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Pholo fyl \_A'nighl LIEUT.-GENERAL THOMAS KELLY-KENNY, C.B., COMMANDING THE SIXTH DIVISION had a brilliant record to his credit before he sailed South. He entered the Army as an ensign in the 2nd Foot at the age of eighteen, and fought his way step by step until nine-and- thirty years later— in 1897— he was made a Major-General. In i860 he served in China, being present at the action of Sinho and the taking of Tang-Ku and Taku Forts. The close ot the sixties saw him working hard in Abyssinia, in command of a Di\Ision of the Transport Train, being mentioned in dispatches and receiving a medal, as was the case in his first campaign. He did not assume the surname of Kenny until 1874, since when he had not seen any active service until embarking for the present campaign, though some important home commands fallen to his lot. He was Assistant-Adjutant-General of the Northern District from '87 to '89, when he took command of the North-Eastern District. Then followed a spell of work at headquarters, and from '96 to '97 he commanded the Infantr)' Brigade at Aldershot. Before he went to the front he was Inspector-General of Auxiliary Forces and Recruiting 226 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET May 26, 1900

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the oft-repeated December 31st, i with ; Lieut. We have pleasure in complying -General, July 26th, 1883 ; otir readers by prese?iting General, r 28th, F"ield-Marshal, request of some hundreds of Novembe 1890 ; and them with a portrait of L^ord Roberts, V. C. , who forms May 25th, 1895 He served throughout the Indian the subject of our double-page illus- Mutiny, commanded the Kabul tration this week. We trust that Field Force from 1879 to 1880, our readers will appreciate this afterwards commanding the souvenir of the Commander-in- Kabul-Kandahar Field Force. Chief of the Forces in South In October, 1880, he commanded Africa, and that it will be the in Southern Afghanistan, then means of familiarising his kindly followed the command-in-chief at features to many who have not had Madras, while from November, the privilege of seei?ig him in the 1885, to April, 1893, he was Com- flesh. That he may always be mander-in-Chief in India, during successful in all he utidertakes, which period he practically re- whether in a civil or military modelled our Indian .Army. On capacity, is, we feel sure, the heart- October ist, 1895, he became felt -wish of all of us. Commander-in-Chief of the Forces Frederick Sleigh, first Baron in Ireland, an appointment which Roberts of Kandahar and Water- he gave up last December to take ford, derived his title from his the supreme command of the services in Afghanistan and from operations in South Africa. It the long connection of his family was on May 17th, 1869, that he with the Irish city. The gallant married Nora Henrietta, daughter little can writeangloboerwar.comthe of Captain Bews, of 73rd Foot. Field-Marshal the following remarkably long string His services make a long list. of letters after his name : —V. C, He went through the entire siege P.C, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., and capture of Delhi, being G.C.I.E., D.C.L., LL.D. He wounded on July 14th, 1857, and was born at Cawnpore in India having his horse shot under him on September 30th, 1832, his on September 14th. In the action father being General Sir Abraham of Bulandshahr his horse was Roberts, G.C.B., and his mother shot, but he came successfully Isabella, daughter of Major through Aligarh, Agra, Kanauj Abraham Bunbur}'. He was edu- (his horse was again wounded) cated at Eton, Sandhurst and and Bantharra. He served Addiscombe, and has published throughout the operations con- two books. The Rise of Wellington nected with the relief of Lucknow, appeared in 1895, and Forty-one was at the battle of Cawnpore, Years in Lndia— his autobiography which resulted in the defeat of the —three years ago. Dublin made (jwalior contingent, in the action him an LL.D. in 1880, Oxford a of Khudaganj and the re-occupa- D.C.L. in 1881, and Cambridge tion of Fategarh, tiie storming of and Edinburgh an LL.D. in 1893; Mainganj, the capture of Umbeyla besides which he has received the and the destruction of Malka, the Freedom of the cities of London, Abyssinian Expedition of 1867 Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, 68, the Lushai Expedition ot Newcastle - on - Tyne, Dundee, 1871 — 72, the capture of the Walerford, Cardiff and Chester- Kholel villages and the attack on fisld, and the Royal boroughs of Murtlang range, and commanded Inverness, Wick and Dunbar. countless successful reconnais- It was on December 12th, 1851, sances and attacks. that he became a Second-Lieu- " Bobs" commanded the Kabul tenant in the Bengal Artillery, Field Force at the battle of and his rise in the Army was as Charasia, the capture of the city follows : — Lieutenant, June 3rd, of Kabul, and throughout the

1857 ; Captain, November 12th, operations in and around Sherpur

i860 ; Brevet-Major, November between December Sth and 24th, in 13th, i860; Brevet-Lieut. -Colonel, A Patriotic Nobleman khaki : Tlie Earl of 1879, while as commander of the .'\ugust15th, 1868; Brevet-Colonel, Lonsdale, who is serving at the front as a Katsul-Kandahar Field Force he captain with the Imperial Yeomanry. (Photo January 30th, 1875; Majo;-Gcn., by Russell and Sons) was specially detailed to procec d —

228 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET May 26, 1900 from Kabul to the relief of Kaiiduhar— the famous O, 'e's little, but fie's wise march which set the seal ; to his reputation. 'E's—a terror for his size, holds the ' He Mutiny medal with clasps for Delhi, An '(' — does— not— advertise. the Relief of Lucknow and the Siege of Lucknow, Do yer, Bobs ? besides tlie Indian Frontier medal with clasps for Umbej-hi, Lusliai and Burma, the Abyssinian medal, As regards the income-tax, the public are not paying anything the Afghan War medal with clasps for Peivvar, Kotal, like the amounts exacted during the Crimea'ii War. Charasia, Shcrpur and Kandahar, and the Kabul- The figures then were ii^d. and is. 4d. in the pound, Kandahar bronze star. He received the thanks of both while the rate now is but 8d. After the Russian War the rates were Houses of Parliament on August 4th, 1879, and May 5th, dropped to sd. and yd.— the first being on salaries 1881, and has on several occasions been thanked by the between ^100 and £,^50 and tin- second on salaries Government of India. He was mentioned in no fewer above £^150. In .Spain the extra taxation, owing to late than twenty-three dispatches before the campaign in the war with America, is being fiercel}' resented. Afghanistan. He is an enthusiastic cyclist and is very fond of hunting also. President Krljger is to be presented by some German As for Tommy's opinion of his beloved leader, we sympathisers with a sword of the finest steel, adorned

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* I'm off " to St. Helena in the morning : Commandant and Mrs. Cronje leaving the special train at Simon's Town under escort to embark on H.M.S. Doris, (leneral Pretyman is marching just behind the two Tommies in the foreground, and the great Boer vecht'S^efierat is holding his hat on with his left hand. (Photo by F. Mackay)

cannot do better than quote a couple of verses from i with texts and emblems. It will, doubtless, amuse (he Rudyard Kipling's fine " Fightin' Bobs," which first old man as he spends his declining years in a foreign appeared in the Pall Mall Magazine of December, 1893 : country. The French are also going to give Cronje a sword of honour, and the hilt will be formed of a Boer There's a little red-faced man. warrior throttling the British lion ! If Mr. Sanger will Which is Bobs ! take his menagerie to St. Helena, it is possible that Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can— ' " Cronje may be able to give a few ' sittings to the artist. Our Bobs !

If it bucks or kicks or rears, In January, 1898, Prince Alexander of Teck paid a 'E can sit for twenty years, visit to Pretoria, -where he was received with much With a smile round both 'is ears courtesy by Dr. Leyds, who introduced him to Mr. Can't yer, Bobs ? Kruger. The Prince is now in South Africa with Lord ** * * Roberts, so when Pretoria is reached he ought not to What 'e does not know o' war. require another introduction ! The new Duke of Teck General Bobs, and a third brother. Prince Francis, are also serving at You can arst the shop next door— the front. One of the Tecks was in charge of the con'/oy Can't they, Bobs ? lost at Thaba N'chu last March. .

