![]() ![]() ![]() Of the Brigade only 195 men were still with horses.ĭunn was killed in 1868 in unusual circumstances during a hunting trip at Senafe in what is now Eritrea. The later tally showed 118 British killed, 127 wounded, and about 60 taken prisoner. While they temporarily forced the artillerymen from their guns, as they withdrew the Russians returned and fired against the retreating force. Surely realizing the futility and probable mistake in the orders, the cavalry nonetheless charged and did in fact reach the Russian artillery after a mile long ride up the valley against withering enfilading fire as well as directly from the front. The Light Cavalry was supposed to harry a retreating Russian battery, a task well-suited for them with their lances and swords, but due to miscommunication, the Brigade was instead sent against a completely different and well-prepared battery in a full frontal charge at the end of a long well-defended valley. The charge itself was a complete blunder. He was also the only officer to be so recognized for actions at the Battle of Balaklava. Rushing over he skewered the enemy with his extra-long sword saving Pte Levettĭunn made it back safely but is reported to have wept when he realized how many had been lost.įor his courage, Lt Dunn became the first Canadian and indeed was among of the very first in the British military, to receive the Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth’s highest award “for Valour”. Now on foot he noticed one of his Privates, Harvey Levett in danger of being cut down by another Russian. Dunn rushed back, cut them down, and then lifted the sergeant onto his own horse, swatted it on the rump to send it back to British lines. However, forced to retreat under withering fire, Dunn noticed his sergeant struggling with his severely wounded horse whom three Russians had singled out as a straggler. They charged up the valley and Dunn repeatedly led his troops against the guns. At 6 ft 3in tall, he was much taller than average for the time and indeed had Wilkinson Swords fashion him a sabre several inches longer than regulation issue.Ĭommading F troop at the time, he was among the 630 entering into a long heavily defended valley with a 12 gun battery at the end.įirst Canadian awarded the highest honour for valour, the Victoria Cross Alexander Roberts Dunn, was a Lieutenant in the 11 th Hussars making the charge against Russian forces at Balaclava on October 25, 1854.ĭunn typified the dashing cavalry officer of the time. Alexander Roberts Dunn, First Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross, for his courage at the Battle of Balaklava, Oct 25 1954., the only officer to receive the honour It is a most famous poem, written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson to commemorate in true Victorian fashion what was in fact a catastrophic blunder as noted in the second verse Portrait of Lt. “Forward, the Light Brigade! “Charge for the guns!” he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. The blade is also etched with the crowned VR cypher, a Light Infantry. This thread discusses when W-S bought UFI.Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. WTB: Begging for Light Brigades Post by churchilllafemme Tue 5:34 pm This morning I had the closest, smoothest shave I've ever had in my life, with a sample Wilkinson Light Brigade sent to me by another forum member. An 1827 Pattern Rifle Brigade Officers Sword made by Henry Wilkinson, pre 1854. Here is an NLRB case about the changes: UFI RAZOR BLADES v. I think that they were not making special blades for the U.S., but just packaging them and putting legal advertising copy on the wrappers that was different than the UK market where W-S had much more market share.Īround 1976, W-S bought a small blade manufacturer in NY/NJ called UFI and shut down UFI´s double edge production and started repacking UK blades themselves in the US rather than using Colgate Palmolive. Wilkinson later bought a small blade manufacturer and did its own packaging through them in the U.S.īlades were often shipped in bulk to the U.S. See the snippet view of the first article in this Google Book search result. The Mountainside NJ address was part of Colgate Palmolive. In 1970, Colgate Palmolive assumed marketing and distribution responsibility for Wilkinson Sword in the US for a period of time. From an older thread: Vintage Wilkinson Blades ![]()
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