A First Experience of War.

Manawatu Herald, 28 June 1898, Page 3

A First Experience of War.

Mr Villiers relates the following: — " The tragedy of war so far as I am concerned has been on the scale of armies, rarely in respect of individuals except in the awful business of that march on Khartoum, when Cameron, of the ' Standard,' and St. Leger Herbert, of the • Morning Post.' lost their lives. Poor Herbert was shot by my Bide. I was nearly drowned in the Kile, and I suppose I was lucky not to gbt potted in the square of Tamai. But I believe my first experience of war is the one fcbat will live the longest in my memory. It was during the Servian campaign Forbes was speaking of. I was marching with the Servians. Some shells were bursting in the scrub ahead of us ; I was watching them. Then a shell burst in the pines close to us. One of the trees was blown to bits, and the hum of it was like wild music. This made me wonder a little. Presently the Servian battery limbered up and began to retire. While I was watching this operation a body of Servian infantry, who had been lying under cover of the scrub in front, rushed past me in more or less disorder. As they made for the road where the guns were disappearing a shell burst in the midst of them. The next moment I realised all the horrors of the situation ; I knew what war was for the first, time. Haifa dozen poor fellows lay around me literally torn to pieces. It was an awful sight. I tried to steady myself, and I did ; for »fter all this was part of the tragic drama I had come out to illustrate. I drew my sketch-book from my belt and made my first war picture !"

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