A GALLANT COLONEL.

Waikato Argus, Volume XV, Issue 6034, 3 August 1903, Page 4

A GALLANT COLONEL.

In the latest number of ' V.C.,' General Ben Viljoen describes ' The Bravest Deed I Ever Saw.' It was that of Commandant Gerfc Gravett, who rescued two of his comrades under a fierce fire of British 6hells/3nd bullets. But the ' maddest act of courage' was that of a British colonel. Thus the Genera) converses with the interviewer :—' "We were lying behind boulders high up on one side of a kopje, and the khakis were coming on the other. We saw their hats appear over the crest before they had any view even of the top of the hill, far less of us. Then came their faces, then their breasts, and we fired. The first rank sank down like a swathe of grass. But others pressed forward, the colonel leading. We fired again, the colonel reeled and fell forward, shot through the leg. But almost immediately he was up again, the wounded leg hanging horribly limp and trailing upon the ground ; he leaned upon a rifle, using it as a crutch, and so forced himself forward in jerks, calling hoarsely to his men, beckoning them on with his arm, and thus limping calmly to the very muzzles of our Mausers. It was splendid, and when he fell for the last time—well, we were all sorry.' • What was his name V I asked. • Colonel Lloyd, of the West Riding Regiment. Months after we laid a wreath of flowers on his grave, and the card bore the inscription : 'ln honour of a brave enemy.' It was an act difficult to forget.'

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