LORD METHUEN'S CAPTOR
Lord Methuen, the. ex-Governor of Malta:, w-MS'a ' frequent visitor 'to the hospitals of ; fche island while they were full of sick and wounded, and one day whilst walking down a ward, stopped; to talk with a South African; who belonged to an, English infantry regiment. He had fought against us in the Boer War. "Your face seems familiar to me," saiid Lord Methuen. "I wonder where lean have seen) you beilojre?" The wounded man admitted tihe correctness of the; famous isoldiier's memory for .faces, and smilingly isuggested that,he would not like to hear of the occasion whan they last met.' Curious, Lord Methuen 1 (pressed the South Aifricap. to tiell (him, and laiughed- heartily when the man related how v he was o>ne of the rpaa vty of Boersl which had taken /the Governor '.prisoner wjhen, as he put it, he had 'beea "oil the wrong side." ■ ■ The, ■Governor tehook hainds with his former captor, and stayed 'to have a. chat with him about the old South African! d!ays;.
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13931, 9 July 1919, Page 3
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172LORD METHUEN'S CAPTOR Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13931, 9 July 1919, Page 3
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