (Crimean War 1854-1856)