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... attend to him. While thus engaged, with the Bed Cross flag flying over him, the Boers approached to within 100 yards, and fired • volley, shooting the doctor through the stomach. The Bone then took everything of value off both the doctor and De Rougemon ...
... Assistant Adjutant-General of Cavalry on the Staff, and then went to Headuarters as A.A.G. in 1895. He remained at the horse Guards for two years, when he was transferred to the South-Eastern District as colonel on the Staff and brigadier iu command of the ...
... with hie brigade, has occupied W•eirfal on the railway 16 Wee north of this; in an engagement be had with Übe enemy to-day fire of hi. Ifoonsaary were wounded. AVOCET 1111, SI bet Yeah deism ecespied Oliphant% N a,N is the lirsialkabrag. ea Uri 17th inst ...
... rearguard of about 1000 men in front of us. These we have forced back throughout day under considerable diZculties, as they fired all the grass on top of Beg so they retreated, and, wind being unfavourable to us, we were scarcely able to see at all. I halted ...
... the hostilities that occurred after the Crimean War, when the British Fleet bombarded and took Taira, the spot at which the guards of 'the Powers were landed a few days ago, and when Pekin was invaded and forced to surrender, bluejackets played important ...
... to agree fully to the ate, but to ends' roar to get the best terms, particularly as regards limiting the number of Legation guards and limiting the number of military posts along the line of railway to as few as possible. The envoys are also instructed ...
... pair of boas when the Boers came. We laughed at the.way in which 300 of the Port Elisabeth Volunteers, namely, Prince Alfred Guards, behaved themselves on 25-2-00. (Tommy.—Please teach them better manners and ways of Aghting.) To Tommy Atkins,—We are going ...
... returned the fire with the effect Nap had foreseen. In less than a minute a plunging and confused heap of kicking horses and dying men effectually barred their comrades' advance. The Insurgents behind the barricade scaled die heap. and fired with comparative ...
... 11110111100 IS the column captured from the Boers some cattle, several waggons and trek oxen, and about % prisoners. Cannon firing is continually being heard. Vicksburg is deserted and all the British residents are coming into Basutoland. All the grain ...
... with clasp and the fourth class of the Medjidie and the Khedive Star. He served in the Nile Expedition in 1885-11 with the Guards camel regiment, and was present at the actions of Abu Klea and El Guhat, in reeottnition of which he received two clasps. ...
... ers. TM gentleman inrestion was •by • few members of the Io Coming back from Woolmarans flied we were doing the slimmed guard, and about Ave mile' out came across Jacky (the Boers) in strong force and in strong pneition—thick bush and • long ragged ...
... deed. It came about thee : He, with Sergeant Thomas and Trooper Norman Biggs (the well-known footballer), formed the rear-guard, when they sighted about a score of Boers trying to cnt off their rear flaw; party, so they raced to a kopje with a view to ...