Portrait of Captain Toosey Williams,
Who died in the Crimea 1854, and was buried at Scutari.
"'I cannot attempt to describe to you the scene that ensued—balls, shells, and rockets whizzing about our ears. The men on the right and left of me were both killed on the spot. We hacked our way out of it as well as we could, but were obliged to leave the guns. Colonel Yorke had his leg broken, and all the officers in the front rank were wounded. The Heavy Brigade have not lost many men; but, sad to tell, out of about 600 of the Light Brigade that went into the field, only 400 came out; but this is nothing to what the enemy suffered.'"
[CHAPTER VI.]
The following is here set up in type direct from the handwriting of a retired officer of the Greys, giving his own Crimean recollections. He is modest of his name appearing; and at first intended that I should write my own account, after listening to his remarks; but I am glad to say that I induced him to make his own record, and I have even ignored his request that I would "edit" his writing.
"War in Europe had ceased for 40 years, when in the reign of Queen Victoria peace was broken, and troops from the United Kingdom were being sent out to concentrate eventually in Turkey at the call of that Power in its resistance to Russian aggression.
"The Greys were not included at first when the expedition started, though cavalry (Heavy and Light) supplied regiments for the force concentrated at Varna under Lord Raglan the commander-in-chief of the British Army allied to the French in the joint expedition.