Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Coolness Under Fire. [ARTICLE]

Coolness Under Fire.

If no man is a hero to his valet it cannot be said that Sir Redvers Buller was not a hero to his orderly. Corporal George Ashley rode behind his chief from the time he arrived at “the front" and returned with him to England. Corporal Ashley, who belonged to the military mounted police of Natal, entertains unbounded admiration for Sir Redvers. He cites as an instance of the general’s coolness under fire that, when a shell passed only a few feet away, he turned to his orderly and, with a grim smile, quietly said: “Did you get that?" It is a great thing in a commander’s favor when one and all who have followed him feel so stwag an attachment for him.