Crimean War
- Col. R. E. B. Crompton (1845–1940) — Last and youngest British veteran. Also fought in the Indian Mutiny.
- Yves Prigent (1833–1938) — French sailor.
- Charles Nathan (1834–1934) — Last French soldier, also saw action in Italy, Syria, Mexico and the Franco-Prussian War.
- Edwin Hughes (1830–1927) — Last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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“This is no war for domination or imperial aggrandisement or material gain.... It is a war ... to establish, on impregnable rocks, the rights of the individual and it is a war to establish and revive the stature of man.”
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