Memorials Carlisle Cathedral

Plaque VC’s King's Own Border Regiment:
THE BORDER REGIMENT
VICTORIA CROSS MEMORIAL
Pte Thomas Beach VC 55th Foot Inkerman 1854
Pte William Cuffey VC DCM 34th Foot Sevastapol 1855
Pte John Sims VC 34th Foot Sevastapol 1855
Maj Frederick Elton VC 55th Foot Sevastapol 1855
Pte George Richardson VC 34th Foot Sinhara Chat 1859
Pte Abraham Acton VC 2nd Border Rouges Bancs 1914
Pte James Smith VC 2nd Border Rouges Bancs 1914
Sgt Edward Mott VC DCM 1st Border Le Transloy 1917
Sgt Charles Spackman VC Mascoing 1917
Lt Col James-Forbes Robertson VC DS & Bar MC Vieux Bequin 1918

Plaque General Sir Richard Denis Kelly KCB:
This memorial, within the Border Regiment Chapel within Carlisle Cathedral, commemorates General Sir Richard Denis Kelly KCB (died in 1897) who served his country in the Crimean War and in the Indian Mutiny Campaigns.

More plaques in Carlisle Cathedral:
- Plaques commemorating 34th or Cumberland Regiment servicemen killed in the Crimean War.
- Plaque commemorating Major Robert Murray Banner who gave his life on 6 October 1854 in the Crimean War.
- Plaque commemorating soldiers of the 1st Battalion The Border Regiment who gave their lives 2nd Boer War.
- Plaque commemorating fallen servicemen of the 1st line Cumberland Artillery Howitzer Brigade 42nd Division
- Plaque commemorating fallen servicemen of the Regular Special Reserve Territorial and Service Battalions of the Border Regiment
- Plaque commemorating Theodore Bayley Hardy VC, MC,DSO
- Plaque commemorating choristers of this cathedral who died during active service
- Plaque commemorating five former choristers of Carlisle Cathedral who died during active service in World War Two.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Arjan Vrieze
• Photos: Arjan Vrieze