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BALACLAVA POCKET WATCH
History of War
|Issue 149
This William IV silver timepiece and its owner survived the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava
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Two years after his promotion to captain in the 4th Light Dragoons, Thomas Everard Hutton rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War (1853-56). During the attack on 25 October 1854 he was hit in the right thigh by Russian fire. According to his commanding officer, Lord George Paget, Hutton exclaimed: “Low, I am wounded; what shall I do?” His squadron leader replied: “If you can sit on your horse, you had better come with us; there's no use going back now; you'll only be killed.” Hutton continued in the assault, striking down several enemy troops, before a second Russian
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