DEATH OF LORD DARTMOUTH'S SON

In a recent letter from Lord Dartmouth to President Nichols expressing appreciation of the sympathy of his Dartmouth friends further details of the death in Gallipoli of his second son, Captain Legge, are given. The love of the men in his regiment for him was most affecting as is well illustrated by a letter of one of the sergeants to his wife. To quote in part from this: "Captain Legge was first hit on the shoulder on Hill 50 on the 9th (of August) and just after he was bandaged up he was hit again on the thigh. He would not let anyone leave the firing line to carry him away out of danger, but kept on encouraging the men to stick it. It was hell itself just there. We were in a lot of short, dried scrub sagebrush and the Turks were about a hundred yards in front of us. We were waiting for reinforcements to come up to us, to charge them. But the reinforcements never came, there were none. Every man in the brigade was at it in some part of the line. I was on the right of the company. I wish I had been near the captain. I should have taken no notice of him but have made two men carry him away. Another regiment gave way on our left and the Turks enfiladed us from there and also had us enfiladed on our right from Hill 11. Four men got killed trying to carry the captain away. He had courage enough for twenty men. If ever an officer was loved by his men, he was. There is none left who knew him will ever forget him. He was my ideal of an English officer and gentlemen." Lord Dartmouth adds: "The only criticism we have heard from the men is that he was too humane'. For exampie he refused to let them shoot a Turkish sniper they had taken and told them the man was fighting for his country just as they were for theirs. When last seen he was mortally wounded, still cheering on his men."