“Pickett’s Lonely Charge.”
Undeb the above heading Christohurch Truth publishes the following from a letter by Lance Corporal Frank Ryan:— “A Gisborne man named Pickett kept right on by himself, and with the maddest rush I’ve ever seen went for the rocks from which we were fired on, and escaping a heavy fusillade, dropped behind the rock, while a Boer crawled away from the other side. Pickett wounded the retreating one, and shot dead a man who picked him up afterwards, dropping a third who tried to shoot him. Shortly afterwards the Second Contingent charged up under Captain Crawshaw, who worked his men splendidly, rushing one flank up under cover of volleys from the other. When level with us he ordered his men to lie down, and was immediately after shot through the hip. Our whole fire was now directed at the main position at 500 yards, and there we stayed till dark, with no order to advance—fourteen hours' under the burning suu and tbs most deadly fire we have yel wet. 1 .!
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 13, 17 January 1901, Page 2
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