THE DUBLIN PUSILLERS AT COLENSO.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6, 8 February 1900, Page 20

THE DUBLIN PUSILLERS AT COLENSO.

The special correspondent of the Otago Daily Times in Natal writing of the battle of Colenso says that the official casualty list contained about 1100 names. The killed numbered five officers and about MO men. The wounded numbered 3f> officers and G34 men. The prisoners number 21 officers and 'Ml men. The Dublin Fusiliers suffered severely from shell fire. They were ordered to hold the river banks and cover the advance of the main column. A wilhuiiiig /lie wad nc-nl uiuoii^ them, but they held on until ordered to retire, after dearly winning the position. During the retiring movement many acU of heioisiu vvuic pel funned. Piivato Dowling wns discovered wounded by Sergeant Sheridan, who carried him half a mile out of danger. Lance-corporal Farrall went back und.'r the murderous fire and made two trips, and brought two wounded men, and that not before dvt ssing their wounds. Major Butterworth \va« here, ther* 1 , and everywhere among his wounded comrades, the Dublin?. The ho'test shell fire did not deter him from being where duty called. The men speak in the highest terms of his untiring efforts to the wounded.