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Best remembered for a remarkable early sound recording, this surviving bugler of the Charge of the Light Brigade offers a direct echo of one of the 19th century’s most famous battles. His brief recorded performance feels less like a book and more like a piece of living history.
Kenneth Landfrey is credited by Project Gutenberg as the performer of Charge of the Light Brigade, a short historical recording rather than a conventional written work. The archive notes identify him as a bugler in the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War, and say the recording was made in London on August 2, 1890.
According to the same archival description, he re-sounded the charge on a trumpet said to have been used at the Battle of Waterloo. That gives his work an unusual place in audiobook and sound history: it preserves not just a voice and a performance, but a vivid ceremonial link between two famous battles.
Very little biographical detail is clearly confirmed in the sources found here, so it is safest to remember him through that recording itself — a rare surviving human connection to the Charge of the Light Brigade and to the earliest years of recorded sound.