A BRILLIANT RECORD.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 133, 8 February 1915, Page 2

A BRILLIANT RECORD.

It was in South Africa that Padre Hill at Belmont succoured many wounded men, and often stood amid i hail cf I .diets, book i i hand, reading the sacrament lor the, dying. Another chaplain who had a brilliant recovi of service lehind hun was the Rev. Robert In iodic, who was with Lord Wdseley in Vie Egyptian War, and distinguished himself by his intre. pid conduct at El Tcb, He was also in the Nile Expedition, and was mentioned in Lord Kitchener’s despatches during tlui Dongola Expedition, rev ceiving from the hands of Queen Victoria the D.S.O.

A brilliant feat, too, was that of Chaplain Collins, of the Royal Irish fusiliers, during the Soudan campaign, when a desperate attack was made by :he Arabs on Sir John M’Neil’s Mareba So sudden was the attack that the British soldiers were scattered, but quickly forming into a number of little squares, they faced the fee in a gallant and letermined style, Chaplain Collins, standing back to back with Major Alston, doing deadly execution with his heavy revolver. Among other heroic chaplains might he mentioned the Rev. James Bellord, vho was severely wounded at Tel-el-'vebir the Rev. G. M. Gordon, who was killed in Afghanistan while at'ending to a stricken soldier on the Acid of battle, and the Rev. E. Ayrton, who during the Indian Mutiny was surprised and attacked at Chanda by t small body of rebels. Weaponless,be died his stout stick to such excellent 'impose that the enemy was kept at bay until some British soldiers rescued him from his perilous position.