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The New Zealand Boers tried to give tlic Rouf^h Riders, whosailed British the signal to re- for Durban in the good tire, and part of .Sergeant ship Kniglit Templar on Baker's men were about February 17th, have ren- to do so in company with dered the Empire yeo- a party of the Durham man service since ihey regiment when he rallied set foot on Soutli African the men and charged the soil, and we are pleased Boers with the bayonet, to present our readers driving them back. He with the portraits which was thanked by the appear on this page of officers afterwards for two of the men who saving the position, and played a prominent part the next morning he was in the raising and equip- taken before the com- ment of the splendid manding officer, who corps. "In olden days shook hands with him in England," wrote Mr. and said he was proud (}. Stead, " each town to have such a non-com- raised a regiment. Surely missioned officer in the it will not be a great battalion. A patriotic Colonist, Mr. William Sergeant The moving spirit in the raising of Keece. Mayor of Christchurch, strain on our loyalty if Baker says that Majuba the New Zealand Rough Riders: New Zealand, and Chairman of f'; ^lead, of Ch.ist- each province in New Day was a dav never to -^^'- *^™''S« the Executive Conmilttee of the ' , c . 'i .1 church Canterbury War Fund, which Zealand equips a troop be forgotten by either raised over ;^io,ooo for the equip- of fifty light horse. My British or Boer soldiers. It was just as if someone ment of 250 New Zealand Rough Riders proposal would be to pro- was whispering "Give them Majuba." The Artil- vide hardy rough riders." ler}', and especially the big guns, seemed as if they And admirably it has been carried out. Truly, there could not make a mistake with their shells, and at five are no more fervent patriots than our Colonists. o'clock, when the charge took place, everybody went Sergeant Baker, of the King's Royal mad for a few minutes. His letter Rifles, whose portrait we publish on this concludes, " Roll on home, for I have page, gives an interesting account of had enough. .Majuba is avenged and

his experiences with General Duller. Ladysmitli relieved ! God save the " Writing from Elandslaagte on March Queen ! I2th, he says that the relief of Lady- Ouii readers will doubtless remember smith entailed the hardest fourteen the story of the remarkable duel which days' fighting ever known. He speaks Sergeant Mason, of Thorneycroft's of Spion Kop, where in places the ground Mounted Infantry, had with a Boer on was so steep that the men had to push the top of Spion Kop. The photograph their rifles up and then pullangloboerwar.comthemselves which we reproduce of the gallant sol- after by means of the long grass all the dier on this page has come from over- time the enemy were firing at them. seas, and shows the bullet-hole in the The captain, the colour-sergeant, and tunic near the right shoulder. Four two other sergeants of his company were other holes were made by different bullets

shot before reaching the summit, so , in Mason's helmet. Our correspondent that Sergeant Baker and a young officer informs us that Mason was in the Mata- had to take their men on. The latter Sergeant Mason, of Thorney- bele Rebellion and has the medal and was killed by a shot in the head. Only croft's Mounted Infantry, who clasp for that campaign. He afterwards had a duel with a Boer on the thirty men reached the crest, but they top of Spion Kop. This photo worked on the Beira Railway, and was were very sorry to receive the order to shows a bullet-hole in the tunic the driver of a hansom at Durban before retire, as they had stormed the enemy's near the right shoulder. Fi\-e joining his present corps. He intends holes were left in the helmet. trenches. They did not expect to assault (See paragraph). to see the war through, and hopes to the position, but as they were marching drive a hansom in Johannesburg. back to camp the Brigade-Major told them that they CoRPOR/.L Fr.ank S. Montague Bates, who is serving- had to take the hill, and they took it. Sergeant Baker 1 with Lumsden's Horse at the front, was one of four was also present at the Vaal Krantz fight, and he 1 volunteers from Burmah. He is the son of Mr. H.

expects to get rewarded for his services there. The | iM. Bates, formerly clerk of the late C.S.C.L.

Sergeant Baker of the King's Private H. C. Upton, 2nd Corporal F. S. M. Bates of Trooper .A. F. Fr,,n' s, of Royal Rifles. (See paragraph) Chesnire M.I. — Died of enteric Ltimsden's Horse. (See para- Lumsden's Hois; — Killed at fever at N.aauwpoort, March 2ist graph) Thaba N'chn, .April 3olh — ;

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TO THE PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN IN KHAKI Yes, there on the mantelshelf You stand in your khaki frame.

And morning and night, when I glance at you, Your smile is still the same. But at times my foolish heart Beats faint for a little while. When I think that before another day

You may have ceased to smile !

You were strong and bright and glad, That day when you went away. And your stalwart figure, khaki-clad, Had never looked so gay ; But out on the wind-swept veld You will not seem so tall. And a bullet is but a little thing,

But it makes a strong- man fall !

O, men go forth to war. And battles are gained and lost And the women quietly wait at homo Counting the heavy cost. A group of liechuaiialand rebels who are fighting agaui>t us at The world stands still to hear the front Of the gallant, brave deeds done. But there's many a battle fought unseen,

THE LAST WATCH. And many a \ictory won ! Baroness d'Anetiian, of the Belg-ian Legation at Dear friend in the khaki frame, Tokyo, Japan, who is one of our readers, having been Brave type of a thousand more. much struck by tlie incident in the battle of Graspan, are learning each to act our part when Major Plumbc's pet terrier dog followed him We called War In this Tragedy ; tiirough the fiercest fire, and was found six hours after And you have a leading role the figfit, guarding his master's dead body, has written (Ah, God in Heaven, be kind !), tJie following verses : But I'll tell you perhaps, next time wc meet, "Good-bye, my dearest dog, my faithful Tip." " " How it feels to be left behind ! He faltered —as in accents low and kind. Bessie Dill, And swimming eye, and paleangloboerwar.comand trembling lip, Before he left —he gave one look behind.

" Good-bye, good-bye, old dog," he breathed again, An extraordinary " For where I go, old friend, you must not come." escape has been And with these words, he strode across the plain. made by twelve Dreaming his last sad dream of love and home. Boer prisoners from Cape Town. They 'Mid cannon's roar, and rifle's deaf ning crack, were able to reacli One has but little thought of or woe weal ; the beach at But once Tip's master gave a quick glance back, Simonstown unob- And smiled to see Tip trotting at his heel. served, and secur- ing a boat at once The kopje's stormed, fierce raged that dreadful fight. put out to sea. They the last gain top at with British yell ! Then they had " With one last piercing cry for Queen and Right," another run of luck, One prayer—one thought— one groan—Tip's for they were picked master fell ! up early by a ship, which proved to be battle's The o'er ; while there, beneath the skies, a French The hero's life blood stains the dark earth red. one, and In death's grim agony Tip's master lies ; whichlanded But trusty Tip is watching^ by his head. them safely at Lourenqo Ah ! loving, faithful ! Tip he licks the hair Marques. That clotted lies upon the noble brow ; When in the And raises on those features once so fair, boat the pri- A wan faint smile in that dark hour of woe. soners had He feebly strokes Tip's round and silky head very few pro- ; visions, and The effort's great, and with a last low groan. if had The hero murmurs—as he sinks back dead, they " been swept I thank Thee, God— I do not die alone." out to sea The hours drag on, and midst the broken cries their death Are mingled raging wind and beatingf rain. would have Commandant Formosa, who occupied, with Commandant Yet when at in the skies, been a hor- length dawn glimmered Potgieter, the intermediate pumping - st:;tion of the rible one. The terrier still stood guard beside the slain ! Kimberley Waterworks during the siege May 26, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 211

One cannot but admire the exceptional smartness of Transvaal- recently. The man made his way to Durban the Boers on several occasions during- the war. During — perhaps with a view to fighting for the British again the recent fighting at Thaba N'chu, a party of the —when he was recognised, tried, and sentenced to enemy were practically cornered, but they eventually death. In Wellington's lime he would have been shot made good their retreat without hardly any loss. To the next morning, but Buller has commuted the death the number of 4,000, they moved away in such regular sentence to imprisonment for life. British gunners, formation, and so steadily, that the Just over forty-one years ago, on May 12th, 1S59, under the impression that they were General Gordon's the Volunteer force was formally inaugurated, and to walk out of a care- Cavalry Brigade, allowed them when the first returns were made in i860 the number

trap ! fully-prepared of efficients was 106,443 men. Last year's total was There appears to be a large number of soldiers 262,045. It may surprise many people, however, to without the Queen's chocolate-boxes, among whom learn that quite a hundred years ago, when the patriotic are sixteen men of the Black Watch, who were wounded fervour of the British people was raised to a high pitch at Magersfontein and sent home. It was stated some from fear of a PVench invasion, there was a Volunteer time ago that all the boxes had been distributed, and it force for home defence of 380,195 men ! The population is evident that there is a considerable shortage. A poor has trebled since then.

