Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn7 November 1900
Cockburn leads cavalrymen protecting the retreating guns at Leliefontein and later receives the Victoria Cross.
Canada · Warfare / Boer War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Cockburn leads cavalrymen protecting the retreating guns at Leliefontein and later receives the Victoria Cross.
Holland keeps his Colt machine gun firing against the Boer advance and carries the weapon away when its carriage horse is shot.
Turner helps protect the Canadian rearguard during the withdrawal at Leliefontein and later receives the Victoria Cross.
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