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Military History Journal
Vol 19 No 2 - June 2021
The Battles of Bastion Hill
20-21 January 1900
Part 1 - May 1899 to December 1899
By Robert Davidson

Dundonald, who had been at school with Childe, read the burial service that night: “... we buried him close to a field of Indian corn. His men buried him affectionately and reverently in his clothes (Dundonald, 1926, p191). The reporter for the Daily Telegraph wrote “there were sobs and tears in that sad last farewell”. Childe had confided to his comrades a premonition that he would be killed. He asked them, as a favour, to put on his grave the words of Scriptural quotation “Is it well with the child?” ... “It is well.” (2 Kings iv. 26.) (Burleigh, 1900, p317). Childe was buried near the Mounted Brigade camp ... (approx.GPS -28.6592, 29.4364) Q and later re-interred at Rangeworthy Military Cemetery.

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