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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 210, 13 April 1877, Page 13

• Here is the passage in the Edinburgh Annual Register : "He bad often said that, if he was killed in battle, he wished to be buried where he fell. The body was removed at midnight to the citadel of Corunna. A gTave was dug for him in the rampart by a party of the 9tn Regiment, the aides-du-camp attending by turns. No cotfln could be procured, and the officers of his staff wrapped the body, dressed as it was, in a military cloak and blankets, 'lhe interment was hastened ; for about eight in the morning some firing was heard, and the officers feared that, if a serious attack were made tiiey should be ordered away, and not suffered to pay Lini their last duty. The officers of his family bore him to the grave ; the funeral service was read by the chaplain ; and the corpse was covered with earth."