RRITTSH CASUALTIES.
Officials returns have been supplied by the War Office concerning the losses suffered by Sir George White's army in Natal." During the fighting at Nicholson's Nek near Ladysmith, on Monday, the column under Lieutenant-Colonel Carleton, which eventually surrendered lost heavily. The first Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment had three officers wounded and nineteen captured. Thirty of the rank and file were killed fifty-three were wounded, and three hundred and thirty were captured. The Second Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers had ten men killed and forty-one wounded. Five hundred, in addition, are missing, and not been reported. The total casualties, captured and missing, during the campaign—excluding the missing Royal Irish Fusiliers— are— Officers, 153 ; . men, 1617.
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Manawatu Herald, 7 November 1899, Page 2
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118RRITTSH CASUALTIES. Manawatu Herald, 7 November 1899, Page 2
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