£1,050 FOR A TRUMPET.
. —4The truiApet 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Light Brigade was sounded at Balaclava has just been put up for auction, and after £1,050 had been bid for it it was withdrawn.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 tho trumpet, which was made by a Cossack as he rode past Brittain.
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 2
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94£1,050 FOR A TRUMPET. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 2
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