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Walter Cardell, Reservist - suicide on 31.3.1903 4 years 8 months ago #64984

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FOLLOWED HECTOR MACDONALD . - A reservist named Walter Cardell, who served under Sir Hector MacDonald in South Africa, committed suicide on Tuesday night by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. Evidence showed that Cardell had brooded over the tragic death of his old commander. A verdict of "Temporary insanity" was returned.

Edinburgh Evening News, Thursday 2nd April 1903

His death was registered in Luton, but I couldn't find a record of his birth in either England or Scotland.

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