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HEROES OF BALACLAVA
NOW ARE STARVING
TO DEATH IN ENGLAND
Many Members of the Famous Light Brigade
Inmates of the Poorhouse.
By W. B. NORTHROP.
[Photographs and letter press entered at Stationers’ Hall ]
, Copyright, 190}, by Central News and Press Exchange.
“Half-a-league, half-a-lengue, half-a
lbague: onward!
Into the valley of death, rode the six
hundred.”
Every American schoolboy has re
cited those stirring lines. Nearly every
body knows them by heart.
But nearly everybody does not know
that the men who led that famous
charge are to-day starving to death.
Literally starving.
The breath of life is kept in a few
survivors by pitiful donations of $1.25
and $2.50 per week, raised by private
subscription, while others have already
sought rest in paupers' graves. Scat
tered about England, in various poor
houses, a few of these men, whose
fa nip once shook the world, daily long
for the death that passed them by on
the Held of battle.
“The Charge of the Light Brigade”—
Tennyson's immortal poem—has made
the .general aspects of the battle of
Balaclava familiar to the world.
With the details of the particular in
cident, or Just who it was that "blun
dered'’ in giving the order which anni
hilated the brigade, very few are ac
quainted.
Most persons imagine that the sur
vivors of the wonderfully daring ad
venture are to-day enjoying comfort
able pensions in some old soldiers’
home. It is generally supposed that
their breasts proudly bear the deco
rations for gallantry, of which Eng
land is so profuse when young Lord
Nobody or the Viscount de Bragalony,
exposes his delicate cuticle to the sun
In some land-grabbing war against
unarmed natives.
Denied the Victoria Crone.
A* a matter of fact—and to Eng
land's disgrtioe, he it said —the Bala
i veterans received practically ro
bstantial recognition of their brave
ed. Many of them were even perse-
OTted for daring to infer that the offi
cer who gave the fool order might
siave been mistaken. The Victoria
Cross was even denied the very man
who organized the survivors and led
them ttock from the jaws of death.
Whenever there is a procession of
any importance in London, one may
see a handful of very old men, with
a few medals on their coats, standing
somewhere along the line of route.
Their shoulders are stooped: they are
dressed in motley garb; their faces
are pale and marked with care and
privat ion.
Perhaps, as the King or Queen pass
ed by, their august majesties will bow
slightly, or smile woodenly, and pass
on.
The crowd will cheer at the very
idea of the King or Queen giving these
men so much as a bow.
But men cannot live on a smile
even when It emanates from the sov
ereign. The only sovereign that would
do the Balaclava veterans any good
to Um k lad that kau to abilUuga in it:
and this kind the British government
has ever denied.
The writer not long ago asked a
British officer of high rank how it was
that the men never received any pen
sion, or were left to shirk for them
selves after they came back from the
war, some of them so badly wounded
as to be wholly incapacitated from
making a living.
tied Tape In tlie Way.
Here is the stenographic reply, de
livered with an embarrassed twirl of
the moustache:
“Well, really, you see, these men
had never served their full term of
military service.
“In order to obtain a pension, a
man must serve his full twenty-one,
or twenty-five years. Many of the Bal
aclava men had only been in service
fifteen years; hence they could not
get a pension.”
Red tape and officialism has forever
stood in the way of recognizing the
men who took part in the charge; while
the notorious incompetence of a Brit
ish titled officer —who did not even
know how to issue orders, and after
wards lied to save himself—was the
cause of the total wreck of one of the
finest army corps in the world.
Were It not for the private charity
of one man, T. H. Roberts, of 158 Fleet
street, London, who a few 7 years ago
began to investigate the condition of
the Light Brigade survivors, the small
est remnant of the company still in
existence would be negligible quantities
on the earth's surface.
Mr. Roberts' during Jubilee year, is
sued an invitation to the existing Light
Brigade veterans to come to an enter
tainment. On receiving very few re
sponses, he began investigations.
“In consequence of my invitation.”
he recently said, “to all survivors of
the Charge of the Light Brigade to
be my guests in Fleet street during
Jubilee year, it was discovered that
some of these men were in the work
house" (the English poorhouse). Three
of them, through coming to Fleet
street, obtained employment, and did
not return to the workhouse, hut there
are still others, who, though not actual
ly in the 'house,' are, so to speak, at
its portals. Many of them are very
fine old men. indeed, and it is looked
upon as a national disgrace that they
should need food—as some of them
actually have done.”
