I have Sergeant Albert Mitchell of the 13th Light Dragoons, and later Kent Police in my family tree. He was one of the few who took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade and lived to tell the tale - in his case he went one better, and wrote the book. (Recollections of one of the Light Brigade)
I have the book, and have always been fascinated by the very matter of fact description as they went in of 'seeing Captain Nolan on ours fall in front of me'. It didn't look like that when David Hemmings did it!
I always understood he was my grandfather's great uncle, and my mother was very proud of the book, understandably, as her great-great uncle's work.
That's the trouble with genealogy. You go in and get the facts..
Yes, he's definitely in the tree, but he wasn't exactly my grandfather's great uncle, which would have made him Grandad's Grandmother's brother.
He was Grandad's Grandmother's first cousin, and it seems the two families were brought up very close together in Kent, so she probably thought of him as a brother.
That's my lot I'm afraid, all the rest of us are extremely boring..
Maggie
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