One for Liverpool Annie (Continued in Part 2)

[liverpool annie]

Oh my oh my !! 

Look at all these boys !!  ....... Wendi will be pleased - one in Colorado Springs too !! 

Luckily I'll be able to have time to look tomorrow and see what I can find out .... how exciting !! 

[seamike]

Alexander Sutherland, said to have been the last survivor of the famous Balaklava "Six Hundred" is dead at his home in Denver, where he had resided for forty years. He was the trumpeter who sounded the bugle call for the charge immortalized by Tennyson.

Nov. 12, 1904, Los Angeles Times

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Hiram Williamson *, one of the immortal six hundred who rode into the "valley of death" at Balaklava in 1854, has been made chief porter at the Boston post-office. He is seventy years of age.

June 15, 1889, The Genesse News

* E.J. Boys Archive - missing

[liverpool annie]

Mike ! .... how many buglers do we have - that sounded "the charge " ?? 

Unless each battalion sounded their own ......... do you think ?? 

Annie 

[seamike]

Annie, you know, during Soviet times we had a joke about hundreds of people who carried the same log with Lenin during subbotnik in Kremlin 

But maybe it was like this?
 

Posted by: seamike      Posted on: Yesterday at 00:56:56
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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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New York, May 17. - John Kennedy, a prominent contractor of Brooklyn, one of the survivors of the famous charge at Balaklava, is dead from pneumonia. He was born at Belfast in 1835, and served in the Crimean War as a gunner in the Royal Horse Artillery, took part in its greatest battles and after serving fourting years under the British flag came to America, where he amassed a fortune as a contractor and builder.

May 18, 1904, Los Angeles Times

* E.J. Boys Archive - missing
Six Kennedy's in Archive, three lancers, two hussars, one light dragoon, but no gunner from Royal Artillery

[liverpool annie]

Annie, you know, during Soviet times we had a joke about hundreds of people who carried the same log with Lenin during subbotnik in Kremlin 

 

Maybe it was like echo "taps" ??

Here's the Order of Battle at the Balaclava campaign

Allied Army ........ The Allied Army consisted of British and French troops as well as Turkish formations under British command.

British Army

Commanded by Field Marshal Lord Raglan.
Cavalry Division - under Lieutenant-General the Earl of Lucan with a total force of 1,500 sabres and 6 field guns.
Heavy Brigade - Brigadier the Hon. James Scarlett
1st (Royal) Regiment of Dragoons (The Royals) - Lt. Col. John Yorke
2nd (Royal North British) Regiment of Dragoons (The Scots Greys) - Lt. Col. Henry Griffith
4th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoon Guards - Lt. Col. Edward Hodge
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards - Maj. Adolphus Burton
6th (Inskilling) Regiment of Dragoons - Lt. Col. Henry White
Light Brigade - Maj. Gen. the Earl of Cardigan
4th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of Light Dragoons - Lt. Col. Lord George Paget
8th (The King's Royal Irish) Regiment of Hussars - Lt. Col. Frederick Shewell
11th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Hussars - Lt. Col. John Douglas
13th Regiment of Light Dragoons - Capt. John Oldman
17th Regiment of Light Dragoons (Lancers) - Capt. William Morris
1st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. HRH The Duke of Cambridge with 4,000 men.
Guards Brigade - Maj. Gen. H.J. Bentwick
3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards
1st Battalion Coldstream Guards
1st Battalion Scots Fusiliers Guards
Highland Brigade
42nd Regiment
93rd Regiment
4th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Sir George Cathcart with 5,000 men.
1st Brigade - Brigadier T. Goldie
20th Regiment
21st Regiment
57th Regiment
68th Regiment
2nd Brigade - Brigadier A. Torrens
63rd Regiment
46th Regiment
1st Battalion The Rifle Brigade
Balaclava defenses - Maj. Gen. Sir Colin Campbell with 4,000 men and 35 naval and field guns.
Causeway Heights - 3 Turkish battalions plus 9 naval guns.
Kadikoi Area - 93rd Regiment and 1 battalion of Turks
Eastern Heights - 1,200 Marines plus 2 companies from 93rd Regiment.

French Army

Commanded by General François Certain Canrobert.
1st Cavalry Brigade - General d'Allonville with 1,500 sabres.
1e Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique
4eme Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique
Corps d'Observation - General Pierre Bosquet
1st Brigade - General Espinasse
4e Régiment de Chasseurs
1e Zouaves
7e Régiment de Ligne
2nd Brigade - General Joseph Vinoy with 4,000 men.
9th Régiment de Chasseurs
20th Régiment de Ligne
27th Régiment de Ligne

Russian Army

Commanded by Prince Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov with a total of 25,000 men and 78 guns.
Cavalry - Lt. Gen. Ryzhov with 3,000 sabres and 16 guns.
Kiev Regiment
Ingermanland Regiment
(No.)1 Ural Cossacks
North Column - Col. Skiuderi with 4,000 men and 12 guns.
Odessa Regiment
(No.)53 Don Cossacks
(No.)4 Rifle Battalion (1 company)
Left Center Column - Maj. Gen. Semiakin with 5,000 men and 10 guns.
Azov Regiment
Dnieper Regiment
(No.)4 Rifle Battalion (1 company)
Right Center Column - Maj. Gen. Levutski with 3,000 men and 8 guns.
Ukraine Regiment
South Column - Maj. Gen. Gribbe with 3,000 men and 10 guns
Dnieper Regiment
Composite Uhlan Regiment
Ingermanland Regiment
(No.)60 Don Cossacks
Forward Reserves - Maj. Gen. Zhaboritski with 5,000 men and 10 guns.
Vladimir Regiment
Susdal Regiment
(No.)6 Rifle Battalion
Ingermanland Regiment (two squadrons)
(No.)60 Don Cossacks (two sotnias)
Reserves - total of 2,000 men and 12 guns.
Ukraine Regiment (1 squadron)
(No.)4 Rifle Battalion (1 company)
Composite Uhlan Regiment

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At a recent anniversary and jubilee of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava, calebrated by a dinner at the Holborn Restaurant, London, twenty-eight of the fourty-seven survivors were present. In general the veterans were in excellent physical condition, although one or two were lame, and one, nearly blind, had to be led to his seat. Among the dishes served to the happy warriors were "Balaklava pudding" and "jelly a la Russe".

Dec 15, 1904, The Youth's Companion

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London, Nov. 14. - Lieut. Col. Arthur Tremayne, * one of the few remaining survivors of the "Charge of the Light Brigade" at Balaklava, in which he was wounded and his horse shot, died in Cornwall to-day at the age of 78.


* E.J. Boys Archive - Tremayne Cpt Arthur 13th LD