FACING DEATH GALLANTLY.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 4

FACING DEATH GALLANTLY.

BUAVE WANG AN UI MASTER

Sevonil ifnteresLing letters from the ]« : te Caip'la-iii Hugh But-torwort-h, of ■the 9tlilJaUalkm of the iUfle. Brigade, formerly a- master at Wawgamu Colleyiato School, iiro published in the sclidol magazine. Captaiiii Bii'ttorwortli fell in action on September 25. He iva.s leading his men against ithe GerniHiUis n*t t.lie t-iino, and, in tJie words of Tiis colonel, ho ".showed the inosi .conspicuous courago and coolWriting .in July Gap la in, Bufcterwoi'tli wiiid: "I atn .not particularly afivu'd of doath, but I dislike the thought of dying, because I enjoy life &q much, and 1 want enjoy it a lot more. This dug-oivt life gives one pleiiifcy of timo to think, I tell you, and tho danger j.i, one gets down to a< minor key, a<nd stays there. I feel I've expiated evory crime I've ever eoininatted. I fancy tha/t when we warriors fetch up at the final inquiry they'll ask ' Whore did you perform ?' Wo shall reply 'Yprcs salient.' They'll amswer, 'Pass, friend,' ,'iiid we ehaJl stroll along to- the sound of -tnampeite a.nd sac.kbiits." "\Vr,i(,in,g in Au-gusit-: "Peitiia-ps, as .you study papers, you imagHio us in tho Ironehps with fl. coubimiii'l Rin.ilo on our face. I assure ■ you tlia't is not, always the case. I've .seen fear in the facos of almost a.ll a, company, and J Ye. I'eJt Jiiy own insi<lA go wirong, and hoaivl the voice of the tempter saying. 'Now, Buttorworilh. old eon, that's the spot for you; if you're rushed, you'll bo near the e.xit-door and be able to fall back. At tho,so times the only thing io do is to take oneself'by tlie neck and get right inito the heart of things, swarm about -anid cheer up the men, an<l generally restore, your own conlideincc. —iin yourself. I know exactly wlnat fear feoJs like at 2 o'clock in tlie morning.'' Writing nlioTit Septeinbor 20 —lv's last letter: "Of course, one lias been facing doath pretty intimately for mointiiis now. 'but willi this ahead one liiiisf. realise that, in ; bhe veraaciiilav of Sow Zcalaiud, one's uunilier.s lire probably up, We are not a srutiinoriidal crow<l at the Collegiate School, Wnnga-nui. but I think in a, le-ttetr of this .sort one can s;ny how . . . T am very much attached to tho school, tind to Sflwyn in particular. Live long and pros per. all of yon. Curiously enough, f don't, doubt my power to : ■itick it out, and 1 think my nieii will follmv me " H : s friends, sa>.s tin -, AVanyaniii ai <% , sum Uiat lii.s men folliMved him. and in those words he has )icii!iii-d Lis iiwn best praise. Htigh UuUerworth was a, ic v adw and vuspire.r of boys, who became a loader arid inspirer of man fighting in a great cause.