OUR SPLENDID AFRICANS
NATIVE WHO CHARGED ENEMY ■; SINGLE-HANDED.. ; Accounts of the, splendid feats of the . native 6oldiers of tropical Africa are not usually published, but the Colonial Office has recently issued a few of them, de-, 6crlbing deeds which • havo won the special African D.C.M. •/,..-' ■ Private Helasi Sempa, Uganda Police Service Battalion, won tho medal for bravery in the defence of a small Bri-. , tish post attacked by five Europeans and 6evcnty-five native soldiers with a machine gun. Tho attack was beaten , off, and the enemy lost their machine-gun besides four Germans and fifty-five native soldiers killed. ' / A hill fort was being stormed by a body of tho Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force, and Lance-Corporal Moraa Shira was the first to work his ■way. into the position and the first to reach the snmmit. Private AmaduKanna • "charged single-handed and dispersed a party of the enemy."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3126, 3 July 1917, Page 5
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146OUR SPLENDID AFRICANS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3126, 3 July 1917, Page 5
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