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Subject: Re: George Haywood in The Crimean War.
Author: dianejar
Date: Monday, March 31, 2014
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Hello Lee - welcome to the message board

One question I would ask: how do you know that George Haywood was wounded before Alma (generally considered the first engagement of the war) and how and where do you believe this occurred?

I have searched the service records for George Haywood by regiment and by soldier number and there was no record returned for him. This could mean a number of things:

1. He was not discharged to pension and therefore no Chelsea Pension records are extant.

2. He transferred from the Grenadier Guards to another unit sometime after the Crimean War.

3. There has been an error in recording of his name (e.g. Hayward instead of Haywood) in subsequent records.

4. There were five George or G Haywood names recorded in the Crimean War medal rolls and a further five names recorded in other Victorian era wars.

Nonetheless if you have proof (e.g. a physical medal) that it is YOUR George Haywood who is the man on the medal roll, then it is definite that the Grenadier Guards were certainly present at Alma, Inkerman and the trenches before Sevastopol. It is another sad fact that the 3rd battalion lost 100 officers and men killed and 480 wounded in the 12 months between September 1854 and September 1855.

Hope you can pin him down.

Diane
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