DIED

Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 1

DIED

The following is from tho ‘Forward’ (Glasgow), which quotes Brigadier-general Crorier in the Sunday Express’ (London), 13.5.28:“Tho fire having been stoked up and an easy c !, air, books, and papers procured, and refroshmenls in the shape of cake, a bottle of whisky, and a pint of rum placed on tho table, he was left to himself “Next morning at dawn the battalion fell in on the road under my command, the condomnc.fi man having been carried out of his last billet in secret and tied to tho slake —speechless, blipd, apd quite oblivious to anything that was happening around him.

"I had specially selected tho officer who was in command of the firing party, and had warned him that as at dawn, while chilled and nervous, even P’C best men miss their mark, he was lo be ready with revolver drawn and loaded in order that, if necessary, the victim might be ‘finished off’ instantly. “I had arranged that no words of command were to be given, s;ive when. I called the battalion to attention, when I saw (I was the only one who could) the officer commap-fipc' th" firi”" partv pick up a w’ute handker'h’of, which was also the sign'd for f'm fi-hv? party to come to ‘the n-eseot.’ When he lowered his arm a volley rantr. out. “Mas! as T exoected although only a few yards di'tant Don (he doomed man. several bullet' mbs-d their mark, whereupon the medic l ! pronounced ike not lo -he extinct the officer in charge of the firing .party administered the ‘coup de grac«’ with hi« revolver. , “VI? hurled the dead scldicr in the little (v'met-’ry. with his name and the word ‘Died,’ together wiib the date, on his cress.