The tablet illustrated caught my eye, particularly because of recent reading of first world war memoirs. The first war looks to have taken rather a lot of men from this junior branch of the Cliffords of Chudleigh, these last being elevated to the peerage during the restoration. This junior branch being, very properly, very army.
The tablet also giving the lie to the rather bizarre claim, which I once heard in a public house, that no-one above the rank of major was killed on the British side during that first war.
The Victoria Cross arose from leading a charge at the battle of Inkerman in 1854.
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