HOW MAJOR DAWNAY DIED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 6

HOW MAJOR DAWNAY DIED.

I "FOLLOW ME. BOYS." Corjiocal J. •lennin£». of Tadcaster CVorks). -who U an ev-London policeman \ Bud ii HouwliuKl Cavalryman, now home en leave, rolat.-s how -Major the Hon. j Eugh .Dawuay. D.s.o. rind Life (iuards>,. Tounjrer son of ilajor-<ioneral \"iscount , iDown... of I>in»ly Hall. Market Harhoroiiir'i ami Wvkeliarn Abbey. Soarboroucli mo; hU-Jeath in action in the rejrion of j Ypres. ■• VW were at ZiUcheke. about three niile> from Ypres. aa. the time, and the order was <;iven for "200 of us to storm t-everau farmhouse;?, situated on a ridge, in the of the Germans. Wo coukl nor. advance under cover, and had to expos.' TTairsclve> to rifle and shell fire. .Stall not a man -a-avered. Mejor Dawuay, A great favourite with all of us. led the ■eHar«re. •Wβ gav t > one _£jreat eiiecr. and Ttrith a '"150140w mo. boys, and frrip tight.' , drom theJr.ajor. we leapt after him. All the way. 'Dswuav was in the fore"front. and he was the first to reach the patting on the back a man •who iva~ rxrwling over scuttling Germans 3ike ninepins, ""■Good boyi' ■shouted fche major, who dhen tnrned and thrust his revolver Hhrongh the lower window of the iirmHe "was immediately riddled with from -ffithia and collapsed. 'UTien >we TeaJised he was dead a number of us tirrept. If yon knew- how we all loved ?that mm you would have understood. -3JVe—wotdd wiMingly have died for him."