.MTMwNA.MTA1NTEy

page number 70 Sept - and learned that I hadn't gone as far as where W is now said the firing had been. But from the present appearances it seems as if these two men had been killed: it was too late however to go out for them tonight. 21st. Immediately after Reveille 25 men went out to the spot pointed out by Whalen and found the bodies of the missing soldiers. They had accidentally been waylaid and fired on while passing a large rock. From appearances the Corpl had been killed by the first shot but Fitzpatrick had run about an hundred yards and then been killed, and horribly mutilated, having his skull crushed in and a number of arrows shot into him.