At the Battle of Colenso in 1899, Colonel Brooke, of the Connaught（1）Rangers, was shot, and some of his men bore him from the field.
On the way, that slushing thud which is the noise made by a bullet told someone had been hit. "Who?" asked the colonel. "Begorra,（2） sir, it's me," said one of the stretcher-bearers; "it's in the neck." "Put me down," said the colonel. "No, sir, I'm well able to carry you to a place of safety," replied the stretcher-bearer. He did, and when he laid the stretcher down, the bullet, which had passed clean through his neck, had caused such a loss of blood that he fell in a dead faint.
一八九九年科倫索之役，英軍科諾特（1）遊騎兵團上校布魯克中槍，由手下擡離戰場。
擡到半路，子彈如擊泥漿的「砰」一聲，顯示有人被擊中。布魯克問：「是誰中槍？」一個擡擔架兵回答：「天啊，是我，給射中脖子，上校。」布魯克說：「把我放下來吧。」那擡擔架兵說：「上校，不用放下，我還可以把你擡到安全的地方。」他果然擡到終點，把布魯克放下，隨卽倒在地上，昏厥過去。子彈洞穿了他的脖子，他因此失血過多。
（1）科諾特是愛爾蘭西北部一地區。
（2）Begorra是愛爾蘭人用語，等於by God，一般用來加強語氣，表達驚訝的情緒。