IN VINDICATION OF COLONEL ROBIN.
Dcnedin, May 13. Speaking in vindication of Colonel Eobin at Saturday's smoke concert Sergeant McDonald of the Second Contingent related an incident of reckless bravery on the Colonel's part. It happened at Klip River. The New Zealanders were escorting guns, and they were exposed to shell fire, which was admitted by G. Battery to be the heaviest they had ever encountered during the war. The troopers were all lying fiat on the ground, and, to oncourage them, Colonel Eobin rode up and sat on his horse in full face of the pompoms and other shell. He spoke to them words of I encouragement, and, pointing over to the | Boer trenches, jokingly taid, "How would you like to be over there ?"
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 May 1901, Page 3
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125IN VINDICATION OF COLONEL ROBIN. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 May 1901, Page 3
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