CATHOLIC OFFICERS WHO HAVE FALLEN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 48, 29 November 1900, Page 5

CATHOLIC OFFICERS WHO HAVE FALLEN.

Beaumont College has supplied another name — her second— to the roll-call of officers killed in South Africa. Lieutenant John Lawrence Lawlor, of the 6th Inniskillin^ Dragoons, has died of wounds received in the recent fighting on the way to Lydenburg, thus gloriously closing a brief military career of only four years. As the conflict draws near to its desired close (says the London Tablet), the record of death may be hoped to be well-nigh complete. By these statistics we may know that just over a dozen Catholic officers have fallen, including officers in the Irregulars, such as Captains Knapp and Petre, and members of the Army Medical Service— not forgetting the Catholic chaplain whom fever slew. These numbers give us a rate of about 2 per cent, of the total deatha in the same ranks. Of combatant officers, in the Regular Army, Lieutenant Lawlor is the seventh Catholic to lay down his life ; and is the first among cavalry officers — a grade in which Catholica happen to be very sparsely represented.