Killed in Battle.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 134, 12 May 1885, Page 2

Killed m Battle.

The death of General Earle calls to mind how few instances thero are of British generals bning killed on the hVld of battle. Since Pioton fell iv the hour of victory at Waterloo the cases have been very few ami far h»»t\ve«n, no instance occurring until Sitbraon, when that tine soldier Major« General Sir Robert Dick, wa» > slain at the head of his division. , Soino of the old school of officer* will no doubt recall General Dick, a hero of conn Mass escapes m hid day, who had benn wounded at Maida severely before Rosetta inthe Egyptian campaign of 1801, again m the Peninsula, and a fourth tiron at Quatre Bra*, when he had command of the Black Watch. The only remaining' iostancex are those of Lieutenant-General Sir George Catheart, " blent, " to quote Kingsjake, " with a soldier's death m action " at the head of the Fourth Division on the field of Inkerman ; MajorGeneral Sir Cool«*y, shot through the head on that awful day at Majuba Hill — as yet unavenged; and Major-Genei'ul William Earle, killed m action at Dulka. That fine old horse artilleryman, Fox StrangwavH also killed at Inkerman, held only BiijSjadier-General's rank. The three general officers killed m the Indian mutiny campaign — viY, Sir Henry Lawrence, Neill, and Penny belonging* to the Indian army, as dM Sir .Hugh Wheeler, slain m his ohl age m the massacre of CWopore, Hakelock, Antfon, and Barnard — all three lamented victims to the dark days of 1857 — were not killed m action, but died of illness contracted during the campaign.