ciroferrara

Posts : 206 Join date : 2010-10-07 Age : 27 Location : exeter
 | Subject: Godwin-Austen Wounding and Jacket Fri May 19, 2017 1:46 pm | |
| How was Captain Godwin-Austen wounded? I've read in various publications He was shot accidentally or was stabbed during the ninth frontier war. I have seen the Jacket in person with a big rent up the back but stupidly didn't take a photo!
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ymob

Posts : 2191 Join date : 2010-10-22 Location : France
 | Subject: Re: Godwin-Austen Wounding and Jacket Fri May 19, 2017 1:50 pm | |
| Shot accidentally by one of his own men. But sorry, I don't have the testimony at hand.
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xhosa2000

Posts : 1203 Join date : 2015-11-24
 | Subject: Re: Godwin-Austen Wounding and Jacket Fri May 19, 2017 1:59 pm | |
| From the Frontier War Journal of Major John Crealock 1878.
As commander of B Company of his Battalion he served under Buller for a thrust into the Buffalo Poort and there was nearly killed when a soldier behind him accidentally fired his loaded rifle. |
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ciroferrara

Posts : 206 Join date : 2010-10-07 Age : 27 Location : exeter
 | Subject: Re: Godwin-Austen Wounding and Jacket Fri May 19, 2017 2:03 pm | |
| That's damned bad luck! I assume he survived? I've emailed the museum in Brecon for a photo Of the jacket.
Cheers Ciroferrara |
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SRB1965

Posts : 647 Join date : 2017-05-13 Age : 54 Location : Uttoxeter - the last place God made and he couldn't be bothered to finish it.....
 | Subject: Re: Godwin-Austen Wounding and Jacket Sat May 20, 2017 10:37 am | |
| - ciroferrara wrote:
- That's damned bad luck! I assume he survived?
I've emailed the museum in Brecon for a photo Of the jacket.
Cheers Ciroferrara
Yes, he survived but was probably very annoyed..... |
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ciroferrara

Posts : 206 Join date : 2010-10-07 Age : 27 Location : exeter
 | Subject: Re: Godwin-Austen Wounding and Jacket Sat May 20, 2017 8:13 pm | |
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1879graves

Posts : 2804 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
 | Subject: Re: Godwin-Austen Wounding and Jacket Sun Jun 10, 2018 10:32 am | |
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