When some of the men heard that
Mr. Roberts was gettng up a fund,
they actually walked two hundred miles
from the little English towns, where
they had found refuge among friends,
and a few of them, on reaching the
Fleet street office, fainted from star
vation and fatigue.
When Trumpet Sergeant Perkins of
the Seventeenth Lancers—the van of
the great charge—died on July 13. 1902
his mother, who was 88 years old, had
to beg for money to bury her gallant
son, who. during his life, had been too
proud to ask for aid.
The lips that had blown breath Into
the trumpet that had sounded that
famous charge were too proud to shape i
themselves Into a request for bread. J
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Trumpeter Perkins had managed to
make a living on his return from the
front; but on his death he had not
saved even the $25 necessary to defray
the expenses of the cheapest kind of
a funeral. His wounds had taken him
to his grave unmourned save by the
aged mother who survived him.
Those Hurled lly Charity.
Another survivor of the charge, W.
Pitt, and his wife, died on March 2,
1901, both being buried by charity.
Other survivors buried by charity
were the following: R. Palframan of
the Eighth Hussars, died March, 1900;
M. Hackett, same company, died .Tan.
17, 1899; W. Sheppard, same company,
died July, 1900; R. Briggs, Eleventh
Hussars, died Dec. 18, 1901; J. Glannis
ter, same company, died March 24, '901;
C. Cork, died Jan. 20. 1900; J. Swiney,
died October. 1899, Seventeenth Lan
cers; T. Mullins, same company, died
July 22. 1899; J. Smith. Seventeenth
Lancers, died Jan. 28, 1899, and Trum
peter Perkins, above referred to.
. All these men died in the most ab
ject poverty, and their bodies would
have been shunted into Potter's Field
by the wealthiest nation in the world
had it not ben for the timely help of
private charity.
Most of the present survivors are in
capable of making their own living,
both through age and from wounds.
The charge took place on Oct. 25, 1854
forty-nine years ‘ago. and, as the aver
age age of the men composing the Light
Brigade was about 26 years, the aver
age of the survivors to-day is about
75 years. Men at that age are not sup
posed to be very strenuous, even un
der the most propitious circumstances.
Out of 670 men all told, who went
ipto that 'Valley of death.” only 198
returned mounted. Of those 198 men,
all had been through a rain of shot
and shell, and there was but one man
unwounded. One man, Private Weight
man, was wounded in thirteen places,
and each wound was serious. Still,
he recovered and lived to learn whVtt
military glory means when rewarded
by a grateful country.
Wife Takes in Washing.
Corpl. N. W. Eastover, the youngest
man in the charge—he was 18—to-day
lives in great poverty, and his wife
manages to help support him by taking
in washing.
Most of the present survivors are
kept alive by the fund raised by Mr.
Roberts. He sends these men each
Friday a postal order for $1.25 or $2.50
—according to the necessities of the
Did You Ever Wear a
SUIT?
If not, get one and experience that self
satisfied feeling.
men—and, as some of the men are mar
ried and have children —the youngest
child born to a survivor being but 4
years old—the gentle reader can fig
ure out whether these men are living
in affluence or not.
Out of this $1.25 per week, the men
have to feed and clothe themselves,
and to pay rent. How they manage it
is one of those mysteries of finance
which the poor guard so careful[y.
Last year, Queen Alexandra sent SSO
towards the fund raised by Mr. Rob
erts, and there was a sort of half
promise on the Queen’s part that the
j donation would become annual.
As the family of the Queen gets
about $5,000,000 per annum out of the
government, it Is doubted if the SSO
will be greatly missed by her majesty.
It might help to keep up the esprit de
corps of the present British army. The
army needs it badly just now. Last
year the spectacle of starving Reserv
ists —soldiers back from South Africa—
wandering through London's streets
was a sight for the gods.
Some of these men showed the shock
ing bad taste by committing suicide in
the public parks without first consult
ing their superior officers.
England’s treatment of the Reserv
ists and of the Light Brigade veterans
is not likely to make a deep Impres
sion on those who owe the country
their allegiance.
As to the actual charge Itself. Its
main features are more or less back
history. There are some points,
however, which are wholly unknown.
