30 OCTOBER 1909, page 14

British Heroes.

[To Tut EDII-CIT Tr? SPECTAT011.1 Sin,—Here is yet another deed for "Pro Patrite" On Jure 18th, 1815, at Hougoumont a shell fell among a group of officers. Captain Colquit, of......

[to The Editor Of The " Sp1ct Atop:7 Sir,—a Propos

of "Pro Patritt's " letter concerning "British Heroes" in your issue of October 16th, I must confess that I quite fail to see his reason for indulging in "grief and shame"......

[to Th2 Editor Of The "spectator:1

Sin,—As instances of British coolness and pluck, "Pro Patritt." may like to hear of the late Lieutenant-Colonel T. Bernard Hackett, V.C., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who when a......

[to The Editor Of The " Spectator:] Sin,—just Before Reading

the answers to "Pro Patrifes " inquiry in your columns I received a letter from a lady in India, and although the letter will not help "Pro Petri " in his inquiry, now that the......

[to The Editor Of The Sprctator."1

Sin,—Among your British heroes I should like to recall to memory my old class-fellow and comrade, Joe Hughes of the 54th Foot. He was Adjutant of the regiment which sailed for......

[to Tee Editor Of Thr "spectator"] Sir,—in Your Issue Of

October 16th "Pro Patrii," on behalf of a Bulgarian officer, asks for instances of specific acts of heroism, in which men, for the benefit of their country and not of......

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Rro The Editor Op The ”srsereroa.."1 Sin,—another But...

was Major Sydney Waudby, of the 19th Bombay Native Infantry, who, though he knew the little post of Dabrai, in Southern Afghanistan, was to be attacked by a horde of Afghans,......

• [to Rim Editor Of Tin "spectatoi1.1 Sir,—amongst The...

men already mentioned in the Spectator, perhaps I may be allowed to record the feat of lady, as it was told to me soon after the Indian Mutiny. A party of women and children was......