Crimea Painting

[freddie]

In 1856 Two photographers,Joseph Cundall & Robert Howlett set up at Aldershot to photograph men who had fought at Crimea, here are a couple of examples. the Piper was David Muir of the 42nd The Royal Highland Regiment (Blackwatch)
I don't think I would have liked to have faced these fellow's




try this link for more photos
http://www.btinternet.com/~james.mckay/crimea01.htm

It's just a thought, but there's all this talk of the kilt should cut the centre of the knee and some young guys like to wear their kilts longer, just below the knee these days. Take a look at the soldier on the left !

[freddie]

The best piece of fictional propaganda ever written.
The cannons to the left had been captured by the Chasseurs d'afrique, the cannons to the right were the captured Turkish guns and hardly fired at all.

The man who wrote this based it upon an article written by a correspondant who turned up just in time to see the last stragglers return from the charge which actually suceeded with relatively few casualties. The brigade took the guns that they charged spiking many of them and drove off the Russian cavalry behind said guns. The casualty figures were less than half what the infantry lost at any of the other battles.

Unfortunately everyones view is based upon a poem written 3 days after the event, based upon reports by two men (William Howard Russell and Lord Raglan) who both failed to see what happened.

Acording to the book 'The Charge' by Mark Adkin and published in 2000 'The charge lasted seven minutes; of 673 officers and men who went into action, 247 were lost, as were 497 horses.' Many of the wounded later died at Scutari hospital, including the trumpeter who sounded 'The Charge'.