Location

The plaque is on the back of one of the choristers stalls in the chancel.
South side, front row, nearest the west end.
 

Memorial
Plaque to The Twelve Chaplains
Inscription
12 CHAPLAINS WHO
DIED DURING THE
CRIMEAN WAR.
DD: ARMY CHAPLAINS

 

Further Information (From the 1873 Guide to the Church)
 
The Chaplains who fell during the Crimean War were:-
 

THE REV. G. MOCKLER
THE REV. J.J. WHEBLE
THE REV. M. CANTY
THE REV. W. WHYATT
THE REV. D. SHEHAN
THE REV. G.H. PROCTOR
THE REV. H.J. WHITFIELD
THE REV. J. DOYLE
THE REV. J. SHEIL
THE REV. J. FREEMAN
THE REV. R. LEE
THE REV. G. STRICKLAND

    

died 29th September 1854
died - December 1854
died 2nd February 1855
died 23rd February 1855
died 10th March 1855
died 10th March 1855
died 17th June 1855
died - July 1855
died 15th August 1855
died 19th August 1855
died 11th October 1855
died 26th April 1856


 
Many of these Chaplains and others that survived and are not mentioned here were sent to the Crimea at the instigation of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Further information can be found at http://anglicanhistory.org.
 
Lest we lose sight of the fact, it should be remembered that the Chaplains commemorated on this plaque were not necessarily of the Anglican faith. Of the twelve named, 6 were Anglicans and 6 were Roman Catholics. The following information about all 12 was supplied by David Blake, (Curator, Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre):-
 
Roman Catholic Priests
 
Rev Michael Canty – 2 Feb 1855 – Westminster Diocese – Died of disease.
Rev James Doyle – 28th July 1855 – Westminster Diocese – Died of disease at Kingstown
Rev Denis Sheehan – 10th March 1855 – Southwark Diocese – Died of disease. Aged 31
Rev James Shiel – 8th August 1855 – English College – Valladolid – Attached to the 2nd Division. Died of fever caught in the discharge of his duty. Aged 27
Rev Gerald Strickland – 22nd April 1856 – Society of Jesus (SJ = Jesuits) Died of a fever caught whilst voluntarily attending the sick in the French Hospital.
Rev John Joshua Wheble – 3rd November 1854 – Westminster Diocese – Attached to the 3rd Division. Died of dysentery and buried in front of the Balaklava General Hospital.
 
Anglican (Church of England) Clergy
 
Rev George Mockler - 29th September 1854. Attached to the 3rd Division Died at Balaklava, aged 39 and buried in front of the Balaklava General Hospital.
 
Memorial in Christchurch, Watney Street.
Erected to the memory of the Rev. George Mockler M.A., formerly Curate of this church and later Chaplain attached to Third Division of the British Army in alliance with France and Turkey engaged against Russia in actual warfare. He had endeared himself during a ministry of 7 years to his late Congregation who have raised this memorial of their attachment and esteem. The zeal evinced by him for the welfare of the dying, sick and wounded after the battle of the Alma so enervated his physical energies that he sank under the heavy labour imposed upon his exhausted nature. He died on the 2nd day of October 1854, in the 34th year of his age. His remains were interred upon the heights of Sebastopol.
 
From www.stgite.org.uk/chchwatneystreet.html
 
Rev Willian Whyatt - 17th February 1855 – Assistant Chaplain to the 2nd Division. Died on board the Hertfordshire, to which he had been moved from the camp before Sebastopol, of Crimean fever. He was a graduate of University College Durham, first as an Engineering student and then in arts. Sometime a curate of St Peter’s Leeds, and afterwards the district of Crumpsall in the chapelry of St Mark’s Cheetham Hill, Manchester. BA 1850. MA, 1855.
Memorial at St. Barnabus Church, Openshaw, Manchester- "In memory of William Whyatt MA one of the Chaplains attached to the Second Division of Her Majesty's Army in the Crimea, youngest son of the late George Whyatt of Openshaw. His mortal remains lie at Balaclava where he fell a victim to the fever taken at his post of duty at Sebastopol. Feb. MDCCCLV aged 29 years. This tablet was erected by his brother George."
 
Rev George Henry Proctor - 10th March 1855. Attached to the 4th Division. Died at Scutari of fever, aged 34.
Son of Revd. George Proctor, rector of Hadley, Middlesex.
Memorial at St. Denys, Stanford-in-the-Vale, Oxfordshire - "In memory of the Revd George Henry Proctor MA four years Curate of this Parish who died at Scutari near Constantinople March 10th 1855 aged 34 years of a fever caught in the discharge of his duty as Assistant Chaplain to Her Majesty's Forces in the Crimea."
 
Rev Henry John Whitfield - 17th June 1855. Died at Scutari, aged 46 and was buried under a marble headstone.
 
Rev Robert Freeman - 19th August 1855 - Attached to the Light Brigade from 22nd April 1855. Died on board the ‘Clyde’, aged 38.
 
Rev R Lee 18th June 1855 - Died at Scutari and buried with ‘a piece of wood’ for a headstone
 
See also:- "Recusant History", a record of the Catholic Military Chaplains in the Crimean War, by Hagerty, J. Johnstone, T.
 

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