"on 3 september 1915, near maktau, kenya, during a mounted infantry engagement, the enemy were so close that it was impossible to get the more severely wounded away. lieutenant dartnell, who was himself being carried away wounded in the leg, seeing the situation, and knowing that the enemy's black troops murdered the wounded, insisted on being left behind, in the hope of being able to save the lives of other wounded men. he gave his own life in a gallant attempt to save others."