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Eureka, Ballarat Heritage Services Picture Collection.


Background

Two regiments of the British Army were involved in the Eureka Stockade. They were the 12th Regiment and the 40th Regiment.

12th Regiment

The 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment

Robert Adair, George Arden, William Bird, Felix Boyle, John Egan, Henry Goddard, Henry Goddard, Richard Hargreaves, William Hustable, John Kempt, George Littlehales, Garret Shanahan, William Webb

Eureka, Ballarat Heritage Services Picture Collection.

40th Regiment

The 40th (2nd Somersetshire Regiment)

After Eureka some of the 40th Regiment were posted to New Zealand.

Josiah Bigsby, Denis Brien, John Broadhurst, Martin Cusack, Thomas Fitzgerald, Charles Hall, Thomas Reed, Cornelius Sorrell, Thomas Valiant, Joseph Wall, Henry Wise

Wise Memorial, Leek Wooton, Photography: Clare Gervasoni, 2001.

"Sacred to the memory of Henry Christopher Wise Esq, captain in H.M. 40th 2nd Somerset Regiment. Eldest son of Henry Christopher and Harriett Wise of Woodcote, who died on the 21st of December 1854 at Mt Ballarat, Victoria, South Australia, or wounds received on the third of the same month, while gallantly leading his company to the assembly of the rebel stockade at Eureka, Ballarat. This tablet is erected by the officers of the 40th Regiment."