Samuel Parkes
file, record
Accession Number
NAM.1974-07-83-204
Description
Victoria Cross file, Samuel Parkes, 4th Queens Own Light Dragoons, 1854. First prisoner of war Victoria Cross. Associated with the Crimean War, Battle of Balaklava, Charge of the Light Brigade (1854-1856) 1854. From a collection of 596 files relating to Victoria Cross recipients between 1855 and 1967, compiled by the Rev Canon William Murrell Lummis MC, Rural Dean of Hingham, Norfolk, retired Captain, Suffolk Regiment.
Events
Balaklava, Battle of, 1854 (Crimean War, Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 (Crimean War 1854-1856)
Associated collection
