LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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ACCOUNTS OF THE CHARGE

Bibliographies

John Barham (ch. on Balaclava)

E.H. Nolan 1857 Illustrated History of the War against Russia London, -James & Virtue DOWNLOAD

Cecil Woodham Smith 1953 The Reason Why Constable

Donald Thomas 1974 Charge! Hurrah! Hurrah!: A Life of Cardigan of Balaclava Routledge & Keegan Paul Ltd

Saul David 1997 The Homicidal Earl: The Life of Lord Cardigan Little Brown & Co.

Anthony Dawson 2014 Letters from the Light Brigade Pen & Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley. [Link to Pen & Sword Books]

H. Evelyn Wood 1895 The Crimea in 1854 and 1894, Chapman & Hall Ltd, London

Plus ebook at archive.org DOWNLOAD

Lord George Paget, ed. C.S. Paget 1881 The Light Cavalry Brigade in the Crimea, John Murray, London

Mark Adkin 1996 The Charge - Pimlico 2000

James W. Bancroft 2011 Echelon: The Light Brigade Action at Balaclava: a New Perspective Spellmount, The History Press

John Sweetman 1990 Balaklava 1854 Osprey Publishing. [Also available to buy as a Google ebook through the link]

George Loy Smith 1987 A Victorian RSM: from India to the Crimea D.J. Costello

Albert Seaton 1977 The Crimean War: A Russian Chronicle B.T. Batsford Ltd

Ian Fletcher & Natalia Ischenko 2004 The Crimean War: A Clash of Empires Spellmount, The History Press

Thomas Morley 1892 The Cause of the Charge at Balaclava [Link to ebook at Project Gutenberg] DOWNLOAD

Sergeant Alfred Mitchell 1885 Recollections of One of the Light Brigade N. Ginder, Canterbury transc. & annot. L. W. Crider & G. Fisher 2009 SP31 Recollections of the Light Brigade by Albert Mitchell CWRS, Lulu.com

Wightman Pte. J.W. May 1892 One of the Six Hundred on the Balaclava Charge Nineteenth Century Magazine [Link to cosmobooks.co.uk]

Ron McGuigan 2001 Into Battle!: British Orders of Battle for the Crimean War 1854-56 - Withycut House

Alistair Massie 2004 The National Army Museum Book of the Crimean War - The Untold Stories Sidgwick & Jackson

Léon Guérin 1859 Histoire de la Dernière Guerre de Russie - Dufour Mulat & Boulanger DOWNLOAD

Baron de Bazancourt 1857 L'Expédition de Crimée - Librairie d'Amyot

Lt. Col. A. Sterling 1895 The Highland Brigade in the Crimea John MacQueen, London

E.E.P. Tisdall 1963 Mrs Duberly's Campaigns: An Englishwoman's Experiences in the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny Rand McNally & Co. USA

4th Light Dragoons

Accounts - 4th Light Dragoons - unformatted texts sent to Wendy

Terry Brighton:

Farquharson, Robert (Private), Reminiscence: of Crimean Campaigning And Russian Imprisonment, privately printed, Glasgow, 1882.

[PB: CHECK against the versions published in the NEWCASTLE COURANT (in hand), which may be a little longer and more detailed?]

Grigg, Joseph (Private), his account in the collection, Told From The Ranks, edited by Milton Small, Melrose, London, I897

Joliffe, Hedworth (Lieutenant), letters, National Army Museum, London

Paget, Lord George (Lieutenant Colonel, commanding officer), Crimean journal - The Light Cavalry Brigade In The Crimea, Murray, London, 1881

Portal, Robert (Captain), Letters From The Crimea, privately printed, 1856

Roy Dutton pdfs:

Memoirs published as books

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8th Hussars

Terry Brighton:

Anonymous (Private), 'The Charge of the Light Brigade by one who was in it', United Services Journal, April 1856. Although anonymous, this man was known to and vouched for by the editor of the highly respected United Services Journal.

[PB AKA THE CHARGE OF THE BRITISH CAVALRY AT BALAKLAVA. By One Who Was There United Services Journal, No. 329, APRIL, 1856. IN ACCOUNTS DB.]

Doyle, John (Private), A Descriptive Account Of The Famous Charge Of The Light Brigade at Balaclava, privately printed, Manchester, 1877

Seager, Edward (Lieutenant), letter, National Army Museum, London 11th Hussars

Pennington, William (Private), Left of Six Hundred, privately printed, London, 1887; Sea, Camp and Stage, privately printed, Bristol, 1906

Smith, George Loy (Troop Sergeant Major), A Victorian RSM: From India to the Crimea, D. J. Costello, Tunbridge Wells, 1987, from his original diaries [transcribed and edited by?]

Smith, George Loy 1987 A Victorian RSM: from India to the Crimea D.J. Costello

Memoirs published as books

Letters

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Interviews

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Roy Dutton pdfs:

11th Hussars

Terry Brighton:

[TB has nothing from 11th?]

Memoirs published as books

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Roy Dutton pdfs:

13th Light Dragoons

Terry Brighton:

Mitchell, Albert (Private), Recollections Of One Of The Light Brigade, privately printed, Tunbridge Wells, 1884

Mitchell, Sergeant Alfred 1885 Recollections of One of the Light Brigade N. Ginder, Canterbury transc. & annot. L. W. Crider & G. Fisher 2009 SP31 Recollections of the Light Brigade by Albert Mitchell CWRS, Lulu.com

Tremayne, Arthur (Captain), letters, National Army Museum, London

Other:

Powell, Harry, Late 13th Light Dragoons, Recollections of a Young Soldier During the Crimean War [pub details?]

