INDENTMajor Charles Harold Longfield Beatty D.S.O. (1870-1917), the celebrated race horse trainer and rider (see 'The V.C. and D.S.O.' Vol. 2) entered the 6th. Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was appointed Captain, 1894; served in the South African War, 1900 as Staff Officer to Brigadier General Alderson and took part with the Mounted Infantry in the advance from Bloemfontein to Pretoria and then to Koomati Poort (D.S.O. 27.9.1901); he served in the First World War from 1914-1915 as A.D.C. to General Alderson while commanding the Canadian Expeditionary Force (Mentioned in Despatches); while serving with the Mounted Infantry, was severely wounded at St. Eloi, April 1916 when, on a personal reconnaissance, he was buried by a shell burst -- after being dug out, he refused to retire, although severely wounded, until he had made his report -- his shattered arm was later amputated; George V was distressed to hear that Beatty had been wounded and sympathised with him in his misfortune (see Buckingham Palace letter reproduced in book); in England his wounds were further aggravated by a fall from his horse and on 18 April, 1917, he failed to recover from an operation and died on the table