Can we identify this man?
* Assuming that the story is true.
"This story was told by its hero at a dinner given at the National Liberal Club to a volunteer officer who is going to the front. He is an Australian, and he left his home with the express intention of joining a volunteer regiment for service in South Africa. He had never been in England before, and he had not anticipated the possibility of refusal. After his failure he returned disconsolately to his hotel. There he met two young Welshmen who had come to London for a few days as a preface to proceeding to the Cape. How had they succeeded where he had failed? "Oh," they explained, "we are going out with the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry." "Where is Montgomeryshire?" he asked. "In Wales," was the reply. "How do you get to Wales?" The information was at once vouchsafed him. "Then," said he, "I'm off by the night mail." And he was. And now he is a duly accepted member of the Montgomeryshire Cavalry. The National Liberal diners heartily cheered the gallant Australian.
Daily Chronicle."
The Welsh Gazette, Thursday 25th January 1900
