ILN, 2 June 1855 p. 539:
'Mr Upton leaves for England with his wife and family in the course of the week. He is the son of Mr Upton who fortified Sebastopol. At the taking of Balaklava he remained quietly and gave himself up as a prisoner to the English. It is a purely nominal thing, as he goes about everywhere, accompanied generally by his three sweetly pretty girls. These little things, who are constantly about, dressed in round straw hats and little pink dresses, with two petdogs, put one more in mind of England and home than anything I have
seen out here. A rather amusing anecdote is told of them. They were the other day out for a walk, when a soldier, who did not know them, met them; in astonishment at seeing three prettily dressed English-looking children, he stopped and asked them who they were, when the eldest replied, with the greatest gravity, 'Please, sir, we're prisoners.' (Letter from Camp May 10)
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