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« Reply #198 on: Saturday 08 March 08 22:40 GMT (UK) »
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« Reply #199 on: Saturday 08 March 08 22:40 GMT (UK) »
An interesting memento of the charge of the light brigade at Balaklava is to be sold in London shortly - the trumpet of Trumpet Major Gray, who was an orderly to Lord Cardigan, and with him headed the charge of "The Six Hundred". His medals and the cross of the French Legion of Honor will be also auctioned.

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« Reply #200 on: Saturday 08 March 08 22:47 GMT (UK) »

Here's a soldier who just missed the action .... although on the list of "Chargers " .......

John Lawrenson joined the 13th Light Dragoons as a Cornet, 12th November 1818, exchanging to the 4th Dragoon Guards in 1822.  He joined the 17th Lancers (as Captain) on 15th March 1827.  Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 13th Light Dragoons in 1845, he returned to the 17th Lancers in April 1851 and was Brevet-Colonel, 20 June 1854.
Owing to sickness he was granted leave of absence on 23rd October 1854, thus leaving for England just two days before the Charge of the Light Brigade.  He received his Crimea medal from Queen Victoria on Horse Guards Parade on 18th May 1855.
Following his recovery he was Brigadier-General in command of the Heavy Brigade (July 1855), and he later succeeded Sir James Scarlett as Commander of British Cavalry in the East.  He retired with the rank of General in 1877, and died on 30th October 1883.

*  E.J. Boys Archive - Col John Lawrenson 17th Lancers

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« Reply #201 on: Saturday 08 March 08 22:56 GMT (UK) »
Storr & Sons of Covent Garden will offer for sale the bugle on which the late Trumpet Major H. Joy, staff trumpeter to Colonel the Earl of Lucan, then in command of cavalry in the Crimea - sounded the order for the gallop and charge on this memorial occasion, the other regimental trumpeters taking up the call from him.


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« Reply #202 on: Saturday 08 March 08 23:02 GMT (UK) »
Benjamin Boville, one of the famous 600 who participated in the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava died in Troy on Sunday.

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« Reply #203 on: Saturday 08 March 08 23:07 GMT (UK) »
The book you wish you had Annie  ;D ;D ;D

http://www.lawrencecrider.com/

Take a look at the Updates and Additions section particularly which includes biographies of James William Wightman and Alexander Low.
It also has the "definitive" list of the Chargers.

Phil :)
Sussex: Satcher (Hamsey) and Gatton (East Grinstead)
Leicestershire: Pratt
South Wales: Evans (Neath)
Poland: Gonet, Deren

Forest Row: War Memorial and Camp WW1
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« Reply #204 on: Saturday 08 March 08 23:24 GMT (UK) »


I know Phil .... it's on my birthday wish list !!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I want a proper copy !!  ;D

James William Wightman 1177  17th Lancers

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Fifty men only, blinded and stunned, had survived from the first line. Private Wightman of the 17th Lancers felt the frightful crash, saw his captain fall dead; then his horse made a 'tremendous leap into the air', though what he jumped at Wightman never knew - the pall of smoke was so dense that he could not see his arm before him - but suddenly he was in the battery, and in the darkness there were sounds of fighting and slaughter. The scene, was extraordinary: smoke so obscured the sun that it was barely twilight, and in the gloom the British troopers, maddened with excitement, cut and thrust and hacked like demons, while the Russian gunners with superb courage fought to remove the guns

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« Reply #205 on: Saturday 08 March 08 23:29 GMT (UK) »

Just a thought .... look how many of them went to America and Canada !!  :)

That amazes me !!

Annie  :)

Edit .... we still have loads to find !!  :P :P :P

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« Reply #206 on: Saturday 08 March 08 23:34 GMT (UK) »
And again Blair Irwin : http://www.rootschat.com/links/02x8/ 

Blair Irwin, 67 years old, native of Sligo, Ireland, and a survivor of the battle at Balaklava and the charge of the Light brigade, is making arrangements to walk from Boston to Chicago, carrying the American and English flags. He resides in Boston.

12 May 1893