TRADITIONS UPHELD.
The remarkable discipline preserved by the troops aboard the sinking Mohammed Ali El-Kebir is fully in keeping with the finest traditions of the British Army and recalls another outstanding example of the kind—in the loss of the Birkenhead. The latter, a British troopship, on the night of February 25, 1852, struck a sunken reef off Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Cape Colony. At the time the vessel had on board 500 soldiers and 134 of a crew, with a number of women and children. The women and children were put into the boats, and the men fell in and stood to their ranks as though on parade, when the ship went down. Only 192 peoi>le were saved.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 218, 13 August 1940, Page 7
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120TRADITIONS UPHELD. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 218, 13 August 1940, Page 7
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