Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27584/pages/4981. Captain George Murray Rolland, Berbera-Bohotle Flying Column. On 22nd April 1903 after the action at Daratoleh, Somaliland, the rearguard got considerably behind the rest of the column. Captain Rolland and another captain, with four other men were with a fellow officer when he fell badly wounded and Captain Rolland ran back some 500 yards to get help while the others stayed with the casualty, endeavouring to keep off the enemy who were all round. This they succeeded in doing, and when the officer in charge of the column arrived they managed to get the wounded man on to a camel. He was, however, hit again and died immediately.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27584/pages/4981. Captain George Murray Rolland, Berbera-Bohotle Flying Column. On 22nd April 1903 after the action at Daratoleh, Somaliland, the rearguard got considerably behind the rest of the column. Captain Rolland and another captain, with four other men were with a fellow officer when he fell badly wounded and Captain Rolland ran back some 500 yards to get help while the others stayed with the casualty, endeavouring to keep off the enemy who were all round. This they succeeded in doing, and when the officer in charge of the column arrived they managed to get the wounded man on to a camel. He was, however, hit again and died immediately.