30 OCTOBER 1909, Page 14

[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 Subaltern at the relief of Lucknow gained the Cross for two gallant acts ; one, helping with others to save the life and carry off a wounded soldier exposed to a severe fire ; the other a conspicuous act of coolness and courage, mounting the roof of a thatched bungalow (powder magazine), and, wearing the regimental busby (a fine mark for the enemy), cutting away the burning thatch which the natives had fired.