GENERAL COLVILLE'S DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 92, 11 January 1908, Page 12

GENERAL COLVILLE'S DEATH.

•Sir Henry had-been'out?on his.- motor cycle, and was returning about dusk to his home at Llghtwatcri.Granget along Heather'' side Road, between',Camberley and' Bagshbt. At ; a comer where'the road joins the. Mauitway, which leads f rbnv Blackdpwii Deepoiit Barracks to Bagshot,"lie collided with a mbt<jr'cai\ driven . by.Brigadier-General Sir 'Henry ' Rawlirisbii j ! (commandant, of tha : troops■■ at' BlacKdowiij aiidlate in', command 'of the Staff College), ivho'was turning into Heatherside Road froni the direction of the barracks -to go to jiGaiiiberieyi ■ The motor cycle.jtrUck the car 'on..the off front coriier, aiid' Sir Henry Colyille • was thrown with great violence overHthe bonnet of the. fcar to tbe<fcide of the road;

Sir Heriry Rawlinson,. who' waß .accom.paiiibd by Lady Raivlinson, stopped, his car as quickly as possible,, and rati to where/Sir Heriry Coivillo was lying. -It was at once seen that Sir. Heriryj. who had Jjitohed.oa his head| was terribly injuredi and BrigadierGerteral Rawliiisbir commUiiibated with the Brompton Hospital Sahatqriiirnj-•' while?' 1 * > telophonid communication Wis sent to Caiiir berley for' tlio St. John Ambulance van, arid for Dr. W> Li Shiartj of Cdmberleyi who droyb at once to tlid' spot ,iii his; ltidtor-ekh Under the direction .of Brigadier-General .ifawliiisohj the iiljurtd general wab removed to the .sanatorium; where he received, evefy attention .it tho hands of Dr. C. E. Pattersoli, the. Superintendentsand his staff, . I)r. Stuart. Ail examihatioii of. Sir Hehrj' Coivillo revealed the' fact,that lie was.suff&ring from'a severe, fracture of the base of- thA ' skull. The Gaso Vas hopeless ffoin the first, and the. general did ilot regain consciousness. '■ ' '

As sOon as possible Lady Coivillo was com* niunioated withj but, as .she was away on: a visit to Burtbn-on-Trenti' it. was not possible for her to bo present before death took plate. After travelling fall night she reached tho sanatorium' at 7 a.m., to. find that her husband had died somo hours beforci