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This photograph shows the effect of shells from one of our 15-pounders on a house occupied by Boers at Modder River. A dead Boer was found inside, whose body was riddled with about sixty bullet wounds, evidently caused by shrapnel. The house after- wards became the headquarters of General Babington and his staff. (Photo by Charles Knight.) widow in Chesliire has received her son's Queen's We. are glad to hear that the patriotic concert recently, chocolate from an officer of the regiment, and also a given at the Courthouse, St. John's, Antigua, under note announcing the death and burial of the boy. the patronage of his Excellency Sir Francis and Lady Fleming, in aid of orphans and wives In view- of the bad luck experienced by some of our the widows and and children of our soldiers and sailors now on active generals during the war, it is of interest to read the service in South Africa, was a brilliant success in Duke of Wellington's famous exclamation at Waterloo : every sense of the term. Such efforts cannot be too "When other generals," he said, "commit an error, highly commended. their army is lost by it, and they are sure to be beaten. When I get into a scrape, army gets out of it." my me At the Vet River, in the Orange Free State, a few It must be freely admitted that General Gatacre has had days ago, the ist Gordon Highlanders put a large a lot ot wretched luck, and it is quite probable that no commando to flight, and the 8th Royal Irish Hussars, other commander would, under the same circumstances, cutting them off, killed over seventy of the enemy. have done any better. Lord Roberts himself has had Curiously enough, in 1803, at Leswarree, India, the several set-backs. Royal Irith, in conjunction with the 2nd West Riding The military authorities are very tender-hearted nowa- Regiment, put the enemy to rout and captured seventy- days. A man of the loth Mountain Battery deserted to two guns, forty-four stand of colours, and two thousand the Boers some months ago, but, owing to insubordina- prisoners. Part of the 8th Hussars were in the gallant tion to a Field Cornet, he was turned out of the charge of the " Six Hundred" at Balaclava." 2^2 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET May 26, 1900

yards or more away, writhing in the open plain, were two men of the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, called Byrne and Davis, who had been shot down by the Boer marksmen on the adjacent iiills. Murray galloped out to their aid, closely followed by Danaher. The corporal's horse was immediately shot under him, but he still went forward on foot. " We both," writes Murra_\-, " reached tliem to- gether. On stooping to raise Byrne's head

I was shot through the body, the ball entering my right side and passing out near the spine. Seeing how useless it was for Danaher to remain, I ordered him to secure my carbine and escape. Byrne breathed his last by my side soon after. Davis and I were taken prisoners, and, together with Byrne's body, carried in a bullock hide to the Boer camp on the mountain top, where we were well treated. They kept us there twenty-six hours. By the courtesy of the Beer commandant, we were then permitted to return to Pretoria under a flag of truce, bringing with us the body of our poor comrade. Davis died five days afterwards."

That ultimatum which the Boers pre- sented at the commencement of the war One uf ihe most important offi:es at the front is that of carryinp; dispatches. is proving a difficult matter for them to Cyclists have done splendid work in this connection since the outbreak of the present explain now. At that time Mr. Kruger war. Here you have a company of these smart fellows waiting to receive le ters from Lord Roberts's secretaries and Mr. Steyn felt absolutely and perfectly confident that the English were about to Besides Corporal Joseph Jolin Farmer of tlie Army be driven into the sea. Since then many matters have Hospital Corps —who was the only man to win the gone wrong, the chief of which is the failure to rise than the V.C. in the affair on jMajuba Hill — five other soldiers of the Cape Dutch. Nothing is plainer now won the j^lorious " threepenn'orth o' bronze" in the fact that if Ladysmith had fallen, the Cape Dutch Transvaal war of '81. Their names are Lieut. -Colonel would have joined the Transvaalers. INlr. Kruger's Alan Richard Hill, of the 2ndangloboerwar.comBattalion Northampton- whole plan has collapsed. shire Regiment (late Rutlands) Private Osborre, ; James When the Naval Brigade landed at Windsor recently of the same regiment ; Private Doogan, and Lance- to see the Queen, the commander. Captain Lambton, Corporal Private James Murray and John Danaher, ^^,^g presented with a bouquet which, it was thought, | both of the 2nd Battalion of the Connaught Rangers. ' |^g might like to give to the Queen. The captain,

Lieutenant Hill, as he then was, brought a couple of ' |^Q^^.p^.g,-_ ^^^^ ,-,o(- make a grab, but sweetly asked, wounded soldiers .. ?" out of action at Laing's Nek under a I that through the streets j y\_qw on earth can carry heavy Boer fire. had previously tried to save He j^ ,^-,jjy j^g recalled that when, after the Battle of the Lieutenant Baillie, but as he was carrying him away in of Naples presented Nelson with , ^\\q^ the young Prince his arms that officer was hit a second time and killed. ^ bouquet, the famous hero was so far touched that

It was a week before the Majuba Hill disaster that ' he allowed big tears to course down his cheeks. Private James Osborne distinguished himself by his valour at a place called Wesselstroon, in the heart of the Transvaal. In a skirmish on Febru- ar)' 22nd, many of our men fell in a skirmisli with the enemy, being picked off by the Boer sharpshooters. Among the wounded was a young lad ot the Northampton's named Mayes, who could be plainly seen in the distance trying to move. Osborne, being mounted, boldly dashed to his rescue in lace of a large post of our "first white enemies since Sebastopol." Taking him up, Osborne triumphantly brought him back to his comrades who had been witnessing the heroic rescue. Lance -Corporal Murray and Private Danaher were the first to win the coveted Victoria Cross in Boerland. At the time Danaher was serving as a trooper in Nourse's Horse, a Cape corps, and Murray in the Mounted Infantry of his bat- talion. The deed which brought them distinction was done at Elands- fontein, near Pretoria, during a

British sortie • • 1 • from that place on ,, .. r.u i 1 xr u . 1 . t-. ir . r .u , ^°' ' '^"' of the Lnpenal Yeomanry Hospital at Ueelfontein, showing ore of th": nurses i: I QQ \ I J January lOth, 180I. A thousand surrounded by a group of patients -happily only suffering from slight wounds —

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The names of ihe Peers and Members of Parliament IIOL'Sr, OF COMMON'S who are at present serving, or under orders to serve, in Mr. W. Allen (Newcastlc-under-Lyne), Trooper, L^'. South Africa mal

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Where our <;all.-int Coloni.ils gave their bloDd for tfie honour and gK ry of the British Flag : This touching scene was witnessed at Spring- f-ntein, when the v^'ounded Australians were brought into camp. Our loyal Colonies have stood by the Mother Country in her time of trouble, giving her freely the finest sons of ihe soil, and we will not forget them when they need our aid. The war has welded the mightiest of existing Emi ires with bands far stronger than iron, and if for that reas( n alone, we ought to be grateful to President Kruger for his ultimatum. (Photo bv D. Barnett, Our Special Correspondent.)

Duke of Marlborough, Staff Captain for I.V. /Mr. E. H. Llewellyn (North Somerset), I\L\jor, 4th Lord Methuen, commanding ist Division in South Battalion Somerset Light Lifantry. Africa. Mr. H. L. B. McCalmont (Newmarket), commanding Duke of Norfolk, K.G., Captain, LY. 6th Battalion Royal Warwick Regiment. Lord Roberts of Kandahar, Field-Marshal Command- Mr. F. B. Mildmay (Totnes, Devon), Lieutenant, LY. ing-in-Chiet. Viscount Milton (Wakefield), Lieutenant, LY. Lord Romilly, special service. South .Africa. Mr. D. V. PIrie (North Aberdeen), with Remounts Lord Rosmead, Major, 6th Battalion Lancashire Department, South Africa. Fusiliers. Lord Stanley, special service, South Africa. Duke of Roxburghe, Lieutenant, Royal Horse Guards Lord Edmund Talbot (Chichester), special service. Earl of Scarborough, second in command of battalion South .Africa. of LY. Viscount Valentia (Oxford), A.A.G. for LY.

