328 THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA. chap, severely; Lieutenant Sir William Gordon also . was wounded ; and Lieutenant Chadwick, as we saw, was both wounded and taken prisoner. The sup- It is believed that the last man killed was of captain Captain Lockwood, an officer who has been already Lockwood. . r> l i • mentioned as one of the three aides-de-camp of Lord Cardigan. For some time, there was a hope that he might be alive ; and there is still some uncertainty in regard to his movements during the charge, and the way in which he met his death. At the moment when the Light Cavalry began its advance, he was probably in the perfor- mance of some duty which separated him from the other aides-de-camp.* Indeed, there is an idea that he rode to the ground where some of our battalions were halted, addressed a general whom he there found, and announcing that the Light Cavalry was about to engage in an ugly task, urged that it should be supported by infantry, + Sup- posing that he did this, and that the brigade moved forward before he returned to it, he would have been likely to gallop off in all haste down the valley to regain his place near Lord Cardigan ; but all I have learnt is, that some time after the
- See, however, the statement hy Maxse, the assistant aide-
de-camp, referred to ante at foot of p. 217, from which it ap- pears that at the beginning, and afterwards when ' three parts ' of the way down,' Lockwood was in his place. — Note to Second Edition. •f It seems to have been understood that Lockwood made the supposed request at the instance of Lord Cardigan ; but this Lord Cardigan entirely denies. The answer of the general thus appealed to was, it is said, to the effect that he had no authority.
