GENERAL MERCER'S DEATH.--Lieutenant Gooderham, the General's
aide-de-camp, now a prisoner in Germany, writes: "I was beside my
beloved general when he was killed. He lay on the battlefield for two
days, suffering from shell shock, until picked up by a German patrol.
He was first shocked by large shell, and I tried to get him away, but it
was impossible. He was shot through the leg, which was broken. He lay
on the field, in no pain, and next day was killed by shrapnel
instantly."
The General's body was found in the Armagh Wood and buried in a military
cemetery near Poperinghe, Sir Julian Byng and a large number of officers
attending the funeral.
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