i84 REMINISCENCES OF 



You, who knew him so well, can imagine how we 

 feel his loss. As for myself, I can safely say that I 

 have lost as affectionate a brother as ever man was 

 blessed with. I stayed in camp about a fortnight. 

 Owing to the neglect of the commissariat officers' 

 reports, the Light Cavalry have since that advance 

 lost more than half the horses, and Lord Raglan then 

 says it is the fault of the officers for not looking after 

 things, and that the men have been selling their 

 forage to the French. You can imagine the rage of 

 Jenks and Jos when Lord Lucan told them what 

 Lord Raglan said. Left the Colonel, Jos, Jenks, 

 Percy, Jervis and my brother there, all well ; Cham- 

 berlayne too. 



" Believe me, 



" Yours very sincerely, 



" Charles W. Goad." 



" Camp, Balaklava, 12th February, 1855. 



" My Dear Captain, — 



" Knowing that it will afford you as much 

 pleasure to know, as it does me to inform you, 

 that I have received a commission in the 13th as 

 Cornet and Adjutant, I now take the liberty of 

 addressing you. First, let me return you many 

 thanks for your very great kindness in first point- 

 ing out to me the proper path to such promotion, 

 and affording me every support in the performance 

 of my duty while a non-commissioned officer in your 

 troop. 



" I am sorry to inform you that poor Mr. Irwin 



