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Frank Nugent, who had been badly shot and looked Kke 

 being captured with his small body of men. The wound 

 gave him a good deal of trouble, though he appeared to make 

 light of it. He returned invalided in the summer of 1901 

 and received the Queen's Medal with clasps for ' Cape Colony,' 

 ' Orange Eiver Colony,' ' Transvaal ' and ' 1901.' ' Jimmy,' 

 his poodle, and a great favourite with every one, went through 

 the campaign with his master and used to wear medals with 

 the correct clasps on his collar. . . . 



" Gosling was not quite thirty-four years old when he died. 



" The sad news reached home in the middle of July 1906, 

 and on the 24th of that month the Church of Farnham, in the 

 Park at Hassobury, was the scene of a simple memorial 

 service, and it was easy to see how much he was beloved by 

 all his brother's tenantry and neighbours of all classes. 

 His servant Rifleman C. Dymock was present and a brother 

 officer, who has endeavoured in these few lines to do justice 

 to the memory of one who combined at once the finest 

 quahties of a soldier and a sportsman. The son of a Master 

 of Hounds, Mr. Robert Goshng being for many years Master 

 of the Puckeridge, Ben Gosling was a bold and resolute 

 horseman, and was devoted to fox-hunting, and in his will 

 left a bequest to the Hunt Servants' Benefit Society, as 

 well as to the Rifleman's Aid. 



" The portrait we give * was taken just before he started 

 for Africa. The hkeness we can look at, but regiment and 

 friends alike will miss the genial smile of one of the best and 

 bravest of fellows that ever Hved." 



Maurice White. 



* See frontispiece to this volume. 



