ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 33, 19 January 1884, Page 7

ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY.

Mr J. William Thompson writes, in reference to a statement relative to the late Admiral Pasco having "as Signal Lieutenant at Trafalgar " — will you allow me to say that, if the implication is Hint it was he who hail to do with thf> wdl-i<no<vn '• Every man to <1 i hi-* Duty ' sii»n.il, the paragraph U not quite correct? Wh.it actually haopTiM bjforo the action was this Tlve Admiral gave the onL>r to telegraph to tho whole fleet—' Nelson expects every man to do his duty.' This order was given, not to the Signalling Lieutenant of the Victory (who had been disabled, I believe), but to my grandfather, the late George Lewis Browne, who was then serving on board the flag-ship. My father has more than once heard him relate the incident which then occurred — the young Lieutenant's suggestion, half-hint, half-r 'quest, th.it 'England' should be substituted, as that word wis in the signal code -book, and could be run at once ; whereas ' Nelson ' would require six .^ets of flags, displavpd one after the other, and Nelson's prompt and hearty reply, 'Itight Hrown" ; tint's h -tier.' This officer was p.iid-off, a- were so many others, in consequence of the \x-n being virtually ended as far as n iv?il operations were conc.ir.ied, by the victoiy of Trafalgar ; and it was whilst he was practising as a barrister on the Western Circuit that he got his promotion as Commander. Long afterwards he was given post-rank. I have once or twice SKin a ourit>u-*ly garbled ver<ion uL' this little hit of history, in which Nelson is made. to have carefully adapted his words on this occasion totherequiieiiients of writers of popular songs."