The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-12-17
ENGLISH CAPTAIN TELLS HOW MEN
DIE RATHER THAN ABANDON GUNS

the found the IL guns all out OF ac-
tlon from the fire Of three.
Ihe three survivors of the rank and
IIae are recommended for the Victoria
lioss. as previously mentioned. Cap
tam bradbury and L~ieutenants Camn-
pei and Mundy. who were killed. re-
celved special mention in dispatches.
~ Lieutenant Jephson, the surviving
though severely wounded officer. re-
celVed the Legion of Honor from the
trench.
The British Royal Horse Artillery
gun Is a 13-pounder, quiek-firing gun.
IN distinction to the field artillery the
ehtare attachments are mounted; in the
latter the runners set on the guns and
llneer. The Royal Field Artillery weap-
or IS an ~lS-pounder, quick-firer and is
!ltenaea 10 accompany infantry, and
me ttoyal Horse Artillery guns are Pc
Scuilarly the complement of a cayahry
horse.
.
This action recalls the incident of
the w batteries of Royal Field Ar
livery at Colenso, in the Boar war.
Vlsien. as the unit was then called.
commanded by Colonel Long, a DASH
ing horse gunner who had won dis
JUNCTION In h Soudan. were ordered
TO engage the guns in the Beer
on the Teye1a heights. Gal
49, w "a VI liIo the 0DGn, the pIlnG
as they ualinabered on the plain, were
net by a blast OF rifle fire from the
boers, who, all unknown, had occu-
pied the river bad.
Hero Dies at Gun.
Teams n attachments went down
put the suns continued in action fiji
put Il man was left and he, unable to
serve his gum alone, fired a last shot ana
then stood quietly at attention behind
me gun (Which in those days had no
shlelds) till he fell. When his body
was found later it had been pierced
py 80 bullet wounds. Meantime. spara
eeaLns were ~galloping up, but only two
goula De hooked in, the rest all went
down in the storm OF bullets fTera
Lieut.. Fredric Roberts, son of the Great
Ileld marshal, won hif Victoria. Cross
ana lost his life; only those two runs
were saved. All this while in a shallew
aouga nearby the gallant Long, shot
III = Quga me hver, was being held back
py force from crawling back into the
deadly hail, exclaiming to one VIII
.oio nlin mat the guns must be aban-
aoned: Damn you, sir; we never aban-
don guns"
we recall again the heroic Colonel
benson, lying with both thighs shat
tered across the trail of a gun on the
Iatal plateau of Bro~kenlaagte. Around
MN IN heaps We're what had been the
gun detaehments, the rear guard of
scot1lsh Horse and other mounted in
lily. gaining to him two troopers
sun able to crawl he ordered them
pack to the main body on the RIDGE be-
hand. "Iell the ordnance mmande
or the rest of the battery to open fire
on the ridge and on these two guns
iei nm to keep up a steady fire till
aaIk n then let them bring these
guns off. Tell him to never mind MS
We're out of action already-but tho
boefs must not get there guns"
Other Instances.
Instances could be muItiplied from
.he peninsula down to today. of Ram
OF the Chestnut troop r. TT A
surrounded by Chasseurs a CIeVai and
t,eiis aaDcers who liInbered IN and
sn2rge0 right through the French, WIN
n1ng from the stern wellington q rare
compliment Well done gallant Norman
ramsey of Michael Dawes at CbT1ian-
Ma5lah who saved a cavalry reefnngnt
md at the finish brought in the SeI.en~
.eenth BeYal Light battery, creeping
lonle Two WCundsd horses to a gun ana
vith guns and Hrlbcrs piled with
wounded; of Wynter of the Twentv-
ninth indian Mountain battery. who
ast every mule Of his section and
Vnose drivers fought the Patf1ans OFF
yilh ~cutiasses and hand spikes while
ne summers cleared the guns and came
~ actlon at 20 yards. blowing the
,athans away with ease and reversed
hrapnel: While Wynter himself Law
'Ith a shattered leg with his NOLAN.
orderly lying on him as a shield
hlsht-nearly all, British officers.
ave oftlcers, gunneFs and drivers
4iaea, but they saved the guns.
The cavalry have their guidons. tbe
1lahtry their colors and they are
acfed, but the gunner has only his
uhs. The romance of war is diving.
ne work OF the inventor. and the I.
ofIlula of the scientists rule the bat
efield; but it will be a poorer world /;
.hlch sees a day when the Royal artii-
ny find some other rule of conduct
IAN the gallant Longs damn you sir {
never abandon guns /,