A SAD INCIDENT OF THE WAR.
(Special to Stab.)
Auckland, December 22.
Trooper Ellis Wrigley, a member of the Seventh Contingent, writing to his brother from Newcastle, on November 6tfa, records a very painful incident. “The other evening, he says, we were seated round our camp fire, when a member of the Canterbury Corps rode up, holding In his hand a Mauser rifle, which be had got from a captured Boer. As he came into the radius of light a comrade exclaimed, ‘Hallo I What have you got there’ and rising to his feet, walked over to the rooper on horseback, taking from himr the rifle, which he held extended in his hand. He then turned round with the rifle pointing in the direction of the group round the camp fire, and discharged it point-blank at the seated men. With a smothered cry Corporal Byrne, of the Canterbury Corps, fell slightly forward. We rushed to his assistance, and as we raised him he looked np and then fell back dead in our arms. The awful suddenness of the affair for a moment paralysed us, and it would have been hard to find a more wretched and unhappy lot of men than we were for that night. '
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 December 1901, Page 3
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206A SAD INCIDENT OF THE WAR. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 December 1901, Page 3
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