It's looking a bit empty here Annie.

I've been a bit distracted by English geography the last couple of days.

A rather graphic account of the first to fall:
Captain Louis Nolan, 15th Hussars Originally from Cecil Woodham-Smith in "The Reason Why" and para-phrased by Edward J Dodson in "The Light Brigade, England's Charge Borne on Ireland's Back"
http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/dodson_england_and_ireland_and_crimean_war.html"Before the Light Brigade had advanced fifty yards......the Russian guns crashed out and great clouds of smoke rose at the end of the valley..... The advance was proceeding at a steady trot when suddenly Nolan....urged on his horse and began to gallop diagonally across the front......he crossed in front of Lord Cardigan and, turning in his saddle, shouted and waved his sword as if he would address the Brigade, but the guns were firing with great crashes and not a word could be heard. At that moment a Russian shell burst on the right of Lord Cardigan and a fragment tore it's way into Nolan's breast, exposing his heart. The sword fell from his hand, but his arm was still erect and his body remained rigid in the saddle. His horse wheeled and began to gallop back through the advancing Brigade and then from the body there burst a strange and appalling cry, a shriek so unearthly as to freeze the blood of all who heard him. The terrified horse carried the body, still shrieking, through the 4th Light Dragoons and then at last Nolan fell from the saddle dead."
The obituary of Captain Lewis (sic) Edward Nolan, from the London Illustrated News, 25th November 1854, oblivious at the time of the controversy which would surround him:
http://www.silverwhistle.co.uk/crimea/obituary.htmlPhil
