[To THE EDITOR OP THE "8rm - taros:] SIR, —" Pro Patria's "
letter in your last issue reminds me that it is nearly ten years since the day of Caesar's Camp and Wagon Hill at Ladysmith. I have often thought that the brave action of Lieutenant Digby-Jones, R.E., who was killed on that occasion, ought to be commemorated. If one may accept Captain Mahan's account, Digby-Jones, by lead- ing the charge which swept away the Boers who were just on the point of establishing themselves within rifle range of Ladysmith, practically saved Ladysmith, and perhaps also the British Empire. Colonel Parke and the charge of the Devons have been fitly commemorated in verse in your columns, and since then in many places ; but might one not say of Digby-Jones's action that
"The Empire's fate that livelong day Hung on that narrow marge ;
Till Victory swore that she would not stay With the men that would not charge" ?
Anyhow, I would suggest Digby-Jones's name as one example to your correspondent "Pro Patria."—I am, Sir, &e.,
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