eleven o'clock
Jack Archer was in deep grief , for his brother had been severely wounded , and the doctors gave no strong hopes of his life . He had been shot in the hip , as he strove to get the men of his company together , and had been carried to the rear just before the Russian advance drove the last remnants of the assailants from the salient . Jack had , with the permission of his commanding officer , gone to sit by his brother 's bedside , and to give his services generally as a nurse to the wounded . At eleven o'clock the hut was shaken by a tremendous explosion , followed a few minutes afterwards by another . Several of the wounded officers begged Jack to go to Cathcart 's Hill , to see what was doing . Jack willingly complied , and found numbers of officers and men hastening in the same direction . A lurid light hung over Sebastopol , and it was evident that something altogether unusual was taking place .