The Daily Mail (London, England), November 23rd, 2004
Byline: JAMES BLACK QUESTION I've heard different claims, so who was the bugler who sounded the Charge of the Light Brigade? I PUT forward my great-great grandfather, Martin Leonard Lanfried (or Landfrey), regimental number 986, of the 17th Lancers, who rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854. He was wounded and his horse killed. On his return to Britain, he was presented to Queen Victoria. There is evidence to bolster his disputed claim to be the bugler who sounded the charge. The most remarkable is an original Edison wax cylinder recording made of him in 1890 giving a brief intr...
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