It took place during the Crimean
War, in 1854, when the British, French
and Turkish armies w r ere fighting the
Russians. Balaclava harbor was the
base of supplies for the allied army
engaged in the siege of Sebastopol.
The Commander Was Asleep.
The commander of the Light Brigade,
Lord Cardigan, on the morning of the
battle, was quietly sleeping seven miles
away from his command, on his pri
vate yacht in Balaclava h'arbor. Dur
ing his absence, and when the Rus
sians were actually found to be ap
proaching in force. Lord Cardigan's
command was taken charge of by Lord
Paget.
After Lord Cardigan came on the
scene, the Heavy Brigade succeeded
in dispersing some Russian troops, and
Lord Cardigan and Lord Paget went
off to take some ‘light refreshments"
while they congratulated the officers
of the Heavy Brigade in the work.
The "light refreshment" seems to
have mixed Lord Paget up, for, in a
book afterward, he stated he could
never understand how it was that the
Eighth Hussars gut into his command
instead of the Eleventh Hussars.
In general charge of the operations
wal Lord Raglan, who issued his or
ders to the various aides by whom he
was surrounded. He saw that the Rus
sians were trying to remove some guns
from certain redoubts, and he issued
an order to the Earl of Lucan, in
charge of Cavalry division, to attack
the Russians to prevent them from
removing the guns.
Lucan did not understand how to
move cavalry, and was so ignorant
that he did not know what Lord Rag
lan's orders meant.
The Mistaken Order.
Three peremptory orders were sent
to the Earl of Lucan, hut he did ab
solutely nothing with the forces at his
command. The third order to Lucan
from Lord Raglan was this:
“The cavalry to advance and take
advantage of any opportunity to re
cover the Heights, and they would be
supported by infantry, which had been
ordered to advance on ttvo fronts.”
On receiving this order, Lord Aucan
made no attempt whatever to advance
in obedience to orders.
Then Lord Raglan gave the fourth
order to Capt. Nolan, dashing officer,
who was instructed to see that it was
carried out. Not one of these orders
even suggested that the cavalry should
charge.
, At the end of the valley in front of
Lucan’s forces the Russians had put
in position their best artillery, sup
ported by five or six thousand cavalry,
and the Russian infantry was in posi
tion on the commanding hills on each
side of the valley. Lord Raglan knew
that to order a charge of cavalry up
that valley were sheer foolhardiness.
Lord Raglan's order (the last one)
read:
“Lord Raglan wishes the cavalry to
advance rapidiv to the front and try
to prevent the enemy carrying away
the guns. Troop of horse artillery may
accompany. French cavalry on your
left.”
Lucan informed Lord Cardigan that
it was Lord Raglan's order that the
Light Brigade should charge the Rus
sians in the valley. Lord Raglan's or
der had said nothing about charging
up the valley with the Light Brigade,
and Lord Cardigan pointed this out,
and showed where it would mean an
nihilation. The Earl of Lucan, never
theless. ordered the Light Brigade to
charge.
Lord Raglan had said that “Troop of
Horse Artillery may accompany,” but
Lucan paid no attention to this part of
the order, and “went it alone.” The
regiment of direction—the one who di
rected the others—was the Seventeenth
Lancers. On their right were the Thir
teenth Light Dragoons, and on the left
the Eleventh Hussars. They were led
by Lord Cardigan. Coming behind
these troops, led by Lord Paget, were
the Fourth Light Dragoons and the
Eighth Hussars.
At this juncture, the story can be
taken up by Thomas Moriey of the
Seventeenth Lancers, who was in the
thick of the fight, as the Seventeerith
Hussars were the guiding regiment.
By Thomas Moriey.
[One of the survivors of the charge
of the Light Brigade.]
“We went three left, the right flank
of the Second squadron topping the left
flank of the first one-fourth its front
or more, so that the two flanks became
merged together. At that Instant, the
Russian artillery in position across the
valley fired a volley into the Seven
teenth, which semed to paralyze it,
killing and wounding a number of of
ficers and men.
'lt seemed to me a troop of horse
fell, myself and horse being knocked
down with them. I remounted and
followed the shattered line.
‘ln the tremendous uproar and con
fusion of such cannonading It was im
possible to have any distinct impres
sion. The smoke prevented any one
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from seeing- any distance, and the noise
front hearing, so I never heard an offi
cer’s voice.
