RELICS OF GORDON.
■-• Aliothet* relic of the gallant ; -. - !ef«*nce ' N of Khartouni.wu^ much soujjlvi after; .. , and* that is the Iwiden. medals which •,G^»eral -Gordon ordered to 1 be struck :■> and distributed tt* every man, woman, r aiid, l child m t¥e; Iralea£nr>d city, m \ v token 1 of tlie, hrnvekji they had dis— played; : Several of these medals were ' iri f possession of Gordon's n>en> Viufc tbe^'w^^BO eAgerly^btfiigh^^p, not . : only hy \officers, liutby: .the : men too, ;. that they are now' afra .premium, andl at such a premiumj too, that an offer of their we|«s{ht m fifQjd fails to indue*. 'the lucky bwnere'to*part with them."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 115, 21 April 1885, Page 3
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104RELICS OF GORDON. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 115, 21 April 1885, Page 3
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