4 1 1 APPENDIX. ' the 32J Regiment* — I should suppose of some distinc- ' tion, as they wore Wellington hoots, pulled high up over
- their trousers, and grand-looking helmets, and had kits
' which were beautiful, and which my men eagerly put on ; ' there was not one of them who would not have made a
- front rank for me. One of the men said they had been
' marched from Moscow, through Odessa, here. . . . ' There was an unlucky check in the 23d, which caused a ' similar retrograde in their supporters, the Fusilier Guards, ' which cost an enormity of lives in both regiments. / ' never stopped until tee drove our birds clean off the ground, ' having commenced with them after emerging from the
- deep banks of the river, within fifteen yards of their
- skirmishers.'
Shortly afterwards. Colonel Yea wrote to his sister, !^^rs Cholmley Bering : —
- Jeffries being ordered home suddenly, I take the oppor-
- tunity of sending you, to take care of, a helmet ornament
' belonging to one of the regiments (Kussian) to which my ' regiment was opposed at Alma. It was the sharpshooters ' belonging to that regiment, which I found within fifteen ' yards when I rode up the bank out of the river. We — that ' is, the 1th — icere solely engaged against this regiment ' infhoui helj), and a prettg thrashiitg toe gave them.' Colonel Aldworth writes the following letter to Sir Thomas Troubridge : — 'J/«2/3, 1863. ' My dear Sir Thomas, — I write in reply to your in- ' quiry as to what occurred on the right of the 7th Royal
- Fusiliers at the battle of the Alma, after crossing the
' river.
- I was, as you know, in command of the right company
' of the regiment, and can confidently state that the right
- Two Ijattalions of the Kazan corps. Their accoutrcinents were
marked ' 32<1.'
