The Boer War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Captain H. G. Bryant, Shropshire Light Infantry, of whom a fellow officer said, ‘I never met a man so absolutely without fear’. And signs of that fearlessness are apparent in Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Colvile’s despatch of 3 March 1900, in which he mentioned Bryant for ‘a special act of gallantry’ at Paardeberg in February 1900. So, too, in his final action near Ypres, when he was seriously wounded and taken prisoner after storming an enemy trench. Sadly, his wounds proved fatal, and he died five days later after having his right arm amputated.
