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with another party which had been sent out by the Sherwood 

 Foresters under Lieutenant Mellor. Mr. Inghs having located 

 some wounded, asked this party to come and fetch them in ; 

 whilst they were doing this, shelling began again and Mr. Inglis 

 was hit in the leg. He, Mellor, and a stretcher-bearer named 

 Stretton, of the Sherwood Foresters, got into a shell-hole, and 

 the latter began to bandage the wound, when another shell 

 landed in the shell-hole, killing Mr. Inglis and Stretton, and 

 dangerously wounding Mellor, who died two days later. 



Sergeant Rogers, who was with Mellor's party, was able 

 to give this accurate account ; he had hidden in another shell- 

 hole and at once went to see what had happened, and found that 

 without doubt the brave Padre had been instantaneously killed. 

 Rogers, who was in the Sherwood Foresters, has since been 

 killed in action. 



In a letter from Mr. Talbot he says : 



" I have got the spot marked on the map and have reported 

 it to the brigade. A big burial party was at work all over the 

 ground last night ; I think it is fairly certain they will have 

 carried out the burial. If there is any doubt I and the brigade 

 staff will not rest till we have seen to the burial. It is not an 

 easy place to get to, as it is often shelled, but it shall be managed. 



" I cannot overstate the sorrow there is to-day in the 

 brigade ; they simply loved him, so said several officers and men 

 in the Shropshires to me to-day. He has fallen doing gallant 

 work for others. . . . You will, I believe, feel the glory of such 

 a death met while saving others ; yours, ours, is the loss, not 

 his. He is mourned throughout the division. 



" You must not blame anyone. The brigadier and staff 

 were absorbed in the fighting ; they had tried to restrain him, 

 but he could not bear the thought of the men lying out wounded 

 hour after hour thinking they were forsaken and forgotten. 



" He has glorified his profession and his Master. I hope to 

 find out where the grave is and mark it with a cross, but the 

 conditions of this awful battlefield are such that it is very 

 difficult to do all that ought to be done to honour those who 

 have fallen." 



September 23. — " I have been to-day to the spot where on 

 Tuesday last some of the 1st Cheshires buried the rector's body. 



