GENERAL DE WETS BOOK.
[To THE EDITOR OF T82 "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—Referring to your editorial note to Sir A. Conan Doyle's letter on De Wet's book (Spectator, December 13th), and more particularly as regards the conduct of the Army Service Corps —13th Company—at Koornspruit, I wish to observe that the waggons of the company were driven into the donga by the native boys, whilst the Army Service Corps non-commissioned officers and men superintended the hooking in, and harnessing up of those waggons, which were subjected to the Boer shell- fire from the east. When the last of the waggons moved off from the bivouac the Army Service Corps men rode to reach the head of the line of transport; Sergeant Green, 13th Com- pany Army Service Corps, on reaching the donga, grasped the situation, and giving the alarm by firing his revolver, was instantly shot dead. My Subaltern, Local - Lieutenant Croxford, in actual command of the detachment of the company, was wounded, and together with the detachment was captured. On being released on our entering Pretoria, both he and my warrant officer, Staff Sergeant-Major Briscoe, informed me of the late Sergeant Green's action. Lieutenant Croxford is now in South Africa, pursuing his ordinary avocation of a farmer, or doubtless he would have supplied you with this information.—I am, Sir, &c., C. D. CHRISTOPHER, Captain, late Commanding 13th Company A.S.C.
[We are specially glad to publish this interesting letter, as it does justice to that brave and devoted soldier, Sergeant Green. Throughout the war the Army Service Corps did splendid work; but the death-dealing bullet "struck no nobler breast" than that of the man who so certainly and so consciously sacrificed his life to give the alarm.—En. Spectator.]
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