262 FROM THE NIGER TO THE NILE 



[Note. — The following record appeared in the February number, 

 1905, of the Household Brigade Magazine.'] 



THE LATE CAPTAIN CLAUD ALEXANDER 



It is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the sad 

 and premature death of Captain Claud Alexander, Scots Guards, 

 which took place on November 13 of last year, in Northern Nigeria, 

 where he was engaged in a scientific and surveying expedition. He 

 had already surveyed over eight hundred square miles of country, 

 when liis untimely death from enteric fever put an end, for the present, 

 to a work wliich will probably be of the greatest service to his country. 



Captain Alexander was the youngest son of Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Boyd Alexander, late of the Rifle Brigade, and joined the Scots Guards 

 in 1898, was promoted heutenant in 1900, and captain in 1904. He 

 served throughout the South African War from 1899 to 1902, and 

 was wounded at Belmont, for his gallantry on which occasion he was 

 mentioned in Lord Methuen's despatches. He received the Queen's 

 medal with five clasps, and the King's with two ; he was also in 

 possession of the diploma of the Royal Geographical Society. 



A most promising and popular officer, he dies regretted by liis 

 comrades of all ranks, and our deepest sympathies are with his relatives 

 in their bereavement. 



A memorial service, held in the Guards' Chapel on the 17th inst., 

 was largely attended by the officers, non-commissioned officers, and 

 men of the Scots Guards. 



