A RASH ADVENTURE.
AN OFFICER KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED. (Received 2G, 1.35 a.m.) London, March 15. Lord Roberts reports that four officers rode without an escort, except by a trooper, eight miles beyond the camp on the Modder River on tbe 23rd. The Boers fired, killing the Hod. E. Lygon, of the Grenadier Guards, brother of Earl Beauchamp, and seriously wounding Lieut.-Colonel Grabble and Lieutenant Trotter, of the Grenadier?, and also Lieut.-Colonel Codrington, of the Coldstreams. (Received 26, 1.40 a.m.) London, March 25. In connection with the death of the Hon. E. Lygon and the wounding of the other officers, the Boers, in response to a handkerchief signal, said they had attended the wounded and conveyed them to a farm and cared for them all night.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 76, 26 March 1900, Page 2
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126A RASH ADVENTURE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 76, 26 March 1900, Page 2
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