£1,050 FOR A TRUMPET:
The trumpet on which the order for the charge of the Light Brigade was sounded at Balaclava has just been put up for auction, and after £1 ,050 had been bid for it it was withdrawn.
The trumpet was used by Trumpeter Brittain, of the Seventeenth Lancers, who was attached to Lord Cardigan and who received a wound during the charge, from which he died in the hospital at Scutari. There is a hole in the bell of the trumpet, which was made by a Cossack as he rode past Brittain.
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Lake County Press, Issue 2136, 20 September 1906, Page 7
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