AN OFFICER'S EXPERIENCE.
ORDERED TO BE SHOT.
Harwsmith, September 3. Among tbe Yeomen here was Capt. Cbatfield now with the 14th Battalion of Imperial Yeomanry, who was in the Kimberley Light Horse during tbe siege of tbe diamond town. This officer has shone conspicuously on more than one occasion, and on the day when tbe 38th Battery was silenced rescued, with some 30 of his scouts, two guns of this battery. It does not fall to everyone's lot to be ordered to be shot at 12 o'clock, and yet not to be ; but Captain Chatfield bad this experience. He was taken a prisoner with his servant, and informed that he was to be shot at 12 o'clock. He had been tried by Court Martial, but was not allowed to say anything in bis defence. The accusation was that, being found in tbe enemy's lines during a truce, be was coneidered a spy. Fortunately Commandant Haas turned up and stayed proceedings. He was kept face to face with death till 5 p.m. tbe next day, when Haas took him away and conducted him back to General Macdonald. Captain Chatfield had been ordered by someone to take a look at the enemy, and was ambushed.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7052, 23 October 1900, Page 2
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203AN OFFICER'S EXPERIENCE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7052, 23 October 1900, Page 2
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