Ea 1 .Sondes, Lieutenant, I.Y. Major W. H. Wyndham-Quin (Oxford), Captain, LY. Dike of Westminster, A. D.C. to Governor. Major the Hon. H. V. Duncombe (Egrcmont, Cumber- Lord Wolverton, Second Lieutenant, Somersetshire land), Adjutant, LY. Yeomanry Cavalry. Sir Elliott Lees (Birkenhead), Captain, LY. Lord de la Zouche, Lieutenant, LY. Sir S. Scott (.NLarylebone), Lieutenant, LY. 234 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET May 26, 1900

" Keep the Irish soldiers away from spirits and he It is interesting to compare the cost of soldiers of can be made, under g^ood officers and good discipline, different nations. Official figures submitted at Wash- as fine a fighting man as the world can produce." ington recently show that the cost of the American So wrote Lord Wolseley to Sergeant Toomey, of the soldier per annum is 1,502 dollars. This individual gallant Royal Irish Rifles, thir- sum, it is worth noting, is largely teen years ago, and much has in excess ot the cost of European since happened to bear out the troops. Great Britain, which has truth of the Commander-in-Chiefs the smallest army of all the Great remarks. Sergeant Toomey had Powers, expends, roughly, £9j) sent his lordship a pliotograph of on each of her soldiers ; Austria, the ist Battalion, taken at Cairo JA fJ'ttA.n.^'.^AZi with a war footing of over a in September, 1884. million men, expends ;^45 per

man ; and Germany and France, Talking of temperance, we were /W the two military Powers of Europe pleased to note that another dis- with the biggest armies, are equal tinguished Irishman, General Sir with an individual outlay o^ George White, V. C, presided at £4^. Italy, with the second smallest the anniversary meeting of the army, spends ^^38 on every soldier Army Temperance Association, she maintains ; and Russia's cost held at the Royal United Service is estimated at ^£^37. In 1886 Institute, on Monday week last, each soldier cost the United States on which occasion he presented ^278, so that the lapse of four- ;^8o to the 4th King's Royal teen years exhibits no small dif- Rifles. Lord Roberts is President ference in national cost per man. of the Council, and Sir George White Vice-President. That it is not always easy to Sergeant A. Holloway, of recognise an officer at the front the i6tiT Lancers, who was the following story goes to show. wounded in the final rush of The rank and file on the Modder General French's cavalry to Kim- River were a short time ago tem- berley on February 16th, speak- porarily forbidden to bathe, and ing of the affair in a letter says : sentinels were posted on the The Commander-in-Chiefs Letter to Sergeant " The i6th had orders to rush the Toomey banks to look for surreptitious Boer position, and awa}' we went swimmers. One of the sentinels

My troop seemed to find the thickest part of the | caught sight of a swimmer, who persistently ignored

fighting. Mr. Hesketh was leading the troop, and I his summons to surrender to arrest. At last the bather

I was covering him. I saw a Boer raise his emerged from the river ; the furious sentinel advanced rifle it I in figure a prisoner. " and level at the Lieutenant. rammed | upon the dripping and claimed Con- ' '" ' ' ~ spurs and bounded forward almost the" same found was the reply. "Can't you see I'm an my angloboerwar.com^ you!" instant that he fired. It was his last shot. My lance officer!"

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A group of the New Zealand Young Ladies' Contingent going through firing exercises. It was formed at Welhngton bv Lady Douglas, wife of Sir Arthur Douglas, Under-Secretary for Defence. Considering the limited number of drills, these damsels are remarkably smart in going through military evolutions. Oom Paul is talking of putting women in the fighting trenches perhaps we could oblige him with an opposing force of Amazons ; BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET May 26, 1900

President Rrtoer's clo sing speech in the— Volksraad bank, the soldier hastily thrust it in the maga^irc of b_\' follow ot was graced the ing sentences: "O God | one of the guns, when, alas! a shell from a Boer the Volksraad and of the i2-pounder Nordenfeldt Republics, shall this be (these are the artistic the final act? No. God details that give veri- be merciful. By strength i,imilitude to an other- and by riijht we are an wise bald and uncon- independent State. Thirty \incing narrative) came thousand burg^hers have along and blew that gun fought 200,000 British sol- to pieoes. Not even a diers. The burghers arc, halfpenny was left of the by the providence of God, treasure trove." Tlie still alive to fight our artilleryman winds up \indictivc, voracious foe, with the pertinent ques- our eternal, everlasting tion, "What do you think " enemy, since 1836." We of that tor hard luck ? are grateful for this frank Why, that is a matter of confession of enmity of opinion, to be sure. such long standing. The strength of a LiEL'T. - General Sir cavalry brigade is 2,624 Georce White has been officers and men, 2,650 directed to take up his horses and pack animals post as Governor and and 142 vehicles. Its drawn bj- four mules. Commander-in-Chief at The water is mostly used composition is as fol- r^* . , for making tea and cooking purposes , , Gibraltar on the ist of J Uly. The appomtment was -it being too precious to squander lows:— Three regiments; 'n wa^liing oneself made before Sir George went to South Africa. Bel- machine guns ; battery

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His "-^tst^ Excellency's Guard : When Sir Alfred Milne-- made his recent tour of inspection, Montmorency's Scouts had the honour ot farming his guard. And well they deserved the mark of favour, for their work has been invaluable. They met his Excellency on his arrival at Springfontein, whence Sir Alfred proceeded to Bloemfontein fast Corporation has decided R.H. A. ; two com panics mounted unanimously to grant the free- infantry and two machine guns ; dom of the city to the gallant mounted R.E. ; a bearer com- General. pany, field hospital, supply One of the Ladysmith garri- column, ammunition column. son has broken all records in It is not by any means gene, the matter of hard luck. He is rally known that Lord Roberts a Morpeth man, and served in is in fellowship with one of the the 67th Battery. This is the straitest sects of Nonconformity. mournful story he tells in a letter He belongs to the Strict Bap- home :--" The battle of Wagon tists, and whenever he is in

Hill stands for , Lo.ndon may be seen among the both time and worshippers in the little chapel place. During of the denomination in Cower its progress the Street. It is a noticeable thing canny North- that religious inen in the Army

u m b r i a n are very frequently associated picked up ' a with the most pronounced forms bag contain- of Evangelical Calvinism. ing fifty sove- The Boertrenches at Fourteen reigns arid Streams resemble undergroud ^'14 in silver. dwellings. They were made in Having no Tommy has a "clean up." These are some of the gallant i6ih Lancers zigzags, and the positions were time to convey who are with General French's cavalry. They are taking the oppor- concealed by bush. The exca- tunity afforded by a brief halt to get a shave—a rare thing on a cam- the find to his paign. (Photos by D. Barnett, Our Special Corre.pondentl vated chambers were roofed. —

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On the march : This interesting snapshot shows the splendid Derbyshires stepping it out in the Free State. They are fine fellows, and have done some good work since they set foot on South African soil hal.'-a-dozen months ago. (PhoLo \>y D. Barnett, Our Special Correspondent)

For those of our readers who are desirous of havhig 1887— 89 he served on the Staff as Assistant Military the bare facts of Baden-Powell's brilliant career in small Secretary in South Africa, being mentioned in dispatches compass we have written the following paragraph : for his services in connection with the Zululand opera- " B.-P. ," who is three-and-forty years of age, is a son tions of 1888. Then he went to Malta for three years of the late Reverend Professor Baden-Powell, of Oxford to act as Assistant Military Secretary; but in 1895 went and Langdcn Manor, by his second wife, Henrietta out to Ashanti on special service, doing some marvellous Grace, daughter of Admiral W. H. Smyth. He was work while in command of native levies and receiving a educated at Charterhouse, where he was undoubtedly Brevet Lieut. -Colonelcy and star for his service. He the most popular boy of his day. He still has a great was Chief Staff Officer in the Matabeleland campaign, affection for his old school, where fond legends of his being again mentioned in dispatches and receiving a boyhood's deeds are still current. Only a few years ago Brevet Colonelcy. Then he tried his hand, and success- he won the hearts of all the lads present by giving fully, at war corresponding, after which he became them a one-man entertainment impromptu rather than Colonel of Irregular Horse in South .Africa. In 1897 he allow them to be disappointed by a fellow who didn't was promoted from the 13th turn up. The boys enjoyed that night far more than Hussars to the command of they had anticipated, for "Bathingangloboerwar.comTowel" beats the the 5th Dragoon Guards, ordinary entertainer hollow. He gives his audience no being Lieut. -Colonel com- time to take breath — they cannot help themselves, and manding them from 1897 have to make up their minds to laugh for a couple of to 1899. He won the Kadir hours or more at a stretch. He was only nineteen when Pig-Sticking Cup, and only he joined the 13th Hussars, with which regiment he has belongs to one club — the served in India, Afghanistan and South Africa. From Naval and Military.

