Copy of letter to Mr Ince from William Walmsley relating to sketch of Gate Pa fight

Copy of Letter to Mr Ince

Tauranga

Sept 3/95

To Mr Ince,

I fulfil promise by sending rough sketch of Gate Pa fight, very roughly done but accurate.

The Note No 1 t [sic] was the company who disobeyed orders to take the retreating Maoris on the bayonet above and thus caused the panic by cross fire. The xxxxx are the cartridges the writer saw lying about, confirming the tack [?] you see the cross fire the stormers got. Note No 2 is the present [?] road the 110 gun punched out the soft subsoil as deep as axle of a waggon [sic], writer marched [unclear] it a short time after. Note No 3 is Walmsley's Folly - Big Brown of the R. A. carried the mortar over the swamp, it enfiladed the French and gave them pepper. The 110 percussion cap on nozzle was useless on the soft subsoil after first fire - in fact the less said about the Gate Pa the better.

Sd William Walmsley