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(Rare!) Trumpeter Lanfried - The Bugle of Charge of the Light Brigade (Re-enacted in 1890)

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Another rare recording. Private Martin Leonard Lanfried (1834.8.25 ~ 1902.12.8) of 60th Rifles of British Army, re-enacts the very same bugle which he did at the charge of the Light Brigade during Crimean War, on August 2nd, 1890, at Edison House, London. The photo of Lanfried in this video is the only surviving photo of him, taken around 1885.
Lanfried made this recording for supporting the Light Brigade Relief Fund which the St.James Gazette set up earlier in that year. Colonel Charles Gouraud, a Civil War hero and Edison's representative in London at that time, made three recordings on that day, but only this survived.
In this recording Lanfried states,
"I am trumpeter Lanfried. One of the surviving trumpeters, of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. I am now going to sound a bugle, that was sounded at Waterloo, and sound the charge was sounded at Balaclava on the very same bugle, the 25th of October, 1854."

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@valeriefouladian3878 11 лет назад

My Great Grandfather was a trumpeter in the Crimean War. I'm glad I got to imagine that he might have sounded like that .

@ravenmasters2467 2 года назад

To me this is the truly amazing thing about the internet in general and youtube in particular. Its one huge, enormous time-capsule. A global repository of just about every word spoken or sung, every event, everything in mankind's history since electronic records began. Just about any song, tv commercial, comedy show, speech and so much more, that ever existed is just a few clicks away.

@TheDiomalco 13 лет назад

In the past 3 weeks I have discovered my grandfather x 3 was Francis Henry Moran who, at the age of 20, was the trumpeter signalling the Charge to begin. He joined the army aged13 and was severely wounded in the battle but recovered well from the wounds. He went on to become the Regimental Bandmaster for 16 years but died quite young at the age of 45 in 1878. It has been quite extraordinary to hear the Charge he must have played on that terrible day.

@webrarian 9 лет назад

An article in the Pall Mall Gazette in August 1890, confirms that the woman's voice we hear is that of "Miss Ferguson" who "worked the phonograph". It also clarifies that the Charge was sounded by trumpeters, but this is played by Landfried on the 1815 Waterloo BUGLE lent to Edison House by the First Life Guards. Nowhere in the article does it suggest that Landfried was the only man to sound the charge - indeed, it mentions two others, one a colonel and one in a workhouse. Landfried was working as clerk for the the firm of Hallington in Brighton. The 1891 census suggests they were drapers. When he died in 1901 he left over £1600.

@glennawalkden935 6 лет назад

My great-great grandfather George Melvin was also a bugler in the Charge

@swinderby Год назад

Billy Brittain rode alongside Lord Cardigan and sounded the actual charge. He died of his wounds in Scutari.

@AntipodeanStar 9 лет назад

Absolutely astonishing.

@georgeh5075 Год назад

For some reason I had always pictured the recording of sound as far more modern than this. But then you remember that two centuries really isn't that long at all. We will remember them.

@swinderby 12 лет назад

@swinderby Billy actually died of bedsores because of poor nursing at Florence Nightingales hospital at Scutari. His bugle was brought home to Dublin by his brother and was in our family for years. It is now in the Regimental Museum near Grantham, Lincolnshire. I have actually held the bugle and blown on it. Billy was 24 when he died. I suggest you read the book "Hell Riders" by a chap called Brighton who used to be the curator of the regimental museum. The best account yet of the famous Charge

@daveedwards7438 9 лет назад

Great to hear this again... 200 years after Waterloo ! (To the verrie day !!)

@swinderby 12 лет назад

@oldnedofthehill The father of the trumpeter was Alfred Brittain who served 35 years in the British Army as a farrier. His son Billy was the bugler who sounded the Charge. He was a young Irishman from Dublin aged 24.

@encrypter46 12 лет назад

This recording raises all my hairs. I've heard it many times on the LP "Hark! The Years" narrated by Fredric March. It's the very first and oldest recording and is followed by Florence Nightingale speaking, Thomas Edison and on and on. Great production.

@oldnedofthehill 14 лет назад

He was trumpeter in the 17th Lancers who rode in the charge. His father was bandmaster of 60th Rifles, which was an infantry regiment and not in the charge.

@obnoxiousoboe Год назад

You have to thank Pearls Before Swine for reviving interest in this recording in the late 1960s!

@Legacyrxawd 8 лет назад

@Chris Goddard: A cavalry charge would indeed have been sounded by a trumpeter, but he'd also have been carrying, and playing, a bugle on active service. For that reason, John McNeill of Dublin (who made the bugle in the National Army Museum that is said to have sounded the charge) invented a combined cavalry trumpet and bugle...

