208 “ The Wiltshire Regiment for Wilshire” 
It is remarkable that this terrible disaster happened only three or 
four miles from the spot where the colours now in Salisbury Cathe- 
dral were immersed. 
The memorial window of the Regiment in Salisbury Cathedral 
contains the initials of the names of the officers, who died on the 
Sutlej, and in the Crimea. 
_ Passing over rather more than seven years, (during which period 
the regiment returned to Europe,) we find the Sixty-Second leaving 
Malta for the Crimea, in November, 1854—the head-quarters and 
four companies in “ Zhe Miranda” (Nov. 5th) and two companies 
in “ The Jura” (Nov. 8th.) The head-quarters landed at Kamiesch 
Bay two days before the great storm of the 14th of November, 1854, 
and weathered that tornado in camp onshore. Their messmates 
were still on the Jura. The Sixty-Second was the only British 
_ regiment that landed at Kamiesch. It had its full share of trench- 
work, and thus suffered heavily. 
The greatest loss it sustained at one time was on the 8th of 
June, 1855, having been engaged in the assault and capture of the 
Quarries on the preceding night, it was retained as a working and 
covering party during that day. Major Dickson, of the Sixty-Second, 
was killed at daybreak on the 8th, in repelling the last Russian attack 
of that period. About 8 a.m. the same morning a round shot, fired 
from the Bastion Du Mat, first struck Captain, now General Ingall, 
C.B. and carried away part of his thigh, then killed Lieutenant-Colonel 
Shearman, Captain Forster,and five others, two of them Sixty-Second 
men and wounded about eleven men besides, some belonging to the 
Sixty-Second, and others to other regiments, who chanced to be mixed 
up with them. James Turner,a Wiltshireman of the Sixty-Second, 
since a sergeant of pensioners, who lives near Devizes, was amongst 
the latter. 
But fearful slaughter yet remained for the regiment. At the 
storming of the Redan (the 8th of September, 1855) the Sixty-Second 
Regiment, says Dr. Russell! “ went into action two hundred and 
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1 Expedition to Crimea, p. 460. 
