30 OCTOBER 1909, Page 14

BRITISH HEROES.

[To Tut EDII-CIT Tr? SPECTAT011.1

Sin,—Here is yet another deed for "Pro Patrite" On Jure 18th, 1815, at Hougoumont a shell fell among a group of officers. Captain Colquit, of the First (now the Grenadier) Guards, a man of great stature and strength, took it up, carried it to where it could do no harm, and before it burst returned unscathed to his comrades.—I am, Sir, &c.,

C. MUNRO.