3-070-934 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Lieutenant E. O. H. Wilkinson, 1881. British soldier and cricketer killed '...during the recent campaign against the Boers of the Transvaal on the Natal border...In the late General Sir George Colley's despatch to the War Office, after his second disastrous action...at Schain's Hoogte and the Ingogo river, that unfortunate commander said: "The third battalion of the 60th rifles has suffered a still heavier loss in the death of its Adjutant, Lieutenant Wilkinson, after having distinguished himself through the engagement by his coolness and gallantry, volunteering for every difficult and dangerous task. He was drowned in crossing the Ingogo river after returning to the battle-field with assistance for the wounded. Lieutenant Edward Obert Hindley Wilkinson...was of singularly winning disposition and manners, distinguished in all manly games, and excellent adjutant, and a most promising officer"...He served during the Zulu War, and was present at the battle of Ginghilovo and the relief of Ekowe'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.