Heroic Conduct of Private Bancroft at Inkerman by William Holmes Sullivan (PC)

NBP0412PC. Heroic Conduct of Private Bancroft at Inkermanby William Holmes Sullivan

"As for Bancroft, he had not been quelled; for although as we saw, he staggered back a few paces when greviously wounded by a second assailant, he still kept his eye on the man, and presently shot him dead. His third assailant he killed by running him through. A fourth and fifth assailant then set upon Bancroft at the same moment; and, one of them bayoneting him in the right side, he fell; but the next moment he was again on his feet and driving his bayonet through one of the two last assailants. The Russian thus pierced fell to the ground, but without being killed or subdued ; and by clutching, it seems, at Bancroft's legs he strove to hamper him in his hand-to-hand struggle with the other assailant. Bancroft fighting for his life with one upstanding antagonist, and clutched at the same time round his legs by the one who had fallen-could only repress the fierce energy of the man on the ground by stunning him with kicks in the head." - From 'The Invasion of the Crimea' by Alexander William Kinglake

Collectors postcard - first edition of 90 cards.

Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)