"An officer in the Crimea," Inverness Courier, Feb. 5, 1909, p. 3f.
 
"Major-General the Hon. William Henry Herbert died at Winsley Hall, Shrewsbury, in his 75th year. He was the fifth son of the second Earl of Powis, and, obtaining his commission in 1852, served with the 46th Regiment in the Crimea from July 1855, taking part in the siege of Sebastopol to the fall of the fortress, and receiving for the campaign the medal with clasp and the Turkish medal. From November 1870 he was assistant adjutant general of the northern district."