SELF-SACRIFICE.
A tale of almost unequalled selfsacrifice comes home from the Transvaal. Dr London, one of the Army Medical Department, was wounded on the Majnba Mountain on the day when Sir George Colley was killed. The bullet struck his spine, and paralysed his lower limbs. Knowing he must die, he called to the orderlies near him and caused himself to be propped up against a boulder. There, in the very presence of death, he with his own hand forced the morphia solution into the wounded arm of Corporal Farmer, and thus, frightfully wounded and suffering most acutely, he died. The story of this gallant devotion is vouched for by the best authority.
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Patea Mail, 14 January 1882, Page 4
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112SELF-SACRIFICE. Patea Mail, 14 January 1882, Page 4
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