Show OENEHAL WOLSELEY NEW COMMANDERIN CHIEF OF UltlTISH ARMY lie ttiin IIU lint Spur nl the Mimn roils Siege or llehutlspnl l i Wa Left for Ilesl nn III Irlil till 1ref rr lpwsl d JOUST Is I a memorable memo-rable month for fBtf li I J ori1 WoI8OIr 1 RlV HTIi J August ot the pre VflBfc = s enL oar tins seen yMnl lira designated l sue I ull IVT3 H lessor to tho Uuko of Cambrldgo as Commander In Chief ot the llrlllsh J army and In August Aug-ust 18S3 his gallantry gal-lantry In the trenches before Sebastopol gained for him the Legion of Honor from trance and Ibo order of tho MedJIdle from Turkey It was on August 31 lf 55 that Wolselc then n captain of the Nineteenth Nine-teenth Foot nerving as an assistant engineer performed the feat of arms which won him the two decoration Ruder > Rud-er nearly cost him his life for ho was so badly wounded that his body was drawn aside for burial Tho story of tho wounding Is I told by General Sir Evelyn Wood In sn arllcle on Tho Crimea In 1854 and 1S9I It Is I worth repealing not only for the Interest In-terest that attaches to Ills annltcrsary but because It brings out In distinct colors the surprising difference between ausiiiAL WOLSELUY = trained veterans and raw recruits oven In a British army where bravery Is I always al-ways looked for and ono man Is I assumed as-sumed to bo about as good as another The regiments that Lord Raglan car lItll I rued to limo Crimea In September t 1851 were largely composed of old soldiers of sturdy physique and dauntless valor These were the men whoso personal I prowess won against great odds the soldiers battle of Inkerman lly the summer of 1855 this splendid material had been pretty much ospended The hardy veterans were dead or Invalided and the troops who camo out from England to take Iholr placo prated loo often ot very Inferior quality They were no longer says Sir Hyelyn Woodmen Wood-men In the prime of life but weedy boys and on tho 2Glh of August when a Hussion shell bursting ID the fifth parallel killed a lino soldier his comrades com-rades not only retired but refused to return to retrieve tho body The same lack of valor was shown by a Ilrltlsh working party composed of nowly arrived soldiers on tho night when Captain Wolr ey got his wound A small body of Italians had made a sortie against tho Ilrltlsh advanced works on the extreme right whom Wolsctey was stationed There was no covering party at band and the working party fell back In confusion before onethird of their numbers In spite of repeated attempts of Captain i Wolseley to rally them Tho Htu I clans destroyed some fifty yards of tho sap and then fell back to the Dockyard Dock-yard ravine from which they kept up an Incessant fire A Illusion battery known as tho Jcrvala battery also played on tho head ot the sap and In a short time Woleeleya llttlo party had twelve casualties out of sixtyfive moo The gallant Captain was at work repairing re-pairing damages at tha head of the tap under a shower ot bullets round shot and shell when he received Ibo wound which DO nearly brought his career to n premature close Hero Is the description of Ibo affair Bitch by Sir Evelyn Wood Wolsiley was on hli kpoce holding the front gabion Into which a sergeant I working also In a kneeling position threw earth over his captain shoulder Tho gallon was half tilled when It was I struck In the center by a round shot from the Gcrvals battery Wolioloy was terribly wounded and Indeed the sergeant ser-geant pulled his body bock without I I ceremony Intending to bury It In camp u when he found the life ot hili om or was not extlof nhle era 0 injuries In Ihe upper tsve n law tot e from UL gabion was run lnroilllh hl cheek and Jaw to the neck where It lodged the runt wrist nis smashed and a serious seri-ous wound Inflicted on the skin Strong to say lie dill duly after II rapid UBiorary recovery till tho armies rtembnrkwl the skin wound becoming more Mrlons later when the bono begin to exfoliate |