SHERIDAN – RICHARD BRINSLEY

Note:

Note:
AS THE BRITISH GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE IS A LITTLE OFF THE BEATEN TRACK, THE GPS POINTS SHOWN FROM WHERE THE  CEMETERY IS VISIBLE, AND THE DIRECTIONS GIVEN IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, ARE EXTRACTED COURTESY OF JACKIE GROBLER’S BOOK – ANGLO BOER WAR – HISTORICAL GUIDE TO MEMORIALS AND SITES IN SOUTH AFRICA PAGE 197. 
IN HIS BOOK COMMANDO, DENEYS REITZ GIVES A GOOD DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE WITH THE 17TH LANCERS.  HE TELLS OF HOW LIEUT. SHERIDAN MET HIS END.  “NICHOLAS SWART  BY MY SIDE SHOT TWO OTHER SOLDIERS IN QUICK SUCCESSION, AS THEY TRIED TO JOIN THOSE IN THE ROCKS.  THERE WAS A YOUNG LIEUTENANT A FEW FEET FROM ME.  I FOUND OUT AFTERWARDS THAT HIS NAME WAS SHERIDAN, AND THEY SAID HE WAS A COUSIN OF WINSTON CHURCHILL.  TWICE HE ROSE TO FIRE AT ME AND MISSED ; AT HIS SECOND ATTEMPT I GRAZED HIS TEMPLE, AND HE DROPPED OUT OF SIGHT, BUT ONLY DAZED, FOR IN A MOMENT HE WAS UP AGAIN, SWAYING UNSTEADILY ON HIS FEET, WITH HIS FACE STREAMING WITH BLOOD, BUT STILL TRYING TO LEVEL HIS RIFLE AT ME.  WHILE I WAS HESITATING WHAT TO DO, JACK BORRIUS SHOT HIM THROUGH THE BRAIN”.