SEAFORTHS' PRESENT TO A BRAVE WOMAN.
....When the Seaforth Highlanders were fighting at Jagersfontein, on October 16 last, Private Brown fell wounded outside a house in which a Miss Newton resided. Brown cried, "For God's sake, lady, pull me out of this." Miss Newton at once dragged him into the verandah out of the line of fire. Bullets were flying along the street thickly at the time; but Miss Newton remained with the wounded soldier, doing what she could for him until the ambulance arrived. The men of the Seaforth Highlanders gratefully remembered this act of mercy, and have sent her a beautiful gold bracelet watch, bearing this inscription: "Presented to Miss A. E. Newton, from the Seaforth Highlanders, in admiration of her heroic conduct in assisting their wounded comrade under fire, 16th October, 1900."
The Blackburn Times, Saturday 11th May 1901