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Show WENT INTO CHARGE UNARMED Crippled Officer Rode Without Weapon of Any Kind With the Immortal Immor-tal "Six Hundred." When I,ord Tredegar diet! tho other day it waa announced that only one ofllcer who took port in the chnrgft of tho light brigado wna still alive, Sir Georgo Wombvrell. I low over, it transpires that there ia another ofllcer of tho "noble six hundred" still liring, nnd his experience expe-rience of thnt famous charge ia probably prob-ably moro retnnrkublo than that of any of hia comrndea, for lie rodo through tho "volley of denth" un. nnned. Tin's ofllcer is Cnpt. I'ercy Sinith, uho, though eighty-four )eara of age, Uvea n halo and nctive life at Southampton, Englnnd. Ho rode in tho ehnrgo unnrmed bo-causo bo-causo ho did not possess n sword-arm, having lost hia right hand in a rhoot-ig rhoot-ig accident prior lo the outbreak of tho Crimean war. However, tho colonel of his regiment, Uio Thirteenth Thir-teenth husaara, accepted him for active ac-tive service, and although nil ho could do wna to lend hia men un, ho charged through tho llussinn guns nnd escaped with only a alight wound, iro had an iron guard for his maimed nrm, which had been presented to him by his brother offl. cera. but it was lost on tle mottling of tho Balaclava charge, and ho rodo without it. |