The London Gazette described his actions as follows: When the formation of the line of the Regiment was disordered at Alma, Captain Lindsay stood firm with the Colours, and by his example and energy, greatly tended to restore order.

[5] The brief period as Equerry was due to his engagement and impending marriage to The Honorable Harriet Sarah Jones Loyd.

[8] Loyd-Lindsay sat as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Berkshire from 1865[9][10][11][12] until 1885[13] and served under Lord Beaconsfield as Financial Secretary to the War Office between 1877 and 1880.

[16] Having been initiated as a Freemason, passed and raised in Malta en route to the Crimea in 1854, he became Provincial Grand Master of Berkshire from 1898 until his death in 1901.

With the outbreak of the war serving as the immediate catalyst, John Furley met with Loyd-Lindsay to ask him if he would help set up a British Red Cross society in the United Kingdom.

A letter from Loyd-Lindsay was published in The Times on 22 July calling for a national society in the United Kingdom, and pledging £1000 of his own money to the new initiative.

Loyd-Lindsay continued to serve as chairman of the newly founded National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War (renamed the British Red Cross in 1905) until his death.

In 1877 he paid for a marble statue of King Alfred by Count Gleichen to be erected in Wantage market place, where it still stands today.

[20][19] This contained paintings by Louis William Desanges depicting deeds which led to the award of a number of VCs, including his own gained during the Crimean War.

There are various inscriptions on the faces of the monument with the one on the North East side, being in Latin and is similar to that inscribed on the Iona Cross on Gibbet Hill, Hindhead, Surrey, namely: Which translates as: "Peace in passing away.