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The Great Boer War

CHAPTER 15
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Captain Muriel of the Middlesex was shot through the check while giving a cigarette to a wounded man, continued to lead his company, and was shot again through the brain.

Scott Moncrieff of the same regiment was only disabled by the fourth bullet which hit him.

Grenfell of Thorneycroft's was shot, and exclaimed, 'That's all right.

It's not much.' A second wound made him remark, 'I can get on all right.' The third killed him.

Ross of the Lancasters, who had crawled from a sickbed, was found dead upon the furthest crest.


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