Daniel Cambridge VC

Welcome to the home page of my web site!  I'm Peter Howell and a great great grandson of Daniel Cambridge VC.

Danny won the Victoria Cross on 8th September, 1855, at Sebastopol during the Crimean War whilst serving with the Royal Regiment of Artillery.

When he retired from the Regiment after 32 years of service in 1871 Danny became a Yeoman of the Guard, a member of Queen Victoria's Body Guard.

The Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard are the bodyguard of the British Monarch. The oldest extant British military corps, it was created by King Henry VII in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the Yeomen of the Guard still wear today their red and gold Tudor-style uniforms complete with arquebus cross belt, the latter distiquishing the Yeomen of the Guard from the Tower of London's Yeomen Warders, a distinctly different Corps.

The term "Yeomen of the Guard" is frequently but erroneously applied to the Tower's Yeomen Warders. Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan appear to have shared in this confusion too for their operetta "The Yeomen the Guard" centres on the Yeomen Warders at the Tower.

This will be the story, at least my story, of my great great grandfather

Master Gunner
Daniel Cambridge VC
Yeoman of the Guard