Hoss
11-04-2008, 09:46 PM
The three-page document is believed to be one of the only eyewitness accounts by a frontliner (Charge of the Light Brigade) and is expect to fetch about £2,000 at auction.
Pte Olley, who was aged 16 at the time, recalled how he charged into battle against the Russians and was shot through the left eye.
He added: "I still rode on and fought through the lines of the enemy."
He wrote: "A little further on my horse was shot down - I caught one of the horses, which was coming back without its rider who had been shot out of his saddle.
"I turned it round facing the enemy - I mounted it and rode down to the Guns, when I was attacked by a Russian Gunner who I cut down with my sword.
"I received a severe wound on my forehead which went through the skull bone.
"The man I cut down."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3379015/First-hand-account-of-the-Charge-of-the-Light-Brigade-unearthed.html
Pte Olley, who was aged 16 at the time, recalled how he charged into battle against the Russians and was shot through the left eye.
He added: "I still rode on and fought through the lines of the enemy."
He wrote: "A little further on my horse was shot down - I caught one of the horses, which was coming back without its rider who had been shot out of his saddle.
"I turned it round facing the enemy - I mounted it and rode down to the Guns, when I was attacked by a Russian Gunner who I cut down with my sword.
"I received a severe wound on my forehead which went through the skull bone.
"The man I cut down."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3379015/First-hand-account-of-the-Charge-of-the-Light-Brigade-unearthed.html