The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-25 00:00:00

CASUALTIES IN THE ARMY OF THE EAST:

A parliamentary return, moved for by Colonel Herbert,
and just published, gives some interesting particulars of
the casualties in the army of the East, distinguishing each
regiment, brigade, and division. The total strength of
regiments which originally formed the expeditionary force
was 55.530 men, and the regimental draughts arriving up
to the 9th September. 1855, numbered 27,371 bayonets, The
casualties up to the fall of Sebastopol were as follows :..-
Men killed or died, 18;927; men invalided or becoming
non eff.-ctiye from other causes. 11,374; strength of the.
army in the Crimea on the 9th of September, 1855, 50,270;
number of officers killed, 157; wounded, 515; number of
non-commissioned officers and men killed, 2 598 ; wounded,
Il,36l—making a total of casualties in action, 14,631. A.
glahce at the column of total casualties by death in action or
wounds enables us to see the regiments which bore the brunt
of the struggle. We should say that the infantry regiments,
which were all through the war, each went out with s
strength of something over 900 men. Among the regiments
suffering most in action, those of the light division head
the list. The 77th had 697 killed or wounded; the 2nd
battalion of the Rifle Brigade, 679; the 23rd
Fusiiiei—;., 638: the 19th, 596; the 88th, 535; and the
7th Fusiliers, 532. In the second division the 41st, with
555 casualties, and the ;15,h with 522, maintain as
honourable pre•eminence with their comrades of the light
division; as also do the Grenadier Gas:As of the Ist
division, who numbered 538 killed and i7oundect
In the 3rd division, the 18th regiment, though not oui Se
time for the great battles of 1854, tops the list with 317
casualties, the next being the 38th, with 230. In the
fourth division the 57th, who arrived after the Alma, shoW
311 casualties- In the first division the Fusilier Guards
lost 446 killed and wounded, and the Coldstreams 293.
The regiments who suffered least of those out the whole
time were: those constituting the Highland Brigade—two
in the third division, and two of the fourth. Their
casualties were respectively as follows :-79th Highlanders,
64 ; 93rd Highlanders, 106 ; the 42nd, 143 ; the 50th, 108;
the 20th. 134 • the 21st, 144; and the 28th, 122. The
casualties in the original Highland Brigade altogether
were—killed : officers, 2 ; men, 36 ; wounded : officers,
6 ; men, 269. Of those regiments out only during a
a portion of the war, the 34th had the largest
loss-469 in action • the 82nd and 92nd were not
actually engaged, and no casualties ; the 71st High—
, lenders has I ; the 13th. II • the 56th, 19; the 39th, 51;
the 14th, 55 ; and the 72nd Highlanders, 54. The total
casualties in the Artillery was 794, and in the Sappers and
Miners 146. The cavalry had altogether 386 killed and
wounded, of 'hich the 17th Lancers contributed 73, the
Greys 63, the 11th Hussars 57, the 13th Light Dragoons
48, and the 4th Light aragoons and Bth Hussars 45 each;
the 4th Dragoon Guards haZ! but 5 casualties, and the Ist
Dragoon Guards, Carabineers, and 17th Lancers, who
arrived in the Crimea towards the L"ld of the siege, none.