Lord Ava, galloper to General Ian Hamilton, commanding the defences, was shot through the head early in the day, about six o'clock.

Sent forward with a message to the Light Horse, he was looking through glasses over a rock when the bullet took him.

While I write he is still alive, but given up.

A finer fellow never lived.

"You'd never take him for a lord," said an Irish sergeant, "he seems quite a nice gentleman." Equally sad was the loss of Colonel Dick-Cunyngham, of the Gordons.