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Added 29.10.2017

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Charles Richard Harrington

"A Lay of Balaclava Fray. 25th October 1854"

(inscribed to the memory of the late Surgeon-Major Lancelot Armstrong, one of the Six Hundred at Balaclava), (1907).




On Balaclava's famed field,

Where roared the Russian cannonade,

Defiant flashed six hundred swords

When charged the Light Brigade.

To be transcribed...

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