page_title: 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot
section_title: Crimean War
hierarchical_section_title: 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot / History / Crimean War
caption_attribution_description: English: The Attack on the Redan, Sebastopol, c.1899 (oil on canvas) Crimean War
context_page_description: The 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1824 and amalgamated into the Queen's Own in 1881.
context_section_description: The 97th Foot landed at Balaklava on 20 November 1854. They took part in the Siege of Sevastopol and the Battle of the Great Redan. It was on 22 March 1855, during the Siege of Sevastopol, that Captain Hedley Vicars of the 97th lost his life. Vicars was mentioned in despatches on 6 April by Lord Raglan, and was the subject of a posthumous book. The regiment suffered heavy casualties, with two members subsequently being awarded the newly created Victoria Cross in 1857:
  Sergeant John Coleman for actions at Sevatopol on 30 August 1855.
  Brevet Major Charles Henry Lumley for actions at the Redan on 8 September 1855.
  Following the end of the war, the 97th Regiment returned to England, arriving in July 1856.
caption: The Attack on the Redan by Robert Alexander Hillingford
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