Most of our gallant soldiers can turn their hands to anything. Here you have a company of Scottish Borderers road-making in the Free State. (Photo by D. Barnett, Our Special Correspondent.) ",

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When Tommy makes a pet of As I was marching along a little any animal he sticks to it through girl about ten years old ran up to " thick and thin. On our way me and said so piteously, ' Have to Orange River," says a C. I.V. }'ou taken the Boer's big gun " we picked up a fine black re- away ? ' I kissed the poor little triever dog. We intended to take thing as she looked so frightened, it with us right through the cam- and told her that the gun was paign, and bring it home to Eng- gone, and would never comeback. land. But we were ordered either She skipped away delighted." to take the dog away or shoot it. "Little" Plumer, who com- It favourite was a great with the mands the Irregulars in Rho- used to picket company, come on desia, is a grandson of Sir with us, and was the best sentry Thomas Plumer, a former Master of our fel- we ever had. None of the Rolls. He was born in lows shoot it, so the dog would 1857, and is twenty days younger was sent back to Fort Munster. This 4*7 Naval gun was reshipped on the ihan Colonel Baden-Powell, and,

"Harlech "' Another pet of the regiment was Castle in order that she might be like the hero of Mafeking, received refitted with a new tube ; so many shots hav- a little white kitten, which earned ing been fired that the old one was thoroughly his commission direct from school Ration.' the name of 'Emergency vorn out I Another tribute to the work of without previously passing the incomparable Naval Brigade What became of it 1 do not know. through either Sandhurst or the " I in behind WALKED our fellows," re- | Militia. He left Eton in 1876 and went out to India to marks a gallant 9th Lan- cer, referring to 'join the 65th, now the York and Lancaster Regiment,

General French's trium- phal entrj- into ' Captain F~rederick Gore Anley, commanding the

Kimberley, "because my horse had dropped ' 3rd Regiment of Mounted Infantry in Souih Africa, with exhaustion just out- side the town, whose name is specially mentioned by Lord Roberts for his gallantry, was born in 1863, and is

the only son of the late Col. Frederick Anle)', Royal Artillery. Cap- tain Anley ob- tained his first commission in angloboerwar.comthe 2nd Bat- talion Essex Regiment in Entraininglone of the Naval guns at Port Eliza- 47 1884, and after beth for Lieut. -General French, commanding the Cavalry Division with Lord Roberts serving in the Nile Expedition and Soudan Campaigns, was appointed administrator of the Haifa dis- trict. The "Black Watch " is a great stu m- bling-block to the Continental press. A Paris newspaper allu- ding to the pre- sence of the " Garde Noire " at Tel-el-Kebir, remarkedthatit was "too shock- ing to think of a people who called them- selves civilized thus pressing into their inili- tary service a regiment of blacks {jin regim eiit de " One of the ammunition wagons belonging to the Landing a field gun for the J Battery of the splendid Royal Horse Artillery tiegres). Royal Horse Artillery being landed at Durban LANDING GUNS AT PORT ELIZABETH FOR ROBERTS AND FRENCH (Photos by D. Harnett, Our Special Correspondent^ May 26, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 239

Lobatsi, one ot Colonel Plumer's advanced posts in his operations for the relief o[ Mafeking-. It is a native villag'e some forty-seven miles to the north of Mafeking by rail, and is of little importance beyond the fact that it boasts a railway station. The country round about is somewhat denuded of trees, for they have been cut down to supply Kimberley with fuel. It is situated io a good region for game, however, and is a favourite hunting-ground with South African sportsmen. This photograph shows the kopjes on both sides of the railway, where the Boers were in position at the time it was taken. The rail runs between them, and the big white building is the station. (Photo by S. C. Turner, of Buluwayo.)

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The armoured train has done good work in Colonel Plumer's operations for the relief of gallant little Mafeking, being the principal means of reinforcing our men at the advanced posts. This interesting photograph shows Captain Hoel Llewellyn and the crew of the train, the captain being the burly, clean-shaven man in the white shirt, sitting down in the centre of the group. The manner in which branches of trees have been placed about the engine and trucks is most ingenious, and very irritating to the enemy, we may be sure. (Photo by S. C. Turner, of Buluwayo.) COLONEL PLL'MER'S OPERATIONS FOR THE RELIEF OF MAFEKING 240—May 2O, Wjco—BLACK AND U

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Mr. R. H. Henderson, J. P., wliose portrait we pub- the Boer position on the Riet River, where he had to lish on this page, was Kimberley's Mayor when they \\g perdu for nine and a-half hours, when he eluded the were cut off from the outside world. " (3nly since com- vigilance of the Boer outposts, and successfully reached munication has been restored," writes an inhabitant of his own camp, on foot, with valuable information. He

I the Diamond City, " are we able to see to what extent was not so fortunate, however, at Colesberg on Janu- his herculean efforts have been appreciated by the people ary ist, when his horse was shot, and he was brought of the Diamond Fields. Durini^ the latter part of Sep- down along with it, and sustained a complicated fracture tember, and all October, some 6,000 loyalists, who had of the left elbow, which will leave him maimed for life. to fly for their lives in dread of the Boers, took refuge His little son is a child of about seven summers, and is a in Kimberley. The Mayor rose to the occasion, appealed ' very patriotic and enthusiastic Britisher, although born to his fellow-citizens for funds, organised local com- in Johannesburg, and the height of his ambition at pre- mittees, and grappled with the great difticulties in such sent is to fight the Boers. His enthusiasm carried him so a masterly manner, that the refugees, on arrival at iar oneday that liewas missing for se\eral hours, andwas j ihe Town Hall, Kimberlev, were comfortably housed at last discovered in one of the principal streets of the and taken care of by a most perfect organisation, of town— some pieces of white cloth bound round his legs wliich he was head for putties — making until the siege was inquiries for a ' "listing raised by the brilliant officer.' He said he march of General was going to 'list,' like Frencli. Kimberlev is his father, and fight the only town of import- the Boers." ance in South Africa It appears that Com- whicli relied entirely on mandant Cronje is not its own resources, and a .Scotsman after all. .At supported such a large least, the Cape Mcniiiy number of refugees makes the following without the aid of the interesting statement : .Mansion House Fund. — " \ow that the world The only history of the is ringing with the siege to hand says : name of Piet Cronje, ' The retiring Mayor, tlie famous Boer Mr. R. H. Henderson, General, it is interest- had filled the position ing to note that his of the Mayor of Kim- patronymic was origin- berley with conspicuous ally French. His an- ability and honour dur- cestor— Pierre Crognet, ing the most onerous or Crosnier — was a and trying period in the F"rench refugee who history of Kimberley.' left France owing to Mr. Henderson was angloboerwar.com the Revocation of the President of the Edict of Nantes, which Mayoral Congress in had the effect of banish- 1899, a representative ing all Protestants from Congress of the heads that country. This of all Municipalities in Pierre Crognet arrived South Africa." in the Colony in 1698, Rimington's Gl'ides and settled at Draken- --or, as they are more stcin, where lien-.arried familiarly known and Susanna Taillifcr, called, Rimington's widow of Jean Garde, Tigers, so-called be- also a French refugee. cause of their distinc- He left si.K children. It tive pugaree being a is curious to find that strip of tiger skin — are the Boer General bears a body of men who the Christian name of were raised at the com- his French ancestor, mencement of this war Mr. R. H. Henderson, J. P., Mayor of Kimberley during the siege Pierre, it is superfluous by Major Rimington, to add, being the French an Imperial officer, for the purpose of guiding her equivalent for the Dutch Pieler. Cronje is a Dutch pho- -Majesty's forces through this Colony, the Orange F"ree netic spelling of the French name Crognet, or Crosnier. State and the Transvaal. " Each man," writes a Port Perhaps some authority will next assure us that our Illizabeth correspondent, " was bound to be proficient guest at St. Helena is a .Spaniard, or an Irishman. in the Boer and Kaffir languages, and also to have per- Ci'RiouSLV enough, the owner of the now historic farm fect knowledge of some part or parts of the above- of Magersfontein, Mr. John Bisset, is a sturdy Scot and mentioned States. The total strength of this corps is a staunch Britisher, who was made to suffer severely by limited to 200, and although essentially raised as tlie besieging Boers on account of his fearless, outspoken Guides, they, with only two squadrons of Lancers and manner of championing the cause of the Flag. Notwith- one company of Mounted Infantry, did all the scout- standing Boer threats and cajolery, he remained on his ing and mounted work of Lord ]Methuen's Column property throughout the siege, and can therefore speak from Orange River to Modder River. One trooper authoritati\ely and from personal knowledge on the sub- v.ho is a Uitlander, in common with the majority of ject of his losses. On several occasions he was taken his corps — had some very dangerous and important prisoner, and removed from laager to laager, but nothing work to perform. It was whilst acting as advanced could break his spirit, shake his loyalty, or force him to in !-cout, in company with two others — the day before the yield a single verbal concession to the enemy ; and -Modder River fight — that he got cut off, his horse being years past there was many a Boer who had painfully felt i!iot. He managed to liide himself within 200 yards of the weight of the brawny farmer's sledge-hammer fist. —

