Category: Biographies
With some who left for the War it was "roses, roses, all the way." For us, the scene was the square of St. John's Wood Barracks at 2 A.M. on the 3rd of February, a stormy winter's morning, with three inches of snow on the ground, and driving gusts of melting flakes lashing our...
_July 9._--A delicious, warm day. Reveillé at six. I am afraid it looks as if we were to be kept on this lonely hill-top for some time. It's true we deserve a rest, for we have...
11. Chapter 11_August 29._--Suddenly told we were all to go to Pretoria by train, railway being just open, it seems. I am disgusted with the slowness of my foot, and at being separated from t...
5. Chapter 5We were off for the front at last, and I shall now, making a few necessary alterations, transcribe my diary, as I wrote it from day to day and often hour to hour, under all sort...
6. Chapter 6_July 2._--Reveillé 5 A.M. Harnessed up, and afterwards marched out and joined a column of troops under General Paget. We have with us some Yorkshire Light Infantry, Munster Fus...
4. Chapter 4The railway north--Yesterday's start--Travelling made easy--Feeding horses--A menu--De Aar--A new climate--Naauwport--Over the frontier-- Bloemfontein--A fiasco--To camp again--...
10. Chapter 10[Footnote A: In this new campaign Paget's Brigade was, in conjunction with the forces of Baden-Powell, Plumer, and Hickman, to scour the district whose backbone is the railway l...
9. Chapter 9_August 2._--Reveillé at six. Harnessed up, and started out to join the brigade and its long column of prisoners, mounted on their ponies, and each leading another with a pack o...
1. Chapter 1With some who left for the War it was "roses, roses, all the way." For us, the scene was the square of St. John's Wood Barracks at 2 A.M. on the 3rd of February, a stormy winter...
8. Chapter 8_July 23._--Harnessed up at 4.30, and marched out in a raw, cold fog, all wet, but very cheerful. While halting at the _rendezvous_ to await our escort, there were great stories...
3. Chapter 3When I woke up on the morning of the 22nd of March, the legend "Piquetberg Road" was just visible on a big white board opposite the carriage. So this was our destination. There...
13. Chapter 13Ordered home--Back to the Battery--Good-bye to the horses--The charm of the veldt--Recent work of the Battery--Paget's farewell speech-- Hard-won curios--The last bivouac--Rober...
12. Chapter 12_September 18, continued._--At two we paraded again with our kits, and about a dozen of us marched off to the Rest camp, which is the next stage. Everything was very hurried, bu...
2. Chapter 2"_March 4._--_Sunday._--_Green Point Camp._--This is the first moment I have had to write in since last Tuesday. I am on picket, and writing in the guard-tent by a guttery lantern.
14. Chapter 14I am not going to describe the voyage in detail. Africa, with all it meant, was behind us, England was before, and the intervening time, monotonous though it was, passed quickly...