x The bullets were then flying over us; we were quite close to each other. Captain Nolan, cool as a cucumber, dismounted, looks round his horse, remounts, and joins Lord Raglan. My brother Trumpeter, by name Dick Davis, rode over to me and asked me if I had had a shot; I said No, I thought they were not near enough. He told me that he had had several. I then thought it was time for me to get my pistol ready. So wrote Trumpeter Harry Powell, 13th Light Dragoons, in his recollections of the Crimean War. The impressive and rare Light Brigade Chargers campaign group of three awarded to Trumpeter R. Davis, 13th Light Dragoons, a long-lived veteran of the "Noble Six Hundred" who was additionally decorated by the French for his service during the Crimean War and features by name on many occasions in eye-witness accounts of that challenging campaign. Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Serjt. Richard Davis, 13th Lt. Dragoons.), officially impressed naming; France, Second Empire, Medaille Militaire, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, British die, unnamed as issued, all individually mounted on silver riband buckles, very fine (3)
