Colonel Dick-Cunningham

Commanding officer of the Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith anD was with them at the battle of Elandslaagte where he was seriously wounded. He returned to duty about the beginning of January and early on the morning of the 6^th he was told to take his battalion up to Caesars Camp. He marched across the Klip River bridge at the head of his men and immediately wheeled to the left. He was then struck in the right side by a Mauser bullet, which must have been fired at least two miles off, for there was not a Boer within two miles. The bullet pierced the liver and lodged in the peritoneum. Peritonitis set in and he died within 18 hours. Had the bullet been going at a velocity due to 1000 or even 1500 yards it would have penetrated his body and the wound would have been all right in a few weeks the doctors say.