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Many of our soldiers are bringing- home bits of Boer The Scottish Reginicnts' Gift Fund appeal for sub- shells as curios, but very few of them will carry their scriptions, the object being to send useful gifts of mementos in the same way as one of the Middlesex remembrance to tiie soldiers of the Higiiland and other Regiment. " At Spion Kop," he writes, " a shell burst Scottish regiments now in .South Africa. The gift will just over us, killing the man on my right and severely be a packet of tobacco and a pipe, in a simple box, with wounding another on my left. A piece a greeting from .Scotsmen to Scotsmen. of shell went through my helmet and " Fighting Mac," the gallant com- into my back, not doing much damage mander of the splendid Highland though, so I did not fall out wounded. Brigade, recently wrote home that I have still got the piece in my back. tobacco was one ot the things the men It is half an inch long and an eighth would most value. Indeed, the many of an inch wide. It will stop there, as letters from the rank and file at the the wound has healed up, and the doctor front bear ample testimony to the joys would not remove it, saying- it would of "a pipe" amid the trials of wearing fall out on its own account later." campaign. As a matter ot fact, tea leaves were even smoked in Ladysmith This is the 227th day of the war. It as a last resource. Subscriptions, which is interesting to compare the duration will be duly acknowledged, should be of the present struggle with that of sent to the Hon^ Treasurer, Sir James some of the great wars ot the nineteenth R. D. M.cGrigor, Bart., 25, Charles

century. The Spanish-American War . . , , Street, St. James's Square, S.VV. ^^^ i^rihur H irst. who keot. ^ j *i » will be remembered, among other rea- the pigeon loft in Ladysniilh sons, for its extreme brevity, for, begun The war, which ruined the Army onApril2ist, 1898, it was over and done with on July 26th Football Cup contest, is making its effect felt on in the same year. The Zulu VV^ar lasted eight months, cricket too. Hampshire suffers irreparably by the from January nth to September 3rd, 1879. The Chino- absence of Major Poore, who headed the batsmen Japanese waroccupied onlynine months — from July 25th, last year with an average of about 90, Colonel 1894, to April 17th, 1895. France and Germany were Spens, Captain Wynyard, Mr. Heseltine and Webb; ten months in settling their dispute in 1870— 71. The while Yorkshire lacks the invaluable services ot Russo-Turkish struggle lasted nearly eleven months Mr. F. S. Jackson, Mr. Frank Mitchell and Mr. fio n April 2dth, 1877, to March 3rd. 1878. The Crimean F"rank Milli.'jan—the last nanied, unhappily, among the "missing-." Essex, too, will lose one of its finest bats, Mr.

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The pigeon loft at Ladysmith. Mr. Hirst is seen standing by one of the pens. He is at present at Mooi River, suffering from the effects of enteric fever, which he contracted in Ladysmith

with Buller, writing froni Elands- laagte, says: — "You ren-iembe;- when we had the fight on Spion } that Buller said he Kop General had got the key to Ladysmith, and how people took the lift out of him, War lingered for two years, from March 27th, 1854, untir saying he had lost the lock. Well, they must not March 31st, 1856. The American Civil War has the torget that a lock wants turning before it will open unenviable distinction of having been by far the longest easily. So it was with the Ladysmith lock. It had of the latter half of the century. It began on April 13th, got rusty with time, and the rust had turned into Boei 1861, and peace was not restored until May 26th, 1865. winches six miles long." — ;

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Eight miles from Kimberley helio. communication was obtained. The General elected to enter the town from this point by a longer route than his guide intended. Receiving permission to divide, the coast being clear, the guide and the General raced for the finisli, but the guide, with Major Rimington and his scouts, won hands down, beating the General by an hour or so. On arrival at the Sanatorium, the Hon. Cecil was on the stoep, with bottles of Pommery, and plenty of ice. "Some idea of the mag- nitude of the undertaking," remarks a local press- man, " may perliaps be gathered from the fact that General French's column, with the convoy, is re- ported to have heen fourteen miles long. The guide holds a warm letter of admiration from Major Rimington for his services on this remarkable march, and there can be little doubt that General

A book which saved a life : It was carried by Sergeant Harlai.d, French's thanks will quickly follow. The whole march of the Higliland Light Infantry, at Magersfontein was conducted across the veld, no roads being taken."

The photographs of books which we reproduce on I A South Australian Mounted Infantryman gives an this page are of more than common interest. The interesting description of a visit paid bv a patrol to a " : pocket volume was carried by Sergeant Harland, of the [ deserted farm near Arundel. He writes Yesterdav Highland Light Infantry, at the we were at a farm which had battle of Magersfontein, and was before the war been quite an the means of his escaping un- aristocratic home, and it was injured. Our photographs show quite sad to see the desolation the course of the bullet. The in- wrought. The owner had been scription in the photograph at the shot some time before, and his foot of this page is as follows: — family had fled before the British, " Til is is the book I had in my leaving everything behind. While haversack, and which prevented some of us 'chevied' the fowls a bullet from striking me. round the garden, others got into ,A. W. H." the house, and Corporal Muir of ours sat to the piano Mr. N. C. Walters, whose down and played, while Corporal Klaffer portrait we publish on this page, — sang, and we all joined in a rous- writes as follows : " I was en- ing chorus I gaged as expert guide to General that imagine has not been heard in that house French's column for the relief of before. It was a pleasant time, Kimberley, and for which angloboerwar.comservice liable to be interrupted at any I hold a letter of thanks signed by Major M. T. Rimington, a copy moment by a party of Boers. But still, I don't think any of us of which is appended hereto. The enjoyed it without a accompanying photograph of me would have spice of danger.. is the danger was taken by Mr. H. C. VV'ood, of It that lends the charm. It would this town, immediately after my very return from Kimberley for a short have amused you much to holiday." see couples of us waltzing round " Kimberley Kimberley, the room with rifles slung on Club , The man who helped us to relieve the " our backs, while our horses were February r7th, 1900. Diamond City : Mr C. N. Walters, the standing" " Mr. Walters has given every expert guide, who took General French's ready under the window." column to Kimberley. (Photo by H. C. satisfaction as guide to the Kim- Wood, Middleburg, Cape Colony) The uniforms of privates cost berley relief column, and has dis- the taxpayer as follows : — Line

