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For Valour
 Gunner W. Connolly, VC
Second Troop, Bengal Horse Artillery
Jhelum, India 1857
Captain E.K. Bradbury, VC
L (Néry) Battery RHA
Battery Sergeant Major G.T. Dorrell, VC
L (Néry) Battery RHA
Sergeant D. Nelson, VC
L (Néry) Battery RHA
Battery L
Battery L of the RHA
Oh, cold grey light o' the dawn,
Woke as the mists were wreathing pale,
Woke to the moan of the shrapnel hail,
Battery L of the RHA
Sprang to their guns in the dawn.
Six guns all at the break of day,
Oh, the crash of the shells at dawn,
And out of the six guns, only one
Left for the fight ere the the fights begun,
Battery L of the RHA
Swung her round in the dawn.
They swung her clear and they blazed away,
Oh, the blood red lights o' the dawn,
Osborne, Derbyshire, brave Dorrell,
These are the heroes of Battery L,
These are the men of the RHA
Who fought that gun in the dawn.
Aye, that was a fight that was fought that day,
As the grey mists fled from the dawn,
'Til they broke up the enemy one by one,
Silenced him steadily gun by gun,
Battery L of the RHA
One lone gun in the dawn.
James L. Harvey
With acknowledgements to I Battery RHA (Bulls Troop)
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