A BRAVE MAN'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 225, 20 September 1913, Page 17

A BRAVE MAN'S DEATH.

Early in July a brief report reached England that Captain Pritchard, of the Wallajahbad Light Infantry.' had been drowned while on an exploring expedition to the north of Burma. Details of the manner of his death have now come to hand, and show that the officer lost his life while making a plucky effort to swim a rapid river. Tbe story is told in the "Times" as follows:— According to a Rangoon correspondent, Captain Pritchard and his companion. Captain Waterfield, of the 4Sth Sikhs, arrived at a tributary of the Irrawn-dy, and found it spanned by a rope bridge, but, owing to tales spread by a deserter, the villagers were busy untying the strands at the far end, and they had just finished the task when the party came up. Captaiu Pritchard said he would swim across and refasten the ropes, anil as a precaution against the dangers of the strong current a rope was attached to h'.s body. At the middle of the stress-, however. the Tope broke. Captain rritchnrd called out. "Good-bye. old chap; I'm off." and then disappeared and was swept over tlsp rapisls and never seen again, nor could bis body be recovered.