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5th Dragoon Guards

Military History Army Dragoon Regiments 5th Dragoon Guards

 JOHN NORWOOD  (Second Lieutenant, noe Lieutenant)  5^th (Princess Charlotte of Wales) Dragoon Guards                On October 30^th 1899, a small patrol under Lieutenant Norwood was sent out from Ladysmith, and, coming under a heavy fire from a large body of the enemy posted on a ridge, were retiring at ful speed, when a trooper fell from his saddle, wounded.  In spite of the rain of bullets directed at him, Lieutenant Norwood rode back for three hundred yards to the fallen man, dismounted, and carried him on his back until he placed him out of range, when he mounted his horse, which he had, during his gallant act, led with his free hand, and rejoined his troop.  Lieutenant John Norwood, son of J. Norwood, Esq., of Pembury odge, near Beckenham, was educated at Abbey School, Rugby and Oxford, and entered the 5^th Dragoon Guards February 8^th 1899.

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