THE BALACLAVA BUGLE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9114, 13 June 1908, Page 3

THE BALACLAVA BUGLE.

On a morning in October fifty-four yeai'3 ago, on a battlefield in the •Crimea, a bugle was blown whoss ecYie3 will never ciio cut. while courage and admiration of courage are thj heritage of the British race ii\y3 a London pipa:'). On that imbruing Trumpet-Major Henry Joj, of tha 17th Lancers. Was ordered to sou id the charge which sent the Light Brigade, volleying anl tliundering, Jnto tt»e Valley ot, Death. It is a wAlt'jr for congratulation that Joy's •tru npec i 3 *o became a national j p333a3sion. At the break-up of p. private museum recently it was) bought by an unknown bidder, who' now proves to be Mr W. W. Astor, an.l who has presented the trumpet £o the Royal United Service Museum j In Whitehall. Mr Astor is Amaricanbon, but he has lived a long time in England, and became a naturalised British citizen time ago. By / liU'i thoughtful and generous act— trumpet costs a tidy sum—Mr has sat tho seal upon his citizjnship. Th 3 English p3ople will iia grateful to him, mora especially ,ai it was fearad at on time that Joy's tramoet, togetlnr with his m.'dah, would cross tho Atlantic tu enrich tha collection of some of America's many millionaires. The medals, however, are also to remain ijn this coin try, and will moose side ,fay sidj with the bugl i.i t'.i: museum .at Whitehall. / ,