HEROIC CONDUCT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2088, 1 December 1879, Page 3

HEROIC CONDUCT.

, ''Nipier feeprds in his bifldry of the fhat 1 at' the desperate battleuoft the.i iCoa, 5 in! (Spain,iatt->lBlO, Maj[pr|iMßgO|d Jed; four r epmpanie;s of his, the masses [ot ;the enemy,''to. .save ’a, wing, ot the 's2hd, ! ‘who''would otherwise have been cut off from the bridge across which they were obliged to retreat. Through fa gap hi some rocks whiehmuSt be h’on vtO: command ithe ground' and defend the passage,) Jiyp,, ,m;uslvets :,yrerei ;ppinte,d : , Wjhose contents au;aitc|d the first British soldiei* wlio 'should, attempt to ascend by’that why. ensign of tbefegittlent'fdtihd ’ hiniSelf'in the position .which -made' it ; his diityto tread this .pathway oh death;, .Nothing! (flinching .hp,,„wcnt ,on, but jnstpat: the-i moment jwhen, tjie jmsh was to he made. a.ypung 'lrish, sergeant, Robert MtQuade,,gently ’pulled' ‘the officer 1 back, saying, “’You are too young, sir, to be killed,” and stepping' : fofward received the contents of the two muskets,-and- fell dead', pierced' ihypboth balls. That young officer, then 16, became General Sir Georgp., Ifrown,,- who ,commanded the Light’ ißvisioh of the army in the Crimea'., ’ Sergeant Robert M‘Quadc wgs .0n1y.2)1,!'; iNo marble records this royal munificence of costliest devotion.