[Gutenberg 46095] • Private Journal of Henry Francis Brooke / Late Brigadier-General Commanding 2nd Infantry Brigade, Kandahar Field Force, Southern Afghanistan, from April 22nd to August 16th, 1880

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. From To Rt. Hon. Hugh Childers, M.P., War Office. Mrs. Brooke, Ashbrooke, Brookeboro'. I deeply regret to have to announce to you that General Brooke fell in a sortie from Kandahar on the Sixteenth of August. Pray accept my most sincere condolences on the terrible loss to yourself and to the country. Lt.-General Sir Henry Ponsonby presents his compliments to Mrs. Brooke. He has been commanded to convey the Queen's sincere and earnest sympathy with her in her grief, and Her Majesty's sorrow at the loss sustained by Mrs. Brooke in the recent action near Kandahar, where the Queen has had to lament the death of so many brave officers and men. The accounts which Her Majesty has received of BrigadierGeneral Brooke only increase her deep regret that she should have been deprived of the services of so gallant and worthy a soldier. From Her Majesty the Queen. Balmoral Castle, August 27th, 1880. From To H. E. The Governor, Mrs. Brooke, Bombay. Ashbrooke, Brookeboro'. Viceroy desires me to convey to you his deep sympathy, in which I beg to join. It is reported your gallant Husband was killed while trying to carry off Captain Cruikshank when wounded. From Major General Dillon. Horse Guards, Pall Mall, London, August 30th, 1880. My dear Mrs. Brooke, I have waited for some days before carrying out the wishes of the Duke of Cambridge, received from Kissengen, to convey to you by letter an expression of His Royal Highness' deep sympathy with you in your great affliction, and his sense of the loss which the service has sustained by the death of a gallant soldier and distinguished officer. In alluding to the sad event in the last letter received from Germany only to-day, His Royal Highness continues--" I am too sorry for General Brooke's "death, ...