Crippled for Life.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1914, Page 5

Crippled for Life.

I N BRITISH EAST AFRICA.

GALLANTRY AND DEVOTION. (By Electric Telegraph—loptright] [United Press Association.] London, March 8. Advices from Naibori give a stirring narrative of heroism and pluck in a remote district to the south-east of Lake Rudolf. Lieutenant Lloyd-Jones, in command of the Loiyangurana station, six weeks’ march from Nairobi, started with Rittermaster, a political officer, and 2-3 of the King’s African Rifles, a score of camels, and a dozen Somali constables, in search of Abyssinian elephant raiders. They discovered the latter strongly stockaded in unknown numbers. Lieutenant Lloyd-Jones advanced quickly with 13 rifles, hoping to rush the only entrance to the zareba. The robbers tailing to respond to a promise that their lives would be spared if they surrendered, the bugle sounded forward. The bugler was hit, then a soldier was killed. Finally Lloyd-Jones was shot through both logs. The remaining 12 soldiers retreated, leaving the two white officers and three orderlies at the raiders’ mercy, The orderlies offered to carry oft Lloyd-Jones, but the latter bade them rush the gate. This they achieved, with great gallantry, killing ail inside the zareba. Lieutenant Lloyd-Jones was suffering terrible pain and delirium, and owing to the inadequate supply of anaesthetics, was threatened with lockjaw, but through the devotion ol two Abyssinian orderlies, he was carried on a stretcher for 43 days, a distance of 500 miles to the nearest medical station. He is now recovering at the Nairobi hospital, but will he crippled for life 1 .