FAMOUS SOLDIER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 227, 25 September 1930, Page 7

FAMOUS SOLDIER.

DEATH OF GENERAL MAHON.

LONDON, September 24. The death is announced of General Sir Bryan Mahon, aged 68.

cipher had been arranged, and so Mahon sent the following message: Our numbers axe the Naval and Military Club, multiplied by 10; our guns the number of sons in the Wardfamily, and our supplies the O.C. ' 9th Lancers. BadenPowell, knowing that the club's address was 94 r ! Piccadilly, that I . there were sixj young Wards, andj that the officer mentioned was named Little, had no difficulty in interpreting the message. The dash was successful, the small force charging through the besiegersHnes, and not only taking the Boers by surprise, but leaving them with the fear! that it was the advance guard 01 a superior i force For this service Mahon received the GB In the South African War General Ttfalion was a well-known figure. It is Noteworthy that Prince Alexander of Teck served on his staff. During the Great War he was. in the Dardanelles operations, and later commanded the Salonika army. In 1916, however he was recalled to become Com-mander-in-Chief in Ireland an appointment which, as he was an Irishman, and haf a Sd respected by both Enghsh and Irish, was regarded in view of the need for excessive tact, as a result of the suppression -rf a rebellion just berore as particularly appropriate, Mahon who had been knighted in 1912, retired from the Amy in 1921, becoming later a Senator of Aelrish Free State. In the later stages «f Tiia career he was affectionately known