had witnessed, she replied that "those days are best forgotten." Nevertheless, she retained her adventurous spirit and complained to a nephew in 1896 that "I cannot stand dullness for long, and life gets duller and duller as one gets older." She died at Cheltenham in 1902, aged 73 and was buried with her husband in the churchyard of St Peter's church in the Leckhampton district of that town. Her husband, having risen to the rank of Lt. Colonel in the Army Pay Department, had died in 1890. In fiction Fanny Duberly was played by Jill Bennett in the 1968 film The Charge of the Light Brigade in which she was wrongly depicted as having a sexual relationship with Cardigan, played by Trevor Howard. She featured in two books about Harry Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser: Flash for Freedom! and Flashman at the Charge. In both of these, particularly the former, she is a target for Flashman's lust but he fails in his attempted seduction of her. Fraser introduces her, still Fanny Locke, as "a damned handsome eighteen with the shape of a well-developed matron." He remarks on her prettiness, fair hair and blue eyes as well as complimenting her on her riding skills: "she could ride, that girl." Flashman desires to have sex with her, opportunity allowing, and laments not being able to do so or at least to "give her tits a squeeze." Fraser has Flashman jealous of Duberly's husband, describing him in Flashman's words as a "muff" who, when on guard duty, sits outside the room "like a blasted water bailiff." Mrs Duberly is mentioned in Queen Victoria's Bomb by Ronald W. Clark (1967). The story consists of the memoirs of Professor Franklin Huxtable whose invention of an ultimate weapon in the 1850s was supposed to make warfare impossible. The bomb is trialled in a remote part of India. References Sources Barham, John. The Indomitable Duberly, 29 June 2006. Farwell, Byron. Queen Victoria’s Little Wars. New York: W. W. Norton, 1985. Warner, Philip. The Crimean War, A Reappraisal. New York: Taplinger, 1972. Mrs. Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854–1856. Edited by Christine Kelly. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Duberly, Mrs. Henry. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856, at A Celebration of Women Writers.