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The Wilts and Montgomery Yeomanry are with us, and at the common watering-place, a villainous little pool, with a steep, slippery descent to it, I recognized Alexander Lafone, of the latter corps. I walked to their lines after tea, found him sergeant of the guard, and we talked over a fire. We had last seen one another as actors in some amateur theatricals in a country town at home.
The killed included, besides Colonel Dick-Cunyngham, Major Mackworth of the 2nd Queen's; Lieutenant Hall, Rifle Brigade; Major Miller-Wallnutt, Gordon Highlanders; Lieutenant Digby-Jones and Lieutenant Dennis of the Royal Engineers, all of whom met death heroically; Captains Lafone and Field, who were shot down as they charged at the head of their regiment; and many gallant volunteers serving in the ranks of the Imperial Light Horse.
One of them, I'm sorry to say, is Lafone, with a glancing wound under the eye, sight uninjured. We camped at five, and unharnessed. It seems the Yeomanry lost ten men prisoners, but the Boers released them after taking their rifles. August 19. Sunday. Reveillé at four. Some days are very irritating to the soldier, and this was a typical one.
In wounded 28 officers, 244 men a total of 420, Lord Ava, the honoured Son of an honoured father, the fiery Dick-Cunyngham, stalwart Miller-Wallnutt, the brave boy sappers Digby-Jones and Dennis, Adams and Packman of the Light Horse, the chivalrous Lafone we had to mourn quality as well as numbers.
It was Morgiana and Drexel, that fluid and electric review which Bat though he gave Lafone the credit really created. 'Ye-es, said Bat dreamily, after Morgiana had given 'the nasty jar' to the Forty Thieves in their forty oil 'combinations. 'As you say, I've got 'em and I can hold 'em. What a man does doesn't matter much; and how he does it don't matter either.
Lafone was carrying the police-court scene, and the house was ripped up crossways with laughter. 'Ah! Tell a fellow now, she asked me for the twentieth time, 'did you love Nellie Farren when you were young? 'Did we love her? I answered. "If the earth and the sky and the sea" There were three million of us, 'Dal, and we worshipped her. 'How did she get it across? Dal went on.
Captain Lafone, who had been wounded at Elandslaagte, was killed; Lieutenant Price-Dent so seriously injured that there is little hope of his recovery; six other subalterns wounded one being hit by shrapnel bullets or splinters in four places and the mess waiter struck down by a heavy splinter that embedded itself beneath the ribs in a cavity too deep for probing at present.
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