1 i8s. artillery, los. played courage and coolness in the actions which were infantry, £2 ; ;^4 ; hussars, £^ los. incident to the march. kilted Highlanders, ^3 15s. ; unmounted Engineer.s, " M. T. Rimington, ;^4 4s.; mounted Engineers, ;i£5"6 13s.; Life Guards, ;^7 is. " Commandant Imperial Corps Guides." In connection with the relief of the Diamond City it seems that there was a little incident of a humor- ous nature which has not so far been recorded in this country. At a deserted Boer fiirmhouse passed cti route, the officers discovered what proved to be a quantity of vegetable marrows. At first tliev thought that they might be melons and appealed to their guide for information. Great was the disgust and wry the faces when his fiat went forth that "they must be boiled before taken." The guide bethought him, however, of the chance of there being a melon amongst them. Few Colonials can tell the difference, at least so one correspondent fancies, having repeatedlv mistaken them jiimself. The trusty guide, after diligent search, discovered 07te beauty. This he hied him with to the General, and a sketch of General French and his officers munching melon will shortly appear in one of the popular Illustrateds — their guide sitting in the A book which saved a life : It was carried by Sergeant Harland. The centre of the group dissecting it with a penknife. photo shows where the bullet entered the book, coming out of the back cover M

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On Tliursda)' her Gracious sign nineteen years later. He Majesty the Queen completed has seen much service in her eighty-first year. That India, China, and Africa; and she may hve to become a cen- received the thanks of Parlia- tenarian and enjoy the best of ment and a grant of ;^25,ooo heaUh is at once tlie loyal for his "courage, energy, and and ardent wish of every perseverance" in the conduct man, women and child in of the Ashanti War, while for her Kingdom, and in her vast his services as Commander- dominions over seas as well. in-Chief of the Expeditionary That our beloved sovereign, Force to Egypt in 1882 he re- who has already celebrated ceived a peerage, being ad- two jubilees, should have vanced to a Viscounty for his thoroughly enjoyed her recent work with the Gordon Relief visit to Ireland is a source of Expedition in 1884-5. no inconsiderable satisfaction, Our other portraits include Alia;liieri boi'n at I'lor- , mingled with a certain feel- those of the first editor of II., born at St. 27th, 1265 's, May 29th, 1630 ing of pride, to us all. The Punch, the genial Mark growth of the Empire since Lemon, who died at Crawley, she ascended the throne on in Sussex, thirty years ago, the death of her uncle, Wil- on May 23rd — the day on liam IV., on June 20th, 1837, which, ten years previously, has been literally amazing. .'Vlbert Smith, the popular

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Her M.-ijesty the Queen, born at Kensington Pal.ace, May 24th, 1819

Yesterday was the anni- novelist, joined the great I.oid Roberts, V.C., Cum- Lord Wolseley, Commander- mancJer-in-Chief of the Forces versary of Princess Christian's majority. A vastly different in-Chief of the Hritish Army; in South Africa, made a Field- birth at Buckingham Palace type of literary genius was made a Field-Marshal, May Marshal May 25th, 1895 26ih, 1894 on May 25th, 1846, while to- Alighieri Dante, "that singu- day the Duchess of York lar splendour of the Italian completes her thirty - third race," who was baptised year. On behalf of our readers Durante — " the much endur- and ourseh'es, we respectfully ing " — which was afterwards wish her Royal Highness contracted into the name by many happy returns of the which he is known to fame day. We have pleasure in and which means " the giver. including among our anniver- William Pitt was only forty- sary portraits this week those seven years of age when he of our tvi'o foremost living died at Putney on January soldiers. Tlie facts of Vis- 23rd, 1806. "The Merry count Wolseley's career are Monarch " was born at St. too familiar to need detailed James's two hundred an J repetition here. Suffice it to seventy years ago, and after recall that the Commander- many adventures came into in-Chief of the Army was born his kingdom on May 26th, at Goldenbridge House, Co. 1660. (Photos by Lafayette, William Pitt, born at Hayes Mark Lemon, first editor of Dublin, on June 4th, 1833, and HughesandMullins, Downey, Kent, May 28th, 1759 fundi, died May 23rd, 1870 entered the Army as an en- London Stereoscopic Co.,&c.) "

May 26, 1900 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET ^51 LETTERS ON THE WAR

A TROOl'ER S \'ERSION OF SANNA S POST helmet knocked off— a spur and my leg-iron stopped A TROOPER in the Royal Horse Artillery sends home one or two. If the people at home could only have - seen it ! We all deserve a V.C. When I got out my- the following account of the affair at Sanna's Post : self the battery had galloped " away with whatever horses Bloemfontein, April 4th. they could get ; so I took my revolver and hid it in my " I only arrived in hospital here on Monday, having shirt — the belt had gone. Then I got mixed up with caught a bullet through the hip (a Mauser) on Satur- some Boers ; but I got down by an ant-hill, and when day last at Sanna's Post, where we walked right into a I saw a chance I did a bunk. 1 don't reckon the High- trap. We left Bloemfontein about a fortnight ago, and gate Harriers could have been in it with the way I ran marched to Thaba N'chu to keep the rebels quiet about for a little. O! it was an awful sight— dead and thirty or forty miles from here. We camped there for wounded all around, and the poor horses all smothered about a week without having any trouble, till one day in blood and struggling about. I captured a M.I. a message flashed through the heliograph that there horse, but could not ride owing to the bullet in my hip. were three or four thousand Boers the on move at I have been in several scraps, but they were all picnics Sanna's Post, which is about midway between here and to this turn-out. But my luck was dead in. A 'guide'

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" " A new way to find your friends : This unique envelope was addressed to Tommy." Not knowing the man's name nor wjiere- abouts," writes Mr. G. Scholtz, of Richmond Hill, Green Point, Cape Town, who favoured us with it, " I had to resort to this means of addressing it, and I subsequently harned that it was successful in finding him. Enclosed in the envelope were photos 1 " i ad taken of him and his comiades in a group, and the image pasted on the outside was that of himself, taken from the group

Bloemfontein. We started there and then, arriving at helped me to a farmhouse kept by some relation o( Sanna's Post about 4.30 in the morning dead tired. Joubert the General, who's dead— where they treated So we halted and went to sleep, and the Boers shelled me very kindly, giving me some bread, milk and line us and drove us right into a trap like a horseshoe, sur- Dutch soup. 1 saw two officers in there (ours were all rounded by kopjes. Well, we had no cavalry or scouts wounded save the Major), and we stopped till next day, in front, or even advance guard, Roberts's Horse when they bunged us into buck-wagons to come on and the Mounted Infantry being behind, and the here. Every big building here is used as a hospital. convoy on the left. When we got within 200 yards IVn in a fine show called Grey's College. I get some of the Boers they opened heavy rifle fire at us. bread and butter to eat and blankets to lie on. We There were only the two batteries, Q and U. haven't reached beds yet. Of course I have lost every- U being a few yards in advance, they captured thing now. The sister gave me a shirt and a pair 01 the whole battery, excepting one gun, while we socks. I don't know where your letters get to. I have retired, or tried to do so ; but our horses and men seen no tobacco or anything which is supposed to have were being shot down everywhere, so the Major gave been sent out for the troops. They are sent for the the order to get the guns into action, vi'hich we did at sick, I suppose, for the fighting troops get only what about 250 yards' range, which was simply murder, and they can buy, and you want to be a young millionaire. when about half the battery was shot down we retired, This is the place for 'booze'— vi'hisky 25s. a bottle, a fetching two guns out of action, the other three being sinall Bass 2s., and then they ha\e the ciieek to dish brought out by volunteers. I suppose I am not to be out in orders 'that the first man caught drunk will be

' !' shot dead. I am told I am a lucky chap. I had my severely punished —

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THE PLEASURES OE EEINC; INVAUDED land Brigade. Poor Colonel Hannay was killed in the Dri\'er Glassock, of the Royal Horse Artillery, same way— making a rush with the ^loimted Infantry. .vritesa letter from Bloemfontein on Good— Friday, from I am sending this off thlrty-fi\e miles to Klip Drift to ,vhich we make the following extracts : where the light line has been now run. This light line " I am going back to my Battery to-day. I'm not will make a lot of difference, and if run up will, I hope, made for an invalid. I have done the town with a make our line of communication good, and you don't Rimington Tiger. So long as you can get about they know what that means till the horses are put on don't seem to trouble. We have been ' doing a little half rations and the men on short rations of biscu'ts,

