SIR REDVERS BULLER DEAD.
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. London, Nov. J2. Colonel Sir Henry Redvera Buller alighted on the wrong side of a carriage platform at Woolwich, and was knocked down by a passing train and killed.
[Colonel Sir Rodvors Henry Buller, V.C , KtC.M-G., C-B-, was a eon of the-late Mr James Wentworth Buller; M.P. for .Downes, Qreditqn, Devonshire, was born in’ 1839, entered the 60th rifles in' 1858, and attained the r&nk of polfinel in JA79. He served successively in China (I 860 with tfie Red River Expedition (187<ty* in Ashantee war (1875), iu the Kaffir w»F ! IM7S1 ‘ and in the war in Zululand 1878-9), where he greatly distinguished himself, and won the Victoria Cross. He was created a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George iu November, 1882, for the services he rendered as Heid of the Intelligence Department in Egypt. Latterly he was appointed Deputy-Adjutant General at the War Office, but on the accession of Lord Salisbury to power in the summer of 1886, ho was sent to Ireland as Special Commissioner io investigate and deal with tho outrages in the disturbed diatriets of Kerry and Cork.)
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 222, 15 November 1888, Page 2
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