CAMBRIDGE, Daniel
Sergeant (later Master Gunner) Royal Regiment of Artillery.
London Gazetted on 23rd June 1857.
Born on in 27th June 1820 at Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland.
Died on 4th June 1882 at Plumstead, London.
Memorials at *see below
Digest of Citation reads:
On 8th September, 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimea, Sergeant Cambridge volunteered for the spiking party at the assault on the Redan and remained with the party even after being severely wounded. Later on the same day he went out under heavy fire to bring in a wounded man.

*Memorials at;
Memorial 1: Individual Plaque and Tree - National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffs, DE13 7AR, UK
Memorial 2: Plaque and Display - Carrickfergus Museum, Antrim Street, Carrickfergus, County Antrim, BT38 7DG, Northern Ireland
Memorial 3: Ulster History Circle Blue Plaque - 31 High Street, Carrickfergus, County Antrim, BT38 7AN, Northern Ireland
Memorial 4: Place Name - Cambridge Close, Carrickfergus, County Antrim, BT38 7DH, Northern Ireland

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The following pictures and text are courtesy of Peter Howell (Great Grandson of Daniel Cambridge VC)

This plaque erroneously has Daniel Cambridge VC as a Yeoman Warder whereas he was in fact a Yeoman of the Guard (Yeomen Warders are gaolers and guard the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London) (Yeomen of the Guard are the Sovereign's Body Guard)

Finally stationed at Redoubt Battery, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Daniel was pensioned as a Master Gunner on 27th June, 1871, after completing thirty two years service. He retired to Plumstead and took charge of the building occupied by the Board Of Ordnance, which is opposite Firepower, the Museum of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich.

Also in 1871 Daniel was appointed to Queen Victoria's Body Guard, the Yeomen of the Guard.

Daniel Cambridge died on 4th June, 1882, of the wounds he sustained in the Quarries, before the Redan, Sebastopol, at 57 Frederick Place, Plumstead, and aged 62 years. He was survived by his wife Ann, formally Bigham, and their children William (born in Woolwich in 1854), Mary Josephine (Athlone 1857), Agnes (Athlone 1859), Daniel Johnson (Athlone 1861), Catherine (Tarbert 1863) and Elizabeth (Lizzie) (Tarbert 1865). Daniel's son William enlisted in the Royal Engineers transferring to the Army Service Corps, Commissariat & Transport. William was serving as a Conductor in the Cape, South Africa, at the time of Daniel's death.

Daniel's son Daniel Johnson Cambridge served in the Royal Artillery and the latter's daughter Nurse Kathleen Cambridge worked in Belgium with Nurse Edith Cavell from 1911. Kathleen passed through the British lines on the eve of the Battle of Mons in 1914 and last saw Nurse Cavell a few days before Nurse Cavell was arrested in August 1915. Nurse Cavell was court marshalled, found guilty of aiding the escape of 200 allied soldiers through German lines and was shot by firing squad. Kathleen, known as the Angel of Mons by soldiers whose wounds she treated, was repatriated to England in January 1916.

For more info, click here to visit a site dedicated to Daniel Cambridge VC - Yeoman of the Guard