Colonial ' in the way of late dinners, only 3s. a time, which is how we stand now. We are camped in the bush which, considering the price of things, is very cheap by the Modder River, and our horses and cattle and nine courses, and didn't I make up for lost time ! I mules are grazing around us. Thanlv Heaven ! I have watched I didn't miss anything. We started on a Colonial horse, which one can turn loose and will feed macaroni soup, two kinds of stews, two ditto roasts, itself well. I don't know what the English horses will two ditto boiled, and two ditto duffs. And now 1 am manage to live on. We are very short of matches here. going to rejoin for the I see a Scots Grey on road to Pretoria, when a \ery thin horse stop- there will be plenty of ping to get a light for starvation camps his pipe at our tire." again ! O, for the life of a Colonial swell soldier ! with THE DEVON'S IN- "There are lots of BESIEGED LADVSiMITII funerals pass here — Serceaxt (jEORC.E twenty-three yesterdav. Bean, of the ist Devon The fever sends half of Regiment, writes as

them home. I sneaked follows to a friend : — out and bought some "Arcadia Camp, buns this morning — near Ladysmith, eight for a shilling. It April 6th, igoo. is a lovely day, the sun " I am in xnvy good shining beautifully. I health up to the present. feel Ai again, but the I went over to the 2nd winter (or the rainy Battalion's camp two season) is coming, and days after they marched

I don't want that. Roll into Ladysmith, and I on, Time, when we can can assure you it was get a furlough, and pleasure untold to me then for a t^ood lont^ and others of my bat- talion to see so many angloboerwar.com old faces — men who THE CAPTURE OF have drilled with me CRONJE and under me at Alder- A British officer, shot and in India. To writing between Kim- describe to you our berley and Bloemfon- hardships would fill a tein on February 23rd, nice little book. For says: "Here we are, instance, we had to be having got Cronje and up e\ery morning be- his men in a trap. fore daylight and stand He was crossing the to arms, and then at river, and French's 6.30 we got four ounces Division lieaded him of bread made from off, while Kitchener '

his escaping or being relieved by other troops. I am the men dysentery ; no \egetables to be got for love tv\-o with General French's Division still. Yesterday I saw nor money ; and then at 4.30 we got ounces Lord Roberts and had a conversation with him as to of meal, cooked like porridge, and a pint of water -he chances of our advance on Bloemfontein. We are called tea or coflee, but which was a very poor 'Jelayed by want of food. Now we are on half rations, substitute. This we had to fight on. We had a lot that that affects me (except in the bread and biscuit few minor engagements before January 6th, which 'ine), as we can always capture mutton and fowls in the was a good fight and which the General said was saved

idvance line ; we have also a cow, which supplies us by us, as I expect you know by now. Now we are out vith milk. But all these things will have to be left in health camp awaiting orders where to go and when, behind when we march. We hear that a lot of men of as the doctors say we are not quite fit yet to proceed he Boer force at Ladysmith are being relieved and after our four months' prison life under bad rations. lent^by speiciar trains, presumably— to protect Bloem- You must please excute my bad paper and scribble, as bntein. ... .'-We have had a large number of men, it is all I have got at present, for we are over seven :illed in trying to ' rush ' Cronje, chiefly from the High- in'les from town and not allowed a pass to g"oin,so — —

MAV 20, 1903. BLACK AND WHlTIi. BUDGET^ 253 — you can see how we are situ- J. G. R. (.^ndover, Hants) writes as follows : " 1

iited ; still, we are hoping- for have a family of boys who are following your papei the best and thanking the each week from cover to cover, and I know of nc people at home in our hearts other paper that gives a working man a better for their kind presents- of chance of following the war,, and better than that,

tobacco, clothing, &c. , which! giving" the actual people and places, as it were. Il

we have received since we were 1 is indeed a boon to us to get so much and so good relieved. I cannot describe to a paper for the small sum of twopence, and so, on

you the feelings of the garrison 1 behalf of my boys, 1 thank you for having publishec wlien General Buller's force so valuable a paper." We thank our correspondeni j

marched in ; as for myself, I for his kind letter, and take the opportunity to re- felt nearly choked with gkid- mark that we have^ received countless communica- ness, &c. O, what a joyful tions bestowing praise on our efforts in the same time it was, seeing so many generous fashion. bronzed and healthy faces J. A. H. (London). —We are glad you appreciate our alongside of our pinched and double rules round illustrations. As you say, il

white ones ; and when our shows them up admirably. We will endeavour, to two battalions met they could the best of our ability, to carry out your wishes, not hold our men back from and are grateful for your high opinion of us. breaking into the ranks, and M. P. (Newcastle-on-Tyne) sends us a poem written at there was such shouting and Spearman's Camp a few weeks ago, from which SjKvyn \^"ilkinson, 33tli Com- rejoicing that I am sure they we quote the chorus : pany (Draft), X Batt., I.V. must have tliought we were ' Then here's to the gallant Dublins, and the bra\e old mad. Still, it was grand." Connaughts, too. The Border lads undaunted, and the Inniskillings CORRESPONDENCE true, Side by side they fought and died, cacli man beside .\. E. S. (Wednesbur}). —Thanks for letter and enclo- his ' pal,' sure. We have already published Mr. Labram's Fighting for England's honour on the borders ol portrait, standing beside " Long Cecil."- Natal." F. D. (St. Pancras). —Thanks for your letter. We are glad that the Southampton Road district of the St. Pancras Carnival intend presenting a replica of the Trooper Selwvn Wilkinson, of the 38th Company drawing of the surrender of Cronje to Roberts on (Draft), X Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, in Souti; INIajuba Da\- on the Queen's —Birthda)'. Africa, whose portrait we publish on this page, em- P.W. (.-Vcton) writes as follows: "' Loot' is the Hindi barked on the Canada on April 14th. He is an Austra- word for.plunder, and is derived from the Sanskrit lian by birth, but was educated at St. Edward's School lotiain, loptrain of the same meaning. Lobtrain Oxford. He is, moreover, a fine horseman and shot, is a formation from angloboerwar.comthe Sanskrit verb hip, to and a capital all-round athlete. Mr. Selwyn Wilkin- plunder, which is etymologically the same word as son is the only son of Mr. H. E. Wilkinson, who ha the English ' rob,' cognate with ' reave,' Latin been for many years associated with medical journalisn: rapere." in London, and a grandson of the Rev. H. J. Wilkin- a' J. C. (Inverary) writes as follows with regard to the son, chaplain to the Victorian forces, stationed

nationality of the gallant Cameron Highlanders : Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia. The Rev. Mr. Wilkin "With two or three exceptions, all officers of both son, it will be remembered, was with the Victorian con- battalions bear well-known Scots names — four tingent at the time of the Queen's Jubilee celebrations. Camerons, three Campbells, Erasers, Gordon,

Murray, Stewart, McLean, &c. , &c. I know several of the officers and some of the men. In fact, I have a cousin in the battalion. When the ist Battalion left Cairo it was reported that all the men were Scottish except about a dozen, and when the 2nd Battalion left Scotland for Aldershot two years ago General Trotter described them as almost purely Scottish and of that mostly Highland. Of course, there is bound to be a small proportion of English and Irish among them." M. J. and K. G. (Ealing) write to point out that Mr. W. L. Forster, of the Worcestershire county cricket team, is among the cricketers now at the front. He Is not a Warwickshire cricketer, as we had stated, by a slip of the pen. J. F. (jr. (Honor Oak Park). —Thanks for your interest- ing letter, stating that you have heard the hero of Mafeking's family name pronounced Bar-den Poole in Brisbane. You may take it from us, however, that the accepted pronunciation in this country is Bay-den Po'el. T. F. E. (Larne). —Thank j-ou for your very interest- ing letter and offer, of which we regret that the exigencies of space will not allow us to avail our- selves. BiR.viiXGiiAM Reader. —Tlianks for your letter and enclosure. We regret, however, that the likeness \ is not suitable for reproduction in Black and A clieerfu! convalescent : Sergeant Phillips, one of the wounded in While Budi^et. No. 3 General Hospital at Rondebosch 254 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET May 26, 1900

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