angloboerwar.com MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY JOHN THORNTON HILDYARD, C.B.. Warren's successor in the command of the Fifth Division, which has done such splendid work under him in driving the Boers out of Natal, is in his fifty-fourth year, and, like French, tried the sea first ; for he was educated at the Royal Naval Academy at Gosport, entering' the Na\T in 1859. Eight years later, however, he joined the Army, and in 1876 he became a captain in the Highland Light Infantry. He served with distinction in the Egyptian Expedition of 1882, being present at Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir, receiving several decorations and being made a Brevet-Lieut. -Colonel. Then he became D.A.A.G. , and A.A.G. at headquarters, A.A.G. at Aldershot, and, from 1893 to 1898, Commandant of the Staff College, a capacity in which his versatility enabled him to be no less successful than he was previously on the field of battle. In '98 he took up the command of the Third Brigade at Aldershot, going to the front last year with the Second Infantry Brigade, whose battalions were among the first troops to embark. 290 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET Juke o, 1900 NOW READY. VOLUMES I. AND ir. BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET, Bound in handsome embossed cloth covers, with gilt letters, Price ds. Post free, 6s. 3d. CLOTH COVERS FOR BINDING BLACKangloboerwar.comAND WHITE BUDGET Price IS. 6d. Post free is. 8d. This Case is made to contain the extra Number THE QUEEN IN IRELAND. ALL BACK NUMBERS ARE NOW IN PRLNZ AND CAN BE OBTAINED FROM ' ALL NEWSAGENTS AND BOOKSTALLS. « , June 9, 19C0 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET NOTICES All communications regarding Pictures and Articles to be addressed to The Editor, Black and White Bl'Dget, j^, Bouverie Street, London, E.C." 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General Marbot, a French- having no shirts to their backs, and but remnants of man, tells how his light boots once saved him from trousers left, their boots being soleless." In the good being- killed by Austrian Lancers. He led some Cuiras- old times they used to renew their clothing at the siers against a regiment of Croats, and, hurriedly re- expense of the enemy. In the Peninsular VVar, the tiring after the charge, Marbot had his horse killed. colonel of a ragged British regiment found himself Two mounted soldiers, however, gave him their hands, opposed to a newly-arrived French corps. Shouting and thus, half lifted from the ground, Marbot was "Charge, men, and we will clothe ourselves," he led carried at a great pace into safety. the attack, with so much success A fellow officer, who had the ordin- that nearly all his regiment g-ot new ary army boots on, was killed because clothes from the enemy ! could not keep pace with the he There is some mystery attached the feat. horses in attempting same to the Victoria Cross lately sold at When the late Villebois - Mareuil Sotheby's for ;/^io5. It was adver- was killed and his foreign legion tised as the honour gained by the captured, the horse of the deceased late Colonel R. H. M. Aitken in the Frenchman was secured by Trooper defence of the Residency of Luck- Henman, of the Berkshire Yeomanry, now, but his widow states that the and lie now rides it. He intends, if above Cross was never worn by the possible, to bring it homeangloboerwar.comafter the Colonel. It was lost before it could war. Old Commandant Wolmarans, be presented to him in 1857, and who was taken with Cronje, asked another, now in her possession, was " Bobs " to be allowed to keep the substituted. The V.C. first men- horse he had ridden for so tioned above was tiie many years, and the Com- property of the iate mander-in-Chief not only Major C. B. Judge, readily assented, but also in- and on behalf of his structed that the animal should widow it was sold at be kept in Cape Town at the Sotheby's as stated. expense of the Government till There are several in- tlie old man comes marching stances on record of his " '' " home again ! At trlcksas usual : B.