Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — BUGLER AT BALAKLAVA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BUGLER AT BALAKLAVA.

Death of the Man TTho Sounded the Charge for the Immortal Six Hundred. The man who sounded the bugle for the immortal charge at Balaklava recently passed away In England. His name was Henry Joy, and he joined the band of the Seventeenth Lancers when a youth. Ho served in the same regiment twentyeight years. On the outbreak of the Russian war he sailed with his regiment for the Crimea, and was pres-

ent at the battles of the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerinann, and Sebastopol. General the Earl of Lucan, who commanded tbe cavalry brigade in the Crimea, stated in a testimonial that Trumpet Major Joy was his trumpeter on the day of Balaklava, October 25, 1854, and Sir George Wombwell, who was present at Balaklava, says in a letter to the family: “1 heard him sound the Balaklava charge.” The bugle Is in possession of the family at the piesent time. Joy had two horses shot under him in the charge of the Light Brigade, and he came back out of the fight on a Russian horse. He was slightly wounded in the heel during the action.

HENRY JOY, THE BUGLER OF BALAKLAVA.