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CockneyTone Lieutenant-Colonel Registered user Posts: 441 | |
Funny who you can bump into? Hope this may be of some interest?
Taken from 'Reminiscences' by Brigadier-General G.H. Harrison. (Early 1900, somewhere outside Ladysmith)
It appears that Harrison struck up a friendship with the great man as he goes on to comment that Churchill and other War Correspondents, among them Mr Bennet Burleigh, the celebrated correspondent of the Daily Telegraph lunched in the Border Regiment Mess on several times after this meeting! Harrison added:
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