GENERAL SIR H. SMITHDORRIEN
At a reeniituig meeting at Hackney, Sir 'Evelyn Wood told a good story of Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, in command of the 3rd Army Corps in the fighting line in Fraiice:— . • , "In 1882 I was loft twelve miles out*} side Alexandria with sis battalions to cover a frontage of over five miles, which in the previous week had been; penetrated by the enemy. I sent an> order into Alexandria for a smart subal- J tern, who was to go to the Khedive's/ stable and all the saddliers' shops and*, produce in one day sonio' mounted in- \ fantry. Smith-Domeu received the or-f der at 1.30 p.m., and at-'6.30, with 81 ! f horses, three mules, and a donkey,, carrying Perbyshire men, the. Sherwood Foresters, few of whom had ridden be-, fore, he passed me at.Razlah, went out?' into the desert, engaged an Egyptian outpost,, killed its commander, audi;, never let thorn inside our. line or- out-' posts again." , , . .~' .■■■;• .-:.;: ■ I
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2329, 10 December 1914, Page 5
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160GENERAL SIR H. SMITHDORRIEN Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2329, 10 December 1914, Page 5
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