The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-04 00:00:00

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Captain Stanley, 57th Regiment, who fell while com-
manding his regiment in the Crimea, when quite a boy
fought and bled in the cause of the Queen of Portugal,
and was made Knight of the Tower and Sword. His
Majesty William IV. himself gave him his commission
and introduced him into the army. He was a branch of
the Lancashire Stanley's. He married three years ago
Miss Balfour, whose father, Captain Balfour, R.N.,
:C AS many years member for Orkney. Captain Stanley
wilt long be regretted by all who had the happiness of
knowing him. This gallant officer volunteered to form
part of the first party to storm Sebastopol. He was in-
terred close to his Colonel, Brigadier-General Goldie, on
I Catheart-hill.

Major Charles Thomas Powell, who fell before Sebas-
topol, served throughout the operations in Scinde, under
`iir C. Napier, including the battles of Meauee and Hy-
,lerabad, for the latter receiving a medal ; he was also at
I he destruction of Fort Imaumghur.
Major T. N. Dalton, of the 49th Regiment, who fell
at Inkerman, served in the Punjaub campaign of 1348
and 1349 ; was present at the passage of the Chenab,
and in the battles of Sadoolapore, Chillianwallah, and
Goojerat, and with the field force in pursuit of the
enemy to the Khyber Pass in March, 1849, receiving a
medal and two clasps.
Captain William Kent Allix, who fell on the heights
•_)f Inkerman, was born in the year 1823, and was con-
,equently in his 32d year. He WS third son of Mr.
Charles Allix, of Willoughby, near Grantham. Ile was
educated at Harrow and at Sandhurst, where he gained
his commission without purchz.se, having passed so good
m examination that he was specially mentioned in the
United Service Journa! for June, 1840, and was
gazetted on the 23th of July of that ;Fear to an En-
-igncy in the Ist or Royal Regiment, the depot of which
regiment he joined at Buttevant, in Ireland, in the
autumn of the same year. The following spring he was
sent with a detachment to join the head-quarters of the
regiment at Gibraltar. He remained there a year, and
was appointed Adjutant to the battalion, which office
he filled for nine years, only resigning it in consequence
of his gaining his company. He served in Canada, in
the West Indies, and a second time in Canada. He was
appointed in 1853 Brigade Major to Lieutenant-General
Sir De Lacy Evans, and also to Sir Richard England
during the period of the camp at Chobham, and at the
beginning ef the present year Lieutenant-General Sir
De Lacy Evans selected him as his senior aide-de-camp
for the campaign in the East. He accompanied Sir De
Lacy Evans to Scutari, to -Varna, and to the Crimea ;
he was present at the Battle of the Alma, where he was
honourably mentioned in Lord Raglan's despatches ;
also at the battle of Balaklava, on the 25th and 26th,
when he was again mentioned in the official despatches,
and fell nobly on the field of Inkerman, discharging to
the last his duty as a soldier in the service of his Queen
and country.
Ensign Clutterbuck, of the 63d Regiment, who was
killed at the battle of Inkerman, was the eldest surviv-
ing son of Mr. Robert Clutterbuck, of Watford, Herts,
and was only in his 20th year. George Evans, a private
in the same regiment, also a native of Watford, was
fighting by his side when he received his death wound,
and in writing home to his mother he thus alludes to the
event :—" Our regiment and the 21st formed line. We
then charged them, and we did it most gloriously ! We
routed thousands of them, and as fast as we could fire and
odd our pieces, so fast they fell, for we could not miss
them they were so thick. We chased them for the best
part of a mile past their own entrenchment, and close up
to that, in the thick of the whole of it, poor Mr. Clutter-
buck was carrying the Queen's colours and cheering the
men on. I think the last words that he said were—
• Come on, 63d !' when he received a shot right
through the neck, which killed him instantly. He
lied gloriously ! I nev-er saw a braver man than
aim in the field that day, although it is with sorrow
that I have to record his death. As for myself,
thank God, I did not so much as receive a scratch the
whole of the day. After the fight was over I went and
;ot Mr. Clatterbuck'a remains carried to the camp,
where they were properly interred the next day. I took
small piece of his hair, which I send to you to give
over to his respected friends. His father may well be
:)roud of having had such a son, for he fought and died
bravely, with the Queen's colours of the 63d Regiment.
in his hand."— Chelmsford Chronicle.

THE MACKINNONS OF THE COLDSTREAM
GUARDS.

Amongst those brave officers who have falle• in the
glorious battle of Inkerman particular mention should
be made of one, as he sprang from a family whose blood
has been so freely shed in past years whilst fighting
against the foes of their country. This allusion is to
the late Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel D. Mackinnon, the
third son of William Alexander Mackinnon, Esq., M.P.
for Rye, wko died from the wounds he received whilst
allantly leading on, with his brother officers, the Cold-
stream Guards against the crushing attack of the
Russian columns. His sad death in this terribly con-
tested action recalls to mind the eminent military
services of two other members of the Mackinnon

family, both of them connected with the Coldstream
Guards.