@swinderby 12 лет назад

@donno54 Yes, that is where my ancestors bugle was kept. Belvoir Castle museum is closed down now and so the bugle is kept in the nearby barracks. Terry Brighton was the curator of the museum and has written a wonderful book about the Charge told from the ordinary soldiers point of view. The book is called "Hell Riders" It's the best account of the Charge of the Light Brigade ever written.

@swinderby 14 лет назад

This was not the man who sounded the Charge of the Light Brigade. He was indeed on of a few trumpeters who rode in the Charge but the actual charge was sounded by my ancestor, William Brittain of the 17th Lancers. Billy Brittain was orderly bugler to Lord Cardigan that day and rode with him at the head of the Charge. Billy was severely wounded and died three months late at Scutari. His bugle was in the Brittain family for generations and is now in the Regimental museum near Grantham

@Tlax13 14 лет назад

thats goddamn amazing

@liten48 13 лет назад

ian amazing recording! ive seen the bugle as well, i think i held it

@juststop4340 3 года назад

0:46 is when it starts

@TheMAnimal617 3 года назад

Doubly significant what an exquisite gift to posterity really affecting.

@michaelpowell6805 3 года назад

Excellent fidelity for 1890...

@bassaw1 13 лет назад

Wow Just too much to contemplate wonderful thank you

@encrypter46 12 лет назад

I think you either need to read the description above or, if you've heard the original, you're older than dirt.

@thetriumphofthethrill2457 7 лет назад

What a marvel. A truly fortuitous moment that this window into the past was captured for posterity. It's fascinating to hear the accents, they seem to be the real British accent rather than the gratingly annoying and exaggerated ones of today.

@sean3691 2 года назад

Wow! The dead speak! 😱👊❤

@swinderby 12 лет назад

@swinderby Terry Brighton wrote "Hell Riders"

@17pazza 13 лет назад

wow

@swinderby 12 лет назад

@Isaac4498 This fellow Langfriedd was exposed as a fraud. he was in the Heavy Brigade and did NOT sound the Charge of the Light Brigade......My great, great uncle did. His name was William (Billy) Brittain and he came from Dublin. 60% of the British Army at that time were Irish. Billy was the best trumpeter in the 17th Lancers and was appointed orderly trumpeter on the fateful day. He rode alongside Lord Cardigan right up to the Russian guns. he was badly injured and died 3 months later....more.

@garywalker5766 6 лет назад

I had the honour of seeing your great, great uncle's bugle this Sunday last, at Thoresby Hall, Swinderby.

@AtheAetheling 2 года назад

No, sixty percent of the army at that time was not Irish. The famine greatly reduced Irish recruitment, but it was never any higher than forty percent at its peak in the 1830s before falling off steadily into the famine. This can be verified in any book about the army of the time, but one I suggest is Redcoat by Richard Holmes, exhaustively researched and admired. Not to doubt your claim about your great great uncle as I know nothing about that, but your history about this fact is incorrect.

@corneliusvanDB 13 лет назад

@Isaac4498 that's amazing!!! you sir, have kissed history.

@jtnelson8828 4 года назад

What are the notes?

@swinderby 12 лет назад

@TheDiomalco Sorry old chap, but your ancestor did not sound the Charge. William Brittain sounded the Charge. See comments above.

@wilfburt6641 7 месяцев назад

Im anti war, i would like a demilitarized world and i dont follow military tradition or know anything about it. But i do know of the Crimean war and the British history there. I read a lot as a child and the famous poem about the charge of the light brigade stuck with me. Now as an older British man, there is something about hearing this bugle call that really pulls at my emotions, thinking of the brave men that did what they did that day. I cant imagine the courage it would take to ride as they did.

@swinderby 12 лет назад

@swinderby See comments below!

@swinderby 12 лет назад

@MrJST87 I'm afraid this guy is not a legend but was exposed as a fraud by his fellow soldiers. He made a lot of money giving talks around the country pretending to be the bugler. he wasn't actually in the Charge. He rode with the Heavy Brigade who were kept in reserve.

@glennawalkden935 6 лет назад

My great-great grandfather George Melvin was the bugler in the Charge of the Light Brigade. He is never mentioned in any reports but I have pictures and documented proof.

@markbenjamin1703 2 года назад

Where is the bulge held now? if it's still aorund

@swinderby 2 года назад

It's in the regimental museum at Grantham.

@dabsy1 12 лет назад

This recording here is a fake. The original sounds pretty different. Here we have a voice over a rotating cylinder as one can clearly here if you are familiar with very old cylinder recordings!