Of his personal character he w: jan intensely practical man and possessed great moral and physical Jcourage which never failed to assert themselves in the most difficult situations as was amply manifested in his earlier Boer War days. He was a man made for endurance of, bhard practical difficulties in the feld fand anything like show or osten! tion was foreign to his whole quality above all qualities which made men admire him. His 1 wa be. remembered as that of a great soldier.
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