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The Charge of Light Brigade boy who rode into the jaws of death and lived to tell the tale

They rode 'into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of Hell', wrote Tennyson in his poem commemorating the suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade.

Now a remarkable account from one of the soldiers involved in the carnage has surfaced to provide a graphic insight into one of the most glorious failures in British military history.

Private James Olley, who was just 16 at the time of the Crimean War charge, described how he fought on despite being shot in the eye and having his skull split by a Russian sabre as comrades fell around him.

The three-page manuscript, owned by a private collector, is expected to fetch thousands of pounds when it is auctioned tomorrow.
Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)