’’The Russian gunners were well
drilled; all the cannon went off at the
word of command; all together. One
tremendous volley w*as heard, with
flashes of flame through the rolling
smoke.
“There were probably twenty can
non at our right firing at us, and two
batteries—twelve guns—in front.
“If we had been moving on uneven
ground we should have had some slight
protection, in the necessary uncertain
ty of aim of guns, but moving as we
did in compact bodies on smooth
ground directly in range, the gunners
had an admirable target and every
volley came with terrible effect.
How tlie Gnus Belchea.
“There is a natural instinct to dodge
cannon balls. In such fire as we were
under, it changed into an impulse to
hurry. There was no time to look
right or left, and the guns in front
were what I looked out for.
“The were visible as streaks of Are
about two feet long, and a foot thick
in the center of a gush of thick white
smoke marking about ever 300 yards
of the way, as they would reload in
thirty or forty seconds.
“The last volley w’ent off when we
were close on them. The flame, the
smoke, the roar were in our face. It is
not an exaggeration to compare the
sensation to that of riding into the
mouth of a volcano; but those who did
not fall tvere through the guns in an
instant and full of fight.
“Our arrival at the battery silenced
it instantly. My first thought after we
were through the line was to look for
an officer to see what we were to do.
I saw Lord Cardigan at first, but had
no impulse to join him. I think no
British soldier ever had.
They Fired to Get Back.
“Then we tried to get back. The Jer
opkine Lancers (Russian) had formed
in closed lines across the valley, cut
ting off our retreat. I turned back to
my scattered comrades who were rid
ing about like myself in all directions,
and I hastily formed them in lines,
putting those with lances in front.
“The Russian Lancers were not more
than forty yards from us when I or
dered my men to cheer and charge. Tht
Russians must have thought we were
assembling to surrender, and when we
yelled and charged into the center of
their line they seemed to be paralyzed.
“We broke through and galloped oft
on our way back, pursued by Cossacks
firing at us, until we came to a square
of infantry on rising ground with mus
kets and fixed bayonets pointing at us.
They yelled something in Russian, I
suppose calling us to surrender.
"When they saw we were not going
to surrender, they fired a volley point
blank at us. and at the shortest range.
This was fearuflly destructive, and
only a few of my little squad were left.
“Weightman and Marshall, together
with others of the Seventeenth, were
captured here, one with thirteen
wounds and the other With nine. We
found the guns again remanned and in
position across the valley, and after
we had charged through them from
the rear they opened fire on us again,
as well as the Infantry.
“We made the best of our way up
the valley, after I had ordered the men
to separate. We were the last squad to
return, and the only squad that had
rallied through the guns.”
Served In the Clvnl War,
So far Morley’s story.
He had formed his men, and re
charged through the guns, and yet,
when he applied for a Victoria Cross,
it was denied him.
Morley subsequently came to the
United States, and saw service in the
Civil War.
As to the actual blunder ot Balaclava
th* blame is fixed upon the Earl of
Lucan in correspondence which passed
between Field Marshal Lord Raglan
and the Duke of Newcastle, English
Secretary tor JVa
Lord Raglan says: “Not only did
the lieutenant general (Lord Lucan)
misconceive the written Instructions
that we sent to him; but there was
nothing in that instruction which call
ed upon him to attack at all hazards,
or to undertake the operation which
led to such a brilliant displaj#of gal
lantry on the part of the Light Brigade,
and, unhappily, at the s‘ame time oc
casioned such lamentable casualties in
every regiment composing it.”
Moriey, in an account published in
a pamphlet, charged Lucan with de
liberately lying in stating to Lord
Cardigan that the Light Brigade had
been ordered to charge by the com
mander-in-chief.
Some of Them Flogged.
Many of the men, after the terrible
Balaclava affair, swore that they would
never serve under British officers
again, and some of them deserted.
They were not pardoned until Jubilee
year.
Some of the other men who had not
deserted were employed in other regi
ments, and for petty offenses were
actually flogged. Col. Benson, who
had some Light Brigade men under
him, flogged three at once at Ismid,
in the Crimea. An eyewitness said:
“I saw Benson flog three men at
Ismid. These men had ridden in the
charge of the '600.’ One of them had
seventefen wouhds on his back, all
bleeding, through the lashes of the cat
o-mine tails. I saw tears running
down their cheeks.”
. Honor the Light Brigade; honor the
charge they made; Noble six hundred!
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