I have not seen him since we entered the square." "Have any of you seen Mr.Anstruther ?" Captain Mallett asked, turning to some soldiers standing near.
"He is lying over there, sir," one of the men said.

"He was just in front of me when the Pandies fired that volley at us as we came out of the streets, and he pitched forward and fell like a stone.

I think that he was shot through the head, sir." They went across to the spot.

The ensign lay there shot through the brain.

Four or five soldiers lay round him; one of them was dead, the others more or less seriously wounded.
"Sound the assembly," Captain Mallett said, as he turned away sadly, to a bugler.