THE LAST SHOT
.Mr. Walter, John Taylor, who has just retired, after twenty-six years as a constable in. Southampton Borough; Police Force; is believed to have fired the last; shot-in the Boer War. .Enlist-: ing when ihe was only fourteen in the 20th Hussars, he remained with.them for fourteen years, and served in' South Africa iwith Colonel Nixon's Plying Column: In an interview, telling the story of the last shot, he said:—"lt ■was at night on the veldt, and the armistice with the . Boers had been signed, though we in our. unit did not know that.' I suddenly; saw. the shadowy figure of a horseman trying to break through our lines. : I fired, and the bullet hit the shoulder of the horse and the leg of the rider. You can imagine my surprise -when I heard a ■British curse. The man I had shot was a British corporal despatch-rider bringing us'news of the armisticej and he 'told me that he had been through three years of the war without injury. I "believe he was the last British casualty in the South African War."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 7
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183THE LAST SHOT Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 7
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