LOOKED ON AT BALACLAVA
DURING FAMOUS CHARGE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christcliurch, June 20.
Au -old resident of Banks Penin-'ula passed away on Wednesday morning in tlio purson of M,i J. M. (".\Ta.t'') Wight, of Ri'lgiuerie street, Akarra, He was 'born at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, in 1834, and was brought up to a seafaring life. Embaiking on a sailing craft as a young boy, he travelled in nearly every part of the ; Ile "iwas a sailor on board one of the ships whitfli transported.troops to the Crimean War. and actually witnessed the famous Balaclava charge. lie a.nd his shipmates were given permission by -their captain t.' climb the heights close Iby, and -watch the engagement, and he suv the far-famed c'harge of t/lie Light Brigade. He was alsfo in board one of the transports wlliich tamriad troqps to India at the time of the Indian Sfuitiny in 185". How long he was in New Zealand w not known, but he saw the notorious ''Bully" Bayivs in Auckland in iB6O.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 28, 23 June 1914, Page 8
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171LOOKED ON AT BALACLAVA Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 28, 23 June 1914, Page 8
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