One for Liverpool Annie (Continued in Part 2)

[Suziesmith37]

That brave soul had a slightly better quality of life when he came home than most I have read!   

So the Liverpool Annie Collection - Published in 12 Leather Bound Volumes!?

May I start subscribing now please?

Su

[liverpool annie]

http://www.soldiermagazine.co.uk/reviews/books.htm

Pte Robert Martin of the 11th Hussars

[Tephra]

Only 12 leather bound volumes Su..........I reckon there would be more.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm finding all this simply brilliant.   I eagerly await the next bit.

Barbara

[Suziesmith37]

Showing me age now but do you remember Sat morning flicks with the adventures of The Lone Ranger and Flash Gordon?

You always got that bit of the end of the episode where The Lone Ranger is hanging on by one fingernail, surrounded by 12 natives over a 500 ft drop and you heard 'Find out what happens in next weeks thrilling episode'.......

This thread is exactly like that - love it!

On a serious note though Annie I do hope you commit some of your knowledge to print for the Generations to come.  Too much to be lost!

Su

[liverpool annie]

Now just to go outside the box a bit ...... not quite the Charge ... but associated .... lets say ..... !!

Here's a fascinating woman

MARY SEACOLE 1805 - 1881

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Seacole

http://www.maryseacole.com/maryseacole/pages/aboutmary.html

[liverpool annie]

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Walsall/StMatthew/picture4.html

June 16 1900  - Memorial in Walsall church to Charge of the Light Brigade hero Sgt-Major Purvis unveiled

A wall monument holds a medallion bust of William Purvis, a Walsall soldier who served in the 17th Lancers for 24 years, who was one of the small band of survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade

but I can't find a picture !! 

[Suziesmith37]

Sorry I got lost in the Seacole Story - What a Woman.

Re:Memorial Walsall Church I think this is it but not too clear - Su

[liverpool annie]

Wonder if Kenhar ... the miracle worker could help it ?? 

That's cool though Su ... I couldn't find it at all ! ... I was thinking about posting to see if anybody knew of a picture !!

Annie 

[liverpool annie]

Here's a paragraph that gave me goosebumps .......... 

Lord Cardigan, however, looking up the valley over the scene of the charge, could see no sign of his brigade. The valley was strewn with dead and dying; small groups of men — wounded or unhorsed — were struggling towards the British lines; both his aides-de-camp had vanished; he had ridden never once looking back, and had no idea of what the fate of his brigade had been. Nor had he any feeling of responsibility — in his own words, having 'led the Brigade and launched them with due impetus, he considered his duty was done'. The idea of trying to find out what had happened to his men or of rallying the survivors never crossed his mind. With extraordinary indifference to danger he had led the Light Brigade down the valley as if he were leading a charge in a review in Hyde Park, and he now continued to behave as if he were in a review in Hyde Park. He had, however, he wrote, some apprehension that for a general his isolated position was unusual, and he avoided any undignified appearance of haste by riding back very slowly, most of the time at a walk. By another miracle he was untouched by the fire from the Causeway Heights, which, although the batteries on the Fedioukine Hills had been silenced by the French, was still raking the unfortunate survivors of the charge in the valley. As he rode he continued to brood on Nolan's behaviour, and on nothing else. The marvelous ride, the dauntless valour of the Light Brigade and their frightful destruction, his own miraculous escape from death, made no impression on his mind; Nolan's insubordination occupied him exclusively, and when he reached the point where the Heavy Brigade was halted, he rode up to General Scarlett and immediately broke into accusations of Nolan, furiously complaining of Nolan's insubordination, his ride across the front of the brigade, his attempt to assume command and., Lord Cardigan finished contemptuously, 'Imagine the fellow screaming like a woman when he was hit'. General Scarlett checked him: 'Say no more, my lord; you have just ridden over Captain Nolan's dead body'