... Mesurier and Winifred Marshall, Kensington, Lieutenant Richard John J. Jelf, R.E., died at sea on his homeward voyage from South Africa. He was the 'eldest son of Colonel R. H. Jelf, C.M.G., commanding Royal Engineers, Eastern District, and was born January ...

... into the 6th Dragoon Guards, and received a lieutenant's commission in 1899. Soon after the outbreak of the war he was ordered to South Africa, and at the end of his first month's campaigning he was captured by the Boers while making a heroic attempt ...

... THE HOSPITAL SCANDALS IN SOUTH AFRICA. The Hospital Commission are not allowing the grass to grow under their feet, so far as covering ground goes. They have visited Wyn berg and Maitland hospitals, also the hospital ship Simla, and are touring among ...

... WAR AND THE WOUNDED. The lot of the wounded in warfare-- even in modern warfare such as is being waged so strenuously in South Africa at the present moment-- cannot be anything but a hard one. It has been wisely ordained that the chief work of the Medical ...

... THE WAR. AGAINST THE MOSQUITO. The importance of the crusade against the malarial mosquito which is now being carried on by British effort in West Africa and by state effort in the United States can hardly be over estimated. We have therefore asked Dr ...

... THE WAR. DEMONSTRATION AT THE GUILDHALL. A demonstration by the citizens of London in support of the Government's policy in South Africa took place in the Guildhall on July 10. The Lord Mayor presided. A resolution was adopted expressing complete confidence ...

... MORE VICTIMS OF THE WAR. Once more the fortunes of war in South Africa seem to incline in favour of the British Forces, and one may well hope that the long lists of killed and wounded officers and men will soon become sad memories of the past, and that ...

... continue to be deluded as to the course of the war. Then, again, the Commander-in-Chief has greatly relaxed, if not entirely abolished, the censoring of letters as aji officer writes from the front: The war correspondent will hold a much freer and more ...

... resistance, the war proper is really done. There are manv refugee Boers in Pretoria and we are feeding a thousand of their women and children. De Wet is rumoured to be about to surrender to-morrow (Satur day), thus rounding off a full year of war but then rumour ...

... twenty years of age, enlisted as a trooper in Lord Lovatt's Corns of Highland Scouts in February, 1900, and proceeded to South Africa. He was much injured by his horse falling on him in July while scouting for General Rundle, in company with other six Scouts ...

... plainly see and welcome. A remarkable forecast of the war was made by Robert Knox, the distinguished Scots anatomist, in his Races of Men published in 1850. He wrote as follows The future of Africa is to a certain extent wrapped in the destinies of the ...

... impressive reminiscences of the war that we have seen is provided by Underwood and Underwood of Red Lion Square, in the form of a stereoscopic apparatus of simple construction. It consists of a stereoscope and a box of seventy-two war pictures in a khaki-covered ...