To the end of the war they could not speak of him without tears in their eyes.
When I asked Sergeant Howe why his captain went almost alone up the hill, his answer was, 'Because the captain knew no fear.' Byrne, his soldier servant (an Omdurman V.C.like his master), galloped madly off next morning with a saddled horse to bring back his captain alive or dead, and had to be forcibly seized and restrained by our cavalry.

], one of the most promising of the younger officers of the British army.
He had formed a corps of scouts, consisting originally of four men, but soon expanding to seventy or eighty.

At the head of these men he confirmed the reputation for desperate valour which he had won in the Soudan, and added to it proofs of the enterprise and judgment which go to make a leader of light cavalry.

In the course of the reconnaissance he ascended a small kopje accompanied by three companions, Colonel Hoskier, a London Volunteer soldier, Vice, a civilian, and Sergeant Howe.

'They are right on the top of us,' he cried to his comrades, as he reached the summit, and dropped next instant with a bullet through his heart.