In 1858 Hughes was promoted to corporal, in 1863 to sergeant, and in 1871 to troop sergeant major. At the end of the war he was awarded the Crimea Medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sevastopol, and the Turkish Crimea Medal. He was also present at the Battle of Inkerman on 5 November 1854 and throughout the siege and eventual capture of Sevastopol. Returning to British lines after the charge, Hughes was put in charge of the Russian prisoners. Before we reached them, my horse was shot, and in falling on its side I got partially pinned underneath injuring my leg. We rode out at the command straight for the Russian lines. I was on duty that day from four o'clock in the morning until after the charge in the afternoon. On 25 October 1854 Hughes rode in the charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava, where his horse was killed under him, trapping his leg. He joined his regiment at Hounslow as 1506 Private Hughes, and in 1854 he sailed with them from Portsmouth to the Crimea. Hughes became a shoemaker until he joined the 13th Light Dragoons, part of the Light Brigade, at Liverpool on 1 November 1852. He was baptised at St Giles' Church, Wrexham on 5 January 1831. Hughes was born in Wrexham, Wales on 12 December 1830, one of nine children to William (a tin-plate worker) and Mary ( née Jones) Hughes. Edwin Hughes (12 December 1830 – ), nicknamed "Balaclava Ned", was a British Army soldier and the last survivor of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War of 1854–56.
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