BUFFALO KILLS OFFICER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 252, 25 October 1933, Page 5

BUFFALO KILLS OFFICER.

CHARGE IN AFRICAN WILDS. Charging suddenly from cover in the dense African bush, a buffalo, maddened bv an old wound, attacked Lieut. F. W. Kiddle from behind and inflicted fatal injuries. The lieutenant, accompanied by a native orderly, was taking a walk from a lonely military outpost at Meru, in the heart of an area infested with wild beasts. A Nairobi doctor dashed by air to the wounded man, who was later conveyed by road to Nairobi. But the fight for I life was vain, and Lieut. Kiddle was j buried with military honours. The "Exchange" states that the dead man's mother recently wrote appealing to him to give up hunting. The appeal followed, the death of a brother officer of the lieutenant on a hunting expedition. Lieut. Kiddle was the son of Colonel Kiddle, late R.A.M.C., and now assistant medical officer of the mental hospital at Colchester. He had been seconded to the 3rd King's African Rifles. Educated at Marlborough College, nn was 27, ~and-hfA been six years in the Axmy,