Late Captain in Rimington’s Guides
LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
37 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, W.C.
1902
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DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to the memory of my friend Lieutenant Gustavus Coulson, D.S.O., of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who fell at Lambrechtfontein on May 19, 1901.
The Colonel in command writes that in that action Lieutenant Coulson rallied some men and saved a gun from falling into the enemy’s hands. He lost his life in bringing off a wounded man from under the enemy’s fire. For this deed, the last of many deeds as brave, he was recommended for the Victoria Cross.
I knew him from his childhood, and on the march from Lindley to Pretoria, and thence far south to Basutoland, we often rode together, and talked of West Country sport and his Devonshire home and faces that we both knew and loved there.
A keen soldier, a cheery comrade, and a brave and kindly English gentleman, he stands, it seems to me, the very type of those gallant boys who in this South African war have died for England.