Ogden Morning Examiner | 1910-12-11 | Page 15 | One of the Immortals

ONE Of T I E IMMORTALS I Oakland Cal Dec 10 George Smith out one of the immortal six hun tutu hundred dred drell that redo lodo In the tho charge chargo of or the tie Light Brigade at tt tho the tattle battle of o Data Bala Balaklava klava Is I now nos no at the he age a C of o SI 81 seek seck seeking ing jag charity charily from the Oakland board of supervisors He lie Is asking for suf suit sufficient funds to carry him and his daughter to British soil soli In order that ho he may mar revive his 1115 claim to a pension tension from the British government Until recently Smith had earned Ills Juts living as a n wood cutter but age and an 10 old bullet wound which grew more troublesome with the tho lapse of o t f i years ears compelled compo lied mm him 10 to work That wound he had received during the war ar of or the Indian mutt mull mutiny ny fly n while white ho was rescuing his lila com corn officer Captain Hyman from froma a field where bullets were pouting pouring like a n hall ball storm Hymans leg had been carried away awn by br a it ball and ho tic was tying lying helpless when Smith ran to him and carried him to tho th breastworks For his bravery he lie was as awarded the Victoria Cross and received a personal II gift girt of 20 sovereigns from rom rota Queen Victoria Another scar Smith bears Is IE whore a gunshot grazed his head in the tho charge at This Injury kept I him in the hospital until tho the close dose of or the Crimean war but ho he had bad al at already ala ready fought ought through the brunt of o othe the campaign ha having Ing been heen In action at al and After the Indian mutiny Smith camo came lq IQ America At Warrentown Warren town N Y V Yf f Lc he trained recruits Tt for the tho Union I army arm in the civil chiI war Later ho he be became I came Caine an American citizen