[American Adventures by Julian Street]@TWC D-Link bookAmerican Adventures CHAPTER XVI 13/16
E.K.Bradbury, a member of the Cahir Harriers, earned the V.C.at Nery, but died from wounds. The Grafton Hounds have seventy-six followers with the colors. Admiral Sir David Beatty, of North Sea fame, has a hunting box at Brooksby Hall, in the Melton Mowbray country. Five members of the Crawley and Horsham Hounds have been killed, three wounded, and two are missing. Quorn fields down to about 30, instead of 300 last season. Captain the Honorable R.B.F.Robertson (Twenty-first Lancers) a prisoner of war.
He took over the North Tipperary Hounds in May, and, of course, did not get a chance to have any sport. We now learn that the French authorities have discouraged fox-hunting behind the fighting lines.
So did the Germans.
One day British hounds took up the scent on their own initiative.
The usual followers had bigger game afoot, and were in the thick of an engagement.
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