MISCELLANEOUS.
ECHO OF KUT-EL-AMA'RA
AN OFFICER'S SACRIFICE
LONDON, May 28
. Turkish rctports state that Lieutenant H. O. B. Firman, R.N., who was in charge of the ship which attempted to take supplies to Ivut-ei-Amara a few days before the surrender of General Towrishend, was killed.
Lieutenant Firman commanded a gunboat on the Tigris, and cheerfully volunteered to take charge of the forlorn hope.
A message from London on April 28 said: —"The War Office announces that an attempt oh the night of April 24 to send a ship to Kut-cl-Amara with supplies for General Townshend's force, though carried out with the utmost gallantry, unfortunately failed.
"Our aeroplanes discovered the ship aground near Mngasis. about four miles oast of Kut-el-Amnra."
Lieutenant Humphrey tO. R. Firman in January. 191/5, -was first lieutenant in the cruiser Prcserpine.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8462, 30 May 1916, Page 6
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