Major-General 'Mackinnon, the great uncle of the
I aCe Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel D. Mackinnon, entered

it an early age into the Coldstreanis. He first nerved
ander the Duke of York in Holland. During the re-
'►ellioa in Ireland he was Brigade-Major to General
Sir G. Nu,ent, and distinguished himself equally by his
I•ourage and humanity. He was in the expeditions in
Egypt, in Germany with Lord Cathcart, and at the
raking of Copenhagen. In 1803 he embarked for the
PPninsula and fought with great reputation under Lord
Wellington. He was killed at the memorable Ftortning
)f Ciudad Rodrigo, on the 19th January, 1812. A
nonument is erected in St. Paul's Cathedral to the
!nernory of this distinguished officer.
Colonel Daniel Mackinnon, who died in Nertford-
4treet, May Fair, in June 1836, was brother of the
honourable member for Rye. He entered the army
at the age of fourteen ; was sent immediately to the
6iege of Copenhagen, then to Bremen, and the following
year to the Peninsula. His, activity, extraordinary

courage, and frankness of manner, soon won for him the
esteem of his companions in arms. On one occasion,
in the presence of the English and French armies,
he descended to the hank of a river and gnietly took
account of the position of the enemy, amid a shower
of balls. Throughout the whole of the Peninsular
campaign he distinguished himself by similar acts of
cool and determined bravery. At Waterloo, when he
vas Lieut.-Colonel in the Coldstreams, he led the
advance against the French ; his horse was shot dead
under him—he was wounded himself and lost his sword

—but, falling near a French officer, he took his sword
from him, and gently told hint that "he hoped that
they might sup together that night." In the subse-
quent part of that memorable day, he was with the
Coldstreams in the farm at Hugoumont, and con
trived to defend it until the French troops gave up
the contest. At the close of the action, he was com•
pletely delirious from pain and fatigue,aod was sent on to
Brussels ; but the wound which was in his knee affected his
system ever after. In 1826 he became Major and
Brevet-Colonel; and in 1830 he succeeded to the Lieut.-
Colonelcy and command of the regiment of Coldstreams.
Colonel Daniel Mackinnon could wield the pen as well
as the sword ; for he became Vie able histo,ian of the
Coldstreams, whose valuable services he himself so much
nhanced. •
The more especial subject of this notice, the lamented
Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel D. Mackinnon, was educated
at Sandhurst, and entered the army in 1843, taking up
his commission in the Coldstreams, which distinguished
corps he accompanied to the Crimea with all the mili-
tary ardour evinced by his reaoweed relatives ; and
there fell, with seven of his brother officers, in the noble
discharge of his duty, leaving behind a name which will
be ever cherished with affectionate remembrance by
every survivor in his regiment.
The regret which is felt at the loss of this young
and promising officer will be increased when it is
known that he has left a widow and three children
to mourn his death. His lady is the daughter of the late
Major-General Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill, K.C.8., at
the time of his death, in 1851, Colonel of the 50th regi-
ment and Major-General on the Bengal Staff.
There are other members of this family holding com-
missions in the British army ; but, as we trust they are
yet living, it is as well not to speak of their services.--
Church and State Gazette.

THE LATE BRIGADIER•GENERAL FOX
STRANGWAYS.

The following detail of the last moments of Brigadier
General Fox Strangways"is from authentic sources :
Among the brave and distinguished who fell in num-
bers on the fatal banks of the Inkerman, none has left,
from high to low in his bereaved family circle, and
amongst a most extensive and attached circle of friends
in many parts of Europe, regrets more deep than the
late Brigadier-General Fox Strangways. Us died as he
had lived, foremost in the ranks of his country's gallant
soldiers. Early in the day, and one of the earliest in
his presence en the field, Brigadier-General Fox Strang-
ways was to be seen in the group of superior staff
officers surrounding the gallant Commander-in-Chief.
The enemy had advanced to within a short distance of
the distinguished position, and General Fox Strangways,
as was usual with him in the execution of his duty, gave
his men the support and encouragement of his own pre-
sence among them, approaching to within fifty yards of
the enemy's lines. The Russians were driven back, but
just when many an anxious and friendly eye among the
group surrounding the Commander-in-Chief was eagerly
watching the moment for congratulating the brave ge-
neral on his return, they beheld him struck down before
their eyes by a canton-shot. In a moment—and though
probable death and a certainty of being taken prisoners
were the consequences—many a friendly hand drew up
the reins previous to plunging into a headlong gallop
to his assistance, and although the retiring enemy
were still so near to the spot where the object of
their solicitude lay no consideration could restrain
them. Surgical aid was immediately on the spot,
and all eager to help at any cost thoir brave wed
much-loved chief—their purses were emptied to obtain
means of transporting him to the rear. One and all,
with death and combat reigning everywhere around
them, saw and thought but of him lying before them,
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