LOOKED ON AT BALACLAVA
DURING FAMOI'S CHARGE. (By ' Association.) ■CliriEtohurolij Juno 20. ■An old .resident* .or Banks Peninsula passed a way on Wednesday 'mot nine m tho poison of Mr. J. M. Wight, of lialpleri Street. Akaroa. Ho was. born at Cowos,. in the I do.: of. Wight, in ,1834* oiid was brought iin t<» a seafaring life. Embarking on a sailmg craft ns a- young boy. bo {ravelled in ncaily every part of the. glote. He was n sailor 011 board one of the ships which . traiir-ported •troops to the Crimean: AVarj-and .actually witnessed the famous Balaclava charge* 110 and his shipmates were given '.permission by their captain to climb the heights close byj and. watch the engagement, end be saw tlio farfamed charge of the .Light. Brigade. He was. also 011 board one of the transports, which carried' troops to India at the time of the: Mutiny in. 1857:. How long he was in New Zealand,is not .known.', but ho saw th* notorious "Bully"' Havos in Auckland iii 1869.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 4
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171LOOKED ON AT BALACLAVA Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 4
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