CHARD, JOHN ROUSE MERRIOTT British soldier, was born at Boxhill, near Plymouth, on Dec. 21, 1847, and in 1868 entered the Royal Engineers. In 1878 Lieut. Chard was ordered to South Africa to take part in the Zulu War, and was stationed at the small post of Rorke's Drift to protect the bridges across the Buffalo river and some sick men and stores. Here, with Lieut. Gonville Bromhead (1856-91) and 8o men of the 2nd 24th Foot, he conducted the gallant defence of Rorke's Drift against 3,00o Zulus, which saved Natal from a Zulu invasion. The gallantry of Chard and Bromhead was rewarded with the V.C. and immediate promotion to the rank of captain and brevet major. Chard was made colonel in 1897. He died the same year at Hatch-Beauchamp, near Taunton, on Nov. 1.