The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-22
FRIDAYS CASUALTIES.
Names of Officers Killed and Wounded
Near Glencoe Camp.

LONDON, Oct. 2l.-The War Office to-day
announced that the fighting yesterday on
the hills and in the plains between Glencoe
and Dundee thirty noncommissioned Ulcers
and men were killed and 151 wound' |. Sir
George Stewart White says that Gen. Sir
William Penn Symons was brighter to-day.
but that the doctor could give no further
opinion. The War Office this afternoon is
sued the following announcement:
The Queen has been pleased to approve
of the promotion OF General Symons, COM
handing the Fourth Division OF the Natal
held force, to be major general super
numerary to the establishment for dstin-
guished service in the field.
The following list of casualties in the bat
tie yesterday, received in a dispatch from
the commanding general. Sir George Stew
art White, dated Oct. q, I:2O p. m, was
made public by the War Office to-day:
Divisional Staff-General Symons, wound
ed I'm the stomach. probably NOR tally: CO
c. E. Beckett, assistant adjutant genera.
severely wounded in the right shoulder;
the leg.
Brigade Staff-Col. John Scherston, depu-
Capt. f. l.. Adam. A. ID. c., seriously
wounded in the right shoulder.
Leicestershire Regiment-Lieut. ID. W.
Weldon. wounded slightly in the hand.
First Battalion Royal Irish Fusileers-
Second Lieut.. A. III. NJ. siill. killed; Mai
CONNER, wounded, since died; Capt. j. w.
Pike, wounded; Lieut.. c.. c. Southey.
wounded; Lieut.. II. e. Wortham,, wounded
don. killed; Capt NJ Lowndes, wounded,
Capt. S. A. Dibley. wounded; Lieut. C. G.
Genge, wounded, since died.
Kings Royal Rihes-Lieut Col r. H.
Cunning. killed: Capt. II. K. Pechell killed
Lieut.. j. Kyier, killed: Lieut.. r, c. Barnett
killed: Lieut.. III. j. Hambro, killed; Maj. c.
"A. wounded. o.. 3. NuOpnr
wounded; Capt. A. X. NJ. Stuart-Wortley
wounded; Lieut.. F. NJ Crum, wounded
tieut X. Johnstone. wounded; Lieut.. G. H.
Eighteenth Hussars-Second Lieut.. Fl. A.
Cape, wounded; Second Lieut.. a. c.. Nc
Lachlan, wounded; Second Lieut. Il. b.
Bayford, wounded.
The list of officers killed and wounded
strikingly shows that, although the British
victory was complete. it was bought at a
heavy price. In addition to Sir William
Penn Symons, who is probably fatally
wounded, two colonels three captains and
five lieutenants were killed and a colonel,
three majors. six captains and ten lieuten-
ants were wounded. This heavy loss among
the officers was due, as the latest dispatches
from the front show to their valiant but
insensate conduct in sticking to the tradi-
tions Of the British army and refusing to
use the cover of which the men availed
themselves in storming the Boer position.
Among the rank and file the hussars had
seven wounded, the artillery one killed and
three wounded; the Leicestershire regiment
one wounded; the Kings Rifles eleven killed
and sixty-eight wounded; the Irish Fusi-
leers fourteen killed and thirty wounded !;
the Dublin Fusileers -four, killed and forty
one wounded and the Natal police two
wounded
Probably no other officer in tie Brit
ish army has seen more fighting than
Gen. Sir William Penn Symons. Certainly
none has seen more in India, and the cam
paigns In Burmah and Zululand revealed
his splendid qualities in the most brilliant
fashion. General Symons was one of the
few who escaped on that memorable Jam
uary morning at Isanduia, when nearly the
whole Of his regiment, the gallant Twenty
fourth, perished. Thus there is a tragic
completeness in his victory near the scene
of that massacre.
Colonel Schersten was a nephew of Gen.
Lord Frederick Roberts. AS his aid-de-
camp he went through the Afghan war, ac-
companying Lord Roberts on the famous
kandahar march. Colonel Cunning went
through the Zulu war and was also In the
Burmah campaign