Extract from the "Wakefield Express" for the 24th of September 1859:
"Presentation to Geo. O. Wombwell, Bart. - On Wednesday the 14th inst; the tenants of Sir George Wombwell, Bart., of Newburgh Hall, presented him with his portrait, as a testimony of their personal esteem of him, and to commemorate his services at Balaclava in the Crimean War.
The picture, which is by Mr. Dickinson, of Portland Place, London [presumably Lowes Cato Dickinson (1819-1908)], represents the gallant Baronet in the midst of a battlefield, in the uniform of the regiment to which he belonged (the 17th Lancers) with his helmet resting upon his knee, and his foot on a dismounted cannon. The charger which he rode in the Crimea, called "Turk", which had several narrow escapes, is fully represented as standing beside its master."
[PB: Wombwell wrote in 1854 that "the horse that was killed under me at Balaclava was the little bay horse that was born and bred at Newburgh". According to the inscription on "Turk's grave at Newburgh, he carried Wombwell earlier, at Inkerman and Alma. For more on More on George Wombwell's horse, "Turk", see below and here. ]
PB: In January 2013, a photograph of the grave of George Wombwell's horse "Turk" was found on the Flickr website. The image is said to have been taken on 15 June 1934. The accompanying description states:
This is of course the same text as on the wall in the grassy "pleasance" mentioned in the "Dalesman" article in July 1982 [quoted at greater length on the main page]:"Behind the Home Farm on the Newburgh Priory estate, Coxwold, is a lonely grave. The solitary stone, enclosed by railings, marks the resting place of a faithful charger which carried his master in the Crimean War. The weathered inscription on the stone reads:
'THE TURK. He went to the East in the Spring of 1854, and carried Sir George Wombwell, Baronet, at the battles of The Alma and Inkerman. Died at Newburgh, aged 26.'
"On the brick wall there is a memorial to a horse, which reads, "In memory of Turk. He went the East in the Spring of 1854 and carried Sir George O. Wombwell, Bt. at the battles of Alma and Inkerman. Died at Newburgh, aged 26 years."
Are there two memorials, or was the memorial in the field moved?
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