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| 'On the 7th Nov 1900 during the action at Komati River, South Africa, Lt Cockburn, with a handful of men, at a most critical moment, held off the enemy to enable the guns to get away. To do so he had to sacrifice himself and his party, all of whom were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. He himself was slightly wounded.' Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn was born in Toronto on 19th Nov 1867. He reached the rank of major in the Royal Canadian Dragoons. He died at the age of 45 at Maple Creek, Saskatchewan on 13th July 1913 and was buried in St James's Cemetary Toronto |
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