A BRAVE AUSTRALIAN GIRL.
A correspondent signing himself '• Bravo," forwards the Argus the following incident, which be says is taken from advices received by the last mail from the Indian frontier :—" Fort Lockhart, or Grulistan, was recently the scene of a sharp engagement with the tribesmen. When the war broke out the wife of one of the English officers, having a young infant, was unable to leave and remained, with her other two children and a nursegirl, by name Teresa Macgrath, in the doubtful shelter of a mud hut within the so-called fort. Teresa, who is a young Australian, exhibited on this occasion a courage and coolness well worthy of record. During the whole of the attack, which lasted fourteen hours, she was the doctor's right hand assistant, attending to the injured native soldiers and dressing their wounds, and all this under an extremely heavy musketry fire. The comment of hei eldest charge (aged six) on the affair is rather striking, and singularly applicable to the curious waiting game at present being played by the Indian Government. ' There was nasty men creeping up. Daddy saw them burning the hedge, then he shooted the man that did it, and I told him he should have shooted him first.''»
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Western Star, Issue 2154, 6 November 1897, Page 7
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207A BRAVE AUSTRALIAN GIRL. Western Star, Issue 2154, 6 November 1897, Page 7
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