Memoirs published as books

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Roy Dutton pdfs

17th Lancers

Terry Brighton:

Butler, William (Private), A Descriptive Account Of The Famous Charge Of The Light Brigade, privately printed, Preston, c. 1890

Morley, Thomas (Corporal), The Man Of The Hour, privately printed, 1892; The Cause Of The Charge Of Balaclava, privately printed, Nottingham, 1899

Morley, Thomas 1892 The Cause of the Charge at Balaclava [Link to ebook at Project Gutenberg] DOWNLOAD

Nunnerley, James lkin (Corporal), Short Sketch Of The 17th Lancers And Life Of Sergeant-Major J.I. Nunnerley, privately printed, Liverpool, 1884

Wightman, James (Private), 'One Of The Six Hundred', Nineteenth Century Magazine, May 1892

Wightman Pte. J.W. May 1892 One of the Six Hundred on the Balaclava Charge Nineteenth Century Magazine [Link to cosmobooks.co.uk]

Wombwell, George (Cornet), letters, The Queen's Royal Lancers Museum

Memoirs published as books

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Accounts of Observers

Terry Brighton:

All of these men (and the indomitable Fanny Duberly) watched the charge either from Lord Raglan's position on the Sapoune Heights or from the valley itself. Several, but particularly Alexander Kinglake, interviewed survivors after the charge. Both Lucan and Cardigan wrote lengthy accounts specifically for use by Kinglake. Blunt, Sir John (Lord Lucan's interpreter), personal papers, National Army Museum, London

Calthorpe, Somerset (Lieutenant, ADC to Lord Raglan), Letters from Headquarters, Murray, London, [856

Cattell, William (Assistant Surgeon, attached 5th Dragoon Guards), unpublished autobiography, National Army Museum, London

Clifford, Henry (Captain, Ist Rifle Brigade), Letters and Sketches from the Crimea, Michael Joseph, London, 1956

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Duberly, Fanny (wife of Captain Duberly, 8th Hussars), Journal Kept During The Russian War, Longman, 1856

ADD NEW EDITION Duberly, Fanny (wife of Captain Duberly, 8th Hussars), Journal Kept During The Russian War, Longman, 1856

Ewart,]. A. (Captain, ADC to Lord Raglan), The Story of a Soldier's Life, Sampson Low, London, 1881

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Fisher-Rowe, Edward (Comet, 4th Dragoon Guards), Letters written during the Crimean War, R. D. Stedman, Godalming, 1907

Forrest, William (Major, 4th Dragoon Guards), letters, National Army Museum, London

Godman, Richard Temple (Lieutenant, 5th Dragoon Guards), The Fields of War, letters edited by Philip Warner, Murray, London, 1977

Kinglake, Alexander (travelling gentleman and historian), The Invasion qf the Crimea, William Blackwood and Sons, London, eight volumes, 1863-87

Raglan, Lord (commander-in-chief of the amiy), papers, National Army Museum, London

Russell, William (war correspondent of The Times), The British Expedition to the Crimea, Routledge and Sons, London, 1858;

Russell, William, The Great War with Russia, Routledge and Sons, London, 1867

Strangways, Fox (Lieutenant, Royal Horse Artillery), chapter on Balaklava in From Coruna [sp?] to Sevastopol by Colonel F. Whinyates, W. H. Allen and Co., London, 1884

Walker, Beauchamp (Captain, ADC to Lord Lucan), Days of a Soldier's Life, Chapman and Hall, London, 1894

Fake accounts of the Charge

O'Day

Accounts of the Charge in fiction

Terry Brighton:

Secondary Sources

Among the many secondary accounts of the Crimean War, these have made a substantial contribution to the study of the charge of the Light Brigade.

Adkin, Mark, The Charge, Leo Cooper. London. 1996

Anglesey. Marquess of. History of the British Cavalry, Volume 2. Leo Cooper. London. 1975

Barker. A. j. The Vainglorious War, Weidenfcld and Nicolson. London, 1970

Harris. Stephen. British Military Intelligent: In The Crimean War, Frank Cass. London. 1999

Hibbert, Christopher, The Destruction of Lord Raglan. Longman, London. 1961

Lummis, Canon W. M.. and Wynn. K. G., Honour the Light Brigade, Hayward 8: Son, London. I973

Mollo, John and Mollo. Boris, Into The Valley Of Death. Windrow B: Greene. London, 1991

Moyse-Bartlett, Lieutenant Colonel H.. Louis Edward Nolan and his Influence on the British Cavalry. Leo Cooper. London, 1971

Royle, Trevor. Crimea. Little, Brown and Company. London. I999

Seaton. Albert. The Crimean War, 13. T. Bansford. London. I977

War Correspondent. quarterly journal of the Crimean War Research Society

Warner, Philip. The Crimean War. Arthur Barker. London. 1972

Whinyates, Colonel F.. From Comm [?] to Sebastopol. W. H. Allen and Co., London. 1884

Woodham-Smith. Cecil, The Reason Why. Constable. London, 195 3