The Twickenham Museum
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James Alexander Mustard
Survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade
1830 - 1916

James Mustard in later life

Painting of the Charge of the Light Brigade by Caton Woodville

His own words

Later he described the experience:

‘All I know is that we started at a trot, then at a canter, and finally at a mad gallop in which horses and men were wedged together…It was hell. Cannon belched forth shot and shell….and I saw many a comrade fall… ,

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