-P." amusinga ciiiid on board the ss. Mexican soldiers havingparted (which has since gone down) in which he sailed for South Africa before the with theirV.C.'s fora Se\eral more instances have outbrealc of the war to collectors. occurred ot Boers being seen in good sum khaki. Four m<^n of Brabant's Horse were rece^ntly It is interesting to note that of the 135 field batteries wounded near Winburg by Boers thus dressed, now in existence 45 are on active service in South who had been able to get to close quarters without Africa, and that no fewer than 41 field batteries had to causing suspicion. However, a few days previously be formed to replace those at the front. At present there the enemy hurriedly evacuated Christiana owing- to a are 52 on home service, one In Egypt and 37 in India, report that the British were holding Scholman's Drift, the latter country being- two field batteries short of the and it turned out that the men in question were their regular establishment. own zarps dressed in khaki ! At the beginning of the It is very probable that Lord Roberts will fight his war some of the Australians and Canadians had narrow decisive battle with the Boers during this month of escapes, because they then wore smasher hats like the June, and it is a happy historical fact that the "month Boers, and were mistaken for such by our men. of roses" has seen some of the greatest of British The success of Lord Roberts in his greafmarch on victories — particularly against the Dutch. On the the Transvaal capital is mainly due to the rapidity of ist, 1666, Van Tromp and De Ruyter lost twenty-five his movements. He marches twenty miles a day with ships to the Duke of Albemarle ; on June 2nd, 1653, his army, constantly outflanking and pushing the dis- the British Fleet under Monk defeated the Dutch ordered Boers before him. It was by precisely similar under Van Tromp, and took or destroyed twenty of tactics that Napoleon, then only twenty-hve years old, the latter's ships ; and on the 3rd, 1655, the British made his reputation in the war against the Austrians under the Duke of York defeated the Dutcli off in Italy. He marched his soldiers thirty, milea and Harwich, taking eighteen ships, destroying fourteen, fought every day, and at the end of the campaign and blowing up the .Admiral (Opdam) and all his crew. had successively destroyed tliree arhiies and captured Altogether, as Mr. Kruger will find out, June is a very 40,oco .Austrians and 150 colours with not more than sultry month for Dutch and Boers alike ! June iSth, 30,0:0 men ! too, is Waterloo Day. ' — 292 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET June 9, ic,oo facts concerning him. ElofTs The Commandant Eloff who, just before Mafeking- 1 one or two more next was relieved, thought he had captured the phice, and clai m to fame occurred at Krugersdorp, in 1897, when, found that instead being the worse he and his eighty ? for liquor, he pub- men had been licly applied a foul " bagged," has an epithet to the interesting history. Queen. He was He is a grandson reprimanded by his Kruger, ^ grandfather and of Mr. » iw- — -- \ ^ and when the tried, but, of '-''' '^ "'^.- ' ^^;??^lBigiiMillWIB - Jameson raiders 1 :;-M course, he was let were making their off lightly. Indeed, "•! '- futile attempt, in V .•^^v just a year later, in 1896, he met them, Lfg April, 1898, he was and asked them appointed First what they were Lieutenant of one up to. For answer i?2i^ii^ of the Johannes- they arrested him, ^^ burg forts, with a *«—--. his salary of ;;^3co a and took horse .;,jSSSf^ ^^m^^^ ^R^' year allow- away ; and when end en he protested Col. *" ance of 2s. 6d. per Grey said, " You day for rations ! can protest as il Apropos of the much as you like," event, the African but Dr. Jameson View of Kroonstad Club House : President Steyn made the town the second Critic printed the capital of the Orange Free State released him. following verse : ' But that is not by any means our interesting Eloff, my Eloff, oh ! where have you been ? the Queen!' prisoner's only claim to fame ; and, inasmucli as he At Krugersdorp, Grandpa, insulting lias played a not altogether unimportant part in the Eloff, my Eloff, 'tis shocking indeed ! history of the present war, it is interesting to relate ' Excuse me, dear Grandpa, I've followed your lead!'" angloboerwar.com Opening ceremony at the Kroonstad Waterworks, showing the prominent citizens assembled in the Market Square.