OBITUARY.
MR. BENNET BURLEIGH.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
London, June 17. The death occurred to-day of Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the noted war correspondent. PRESSMAN'S VARIED CAREER. Mr. Bennet Burleigh, one of the oldest of war correspondents, had a remarkable career. He was born in Glasgow, and had his first experience of active service in the American Civil War, where he was twice captured and sentenced to death. In 1882 ho joined the staff of the London Central News Agency as war correspondent, and represented that agency in the first part of the Egyptian. War of 1882. Later ho transferred to the Daily Telegraph, and as the correspondent of that journal was engaged in a long series of campaigns. Ho was present at the liistorio fight at Tel-el-Kebir and at thu battles of El Teb and Tamai, being twico mentioned in despatches. He followed this up by participating in the French campaign in Madagascar and that over, went back to the Egyptian desert, accompanying the column from Korti to Metamraah, being present at Abu Klea and Abu Kin. After a' brief sojourn in London he went to Ashanti, and after the Atbara campaign, went with Kitchener to Khartoum, being present at Omdurman. His despatches from the South African War were trustworthy and interesting. After a Tun to Somnliland in pursuit of the Mullah, he wont to Manchuria for the Russo-Japanese War. His last campaign was in the Balkans War, when ho sent Home some of the most interesting and accurate budgets despatched from the Thracian battlefields, whilo his pictures of the rout and retreat of the Turks were convincing and terrible. MR. , MARTIN REYNOLDS. (Received June 18, 6 p.m.) Montreal, June 17. The death took place yesterday of Mr. Martin M. Reynolds, second vice-president of tho Grand Trunk Paoific Railway.
Mr. Reynolds arrived in Canada from the United States in 1908. For five years ho bad experience of Mexican railways. He had been connected with American railroads for 30 years,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15639, 19 June 1914, Page 7
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