Roll of Honour (Sudan) - 1st Battalion York and Lancaster

Below is a list of those Officers and men of the 1st battalion York and Lancaster Regiment killed in action Sudan February - March 1884.

Roll Of Honour 1st Bn York & Lancaster Regiment

1. 1568 Pte Samuel Le Blaneq - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

2. Pte Robert Brightmore - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

3. 2070 Pte Thomas Brook - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

4. 1190 Pte John Brophy - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

5. 1156 Pte Robert Burnet - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

6. 2085 Pte Robert Cripps - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

7. 766 Pte William Earnshaw - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

8. 2120 Pte Alfred Fennell - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

9. 887 Pte John Fisher - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

10. 297 Pte Charles Head - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

11. 2191 Pte George Higginson - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

12. 171 Pte Isaac Hops - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

13. 1657 Sgt Samuel Johnson - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

14. 300 Pte Andrew Kirby - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

15. 693 Pte James Law - "reported dead" at Tamaai 13th March 1884

16. 735 Pte Peter Malloy - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

17. 1616 Cpl William James Maynard - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

18. 1286 Lance-Corporal Richard Mayors - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

19. 2339 Pte McCombe - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

20. 30 Pte Albert Pinn - Killed at Tamaai 14th March 1884

21. 1830 Pte John Richards - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

22. 2739 L/Cpl George Robinson - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

23. 1840 Pte Charles Rookyard - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

24. 1665 Pte John Roy - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

25. 2762 Pte John Sheldon - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

26. 2121 Pte Benjamin Smith - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

27. 1583 Pte John Steele - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

28. 1522 Pte James Storey - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

29. 2788 Pte John Taylor - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

30. 1262 Pte William Webb - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

31. 593 Pte William West - Killed at Tamaai 13th March 1884

32. *Captain H.G.W. Ford - Killed at Suakin 14th March 1884

*Captain Harry George Wakelyn FORD was born in 1848. He was gazetted as Ensign to the 11th Foot in 1865, but did not join this regiment. He subsequently served in the 7th {the Royal Fusiliers}, in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, and in this became Lieutenant in 1871. He afterwards joined the 56th {"the Pompadours"} and the York and Lancaster Regiment, to which he was gazetted Captain in 1880, and with which he was killed in action at Tamasi. Captain FORD was the youngest son of William M. FORD, Staff Surgeon A.M.D., who died at Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, in 1850, in the exercise of the profession during the outbreak of cholera among the British troops there, and who had seen active service in China and at the Cape of Good Hope during the Kaffir War. Captain FORD was grandson of the late Lieut.-Colonel Charles SMITH, of Whittlesea, J.P.and D.L. of the Isle of Ely, who was wounded at Waterloo, where he fought with his brothers, the late Lieut.-General Sir Harry G.W. SMITH, Baronet of Aliwal, G.C.B., and the late Colonel Thomas Lawrence SMITH, C.B., for many years Barrack-master at Chatham and Aldershot.