EARL OF WARWICK
DEATH ANNOUNCED AH ADVENTUROUS LIFE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, January 31. (Received February 1, at noon.) The Earl of Warwick died to-day at the age of forty-live. He had bad an adventurous career. When only seventeen years of ago (he was then Lord Brooke) he ran away from home and enlisted as a, private for service in the South African War. He was granted a commission. Ho fought at Diamond llilA and in other engagements, and eventually became aide-de-camp to Lord Milner. In the Russo-Japanese War he had a thrilling experience as a special correspondent with the Russian army. At the outbreak of the Great War he was appointed aide-de-camp to Sir John French, and subsequently commanded the 4th Canadian infantry Brigade.
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Evening Star, Issue 19779, 1 February 1928, Page 5
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125EARL OF WARWICK Evening Star, Issue 19779, 1 February 1928, Page 5
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