"Death of a Crimean Veteran," Inverness Courier, Sept. 17, 1900, p. 3f. Mr William Barker, one of the few survivors of the famous charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, died in his native town, Leighton Buzzard, on Tuesday, aged 81 years. During the Cnmean War he was sergeant-major in the 17th Lancers, and on the occasion of the historic charge he saw every officer of his troop killed or wounded. The command of the troop then devolved on him, and, whilst leading his men against the enemy, his horse was shot under him, and falling on its side crushed its rider's left knee and ankle. Still he mounted another horse and resumed the command. After leaving the army with a pension in 1861 he joined the Coast Guard Service in Lincolnshire, finally retiring in 1870.