Lot Essay
Towards the end of the battle of Ferozeshah, Arthur Somerset and Arthur Hardinge were riding with the 50th towards the Sikh camp when they came under heavy musket fire. 'Hardinge's horse was killed under him and Somerset fell to the ground. Running to him, Hardinge found his clothing saturated in blood. "On expressing my fears that he was dangerously wounded, he replied faintly that he would be better if I opened his coat, which I did." Hardinge and a private of the 50th carried Somerset about a 100 yards to the rear and laid him under a bush where a passing surgeon attended him. With regret the surgeon concluded that, as the wound was in the lungs, it would probably be fatal' (J. Sweetman, Raglan: From the Peninsula to the Crimea, 1993, p. 145).