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The late Surgeon Landon, killed at Majuba Hill, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

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The late Surgeon Landon, killed at Majuba Hill, 1881. 'Officer Killed In The Transvaal. Among those whose deaths are most recently added to the lamentable list of the slain in Sir George Colley's operations against the Boers, was Surgeon Arthur Jermyn Landon, who received his mortal wound in the conflict of Sunday, the 27th February, on Majuba Hill. He died shortly afterwards, in the camp at Mount Prospect. This gentleman was born on June 29, 1851. He entered the Medical Department of the Army and became a surgeon in August, 1878. He is the second medical officer who has died of wounds received in this action'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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