A CHARMED LIFE.

Evening Star, Issue 5589, 5 February 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

A CHARMED LIFE.

A trumpeter, describing the battle of Maiwand, thus relates what befel himself during the engagement:—" As I was orderly trumpeter of the fceieral commanding the fores, and cf the efficer oommacd ; ng the 3rd Light Cavalry, I had, indeed, very much to do during the fagh*. I had to take messages from one place to another, and while standing behind the guns several men were blown away by the enemy's guns; even a brigade - major and quartermaster-general right and left of me were blown away, and I was saved. We were ten persons with the commanding officer, and of us only two were saved, the commanding officer and myself ; the rest were blown up. At one time, as I was standing behind a gun, my brother came to see me. I said ' Well, what do you want?' He said 'Nothing; I came ti see you.' Ju>st as he uttered those words a bullet washed off my right moustache without any injury to my mouth. The next came jcut after the first, hitting my horse's headstall, and the horse was s*ved. Again, a minute after, another bullet tore the ekin off my horse's hock, injuring him a little; and a fourth hit the horse's feet and thigh, on account of which my horse rercained a month on sick list."