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2 return to his post ; and while yet weak, and barely
3 recovered, he rejoined the regiment of which he
4 was acting quarter-master, and with it entered the
5 enemy’s entrenchment at Sobraon, where he was
6 again wounded, but not dangerously, and there
7 was no reasen to entertain any fears for his
8 recovery. He left camp, however, on his way to
9 Feerozpore, was seized with lockjaw, which speedily
10 proved fatal, and thus his friends and the service
11 were deprived of as gallant a young officer as the
12 army could boast of. His mild manners and
13 evenness of temper, combined with his gentlemanly
14 bearing, under which was concealed the most daring
15 courage, gained him the esteem of the regiment to
16 which he was attached, and his own (the 14th
17 Native Infantry) could not more poignantly lament
18 his loss than did the Ist European light in-
19 fantry.
20 If our readers do not forgive us for this seeming
21 partiality, in introducing men unknown to fame,
22 we trust the surviving friends of the latter will be
23 more lenient. We do not mention them as having
24 performed deeds which any other officers would not
25 have done, but merely because we knew them per-
26 sonally. It would be a pleasing task for us to
27 record the brave young soldiers of other regiments,
28 were we as well acquainted with their claims and
29 deserts. There is nothing that tends more to
30 encourage the European soldier in the midst of
31 battle, than the gallant bearing of his young offi-
32 cers; and it so happened, that this particular
33 Seinen yen te “Dies alls depupe inves ae. areca. abel - cod¥igiieks o-osbanrctk c.