"The late Lieutenant-Colonel Rocke," Inverness Courier, Jan. 26, 1904, p. 4e.   "Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Rocke, late of the 72nd, now the 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, died at a private nursing home in London on Thursday from heart failure followed upon injuries received in a cab accident in Jermyn Street on the evening of December 10. The evidence given at the inquest showed that Colonel Rocke, who was near-sighted, started to cross Jermyn Street, but, seeing a cab coming, turned to retrace his steps. Before he could regain the pavement the horse's head struck and knocked him down, a thigh bone and an arm being broken and other injuries inflicted by the fall. Colonel Rocke served with the 72nd Highlanders in the Crimea from June 13, 1855, including the expedition to Kertch, the siege and fall of Sevastopol, and the attack of June 18. At the close of the war he received the brevet of major for his services. During the Indian Mutiny he served at the siege and capture of Kotah, and was present with the leading column of assault on March 30 1855; and he commanded a wing of his regiment in the pursuit of the Gwalior rebels in Rajputana and at the battle of Bunass, and also a field force at the action of Pertabghur, receiving mention in dispatches. He was in his 80th year."