A V.C.'S DEATH
A slip on a mat while walking from lib' study to the garden ended the adventurous life of Lieutenant-general Sir Fenton John Aylmer, V.C., 73. This was stated at a Wimbledon inquest, where a verdict of accihntal death was returned. For 14 years Sir Feuton used crutches as a result of a cycling accident iu which be broke a leg and another accident which befell his wheeled chair as soon as he was able to use it after the first accident. One of his crutches slipped as he was walking at his Wimbledon borne, and lcter he collapsed and died. As Captain Aylmer he won the V.C. in the Indian Frontier campaign of 1891. He was wounded, but advanced twice under heavy fire to light the fuse of a charge of gun-cotton against the main gate of the Nilt fort. The Puniali Rajah, who watched Captain Aylmer's feat, is reported to have said, "This is the fighting of giants, not of men."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22716, 31 October 1935, Page 4
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