AUSTRALIAN PROMOTIONS.
The Capetown correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, writing on lbth April, gives the following list of promotions in the Sixth Imperial Bushmen for meritorious work:-— Sergt. ( Thompson, to be second lieutenant. — Seeing 80 of tho enemy about to occupy a wood, ho took 15 men, and galloped to anticipate, which h»j did ; had this wood been occupied, the advance would have been checked and impeded for a time. Lance-Cor-poral M'Chymont to be corporal. — Noticing a Boer shooting at Lieut. Hungerford from the pass at short range, he charged and shot him. Corporal Newlands to be sergeant.— Seeing son*e Boers trying ti> get a gun limber away he cuarged then! by himself, and engaged them until supported by some more men, when the limber was taken. Private Phodenback to be corporal. — Was a scout on the extreme right of the advance, and found 50 Boers in a gully. He opened fire, and kept on firing till the Boers retired. Private Fawkes to be corporal.— Charged a- kopje under heavy fire, firing himself from his horse. The rest of the troop followed, and the enemy fled..
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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)
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187AUSTRALIAN PROMOTIONS. Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)
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