9 сентября 1855 господин Deputy Assistant Commissary William Gair of the Field Train Department вынес из оставленного Севастополя кота.
Назвал Томом и привез в Англию.
Кот умер 31 декабря 1856 г.
Ныне он находится в Национальном музее армии



(On 9 September 1855 after a year's siege, British and French forces entered the ruins of the Russian port of Sevastopol in the Crimea. They found the city filled with the dead and dying. One fortunate survivor was the cat, 'Crimean Tom', rescued from the devastated city by Deputy Assistant Commissary William Gair of the Field Train Department. He brought Tom back to England as a pet. Tom died on 31 December 1856 and his skin was stuffed and mounted and eventually presented to the Royal United Service Institution).

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