Krugersdorp, 16/12/00 (8).
Commanding Officer's Remarks on Trek.
The Commanding Officer is very well pleased with the way the men marched in this trip, doing 102 miles in six days, an average of seventeen miles a day; also with their excellent conduct and the cheerful way in which all difficulties were met. The results of the trip were over 1000 head of sheep and cattle and seven waggons captured, thirty barns of forage burnt, and innumerable stocks of oat hay, some of which concealed ammunition.[Back to Contents]
XL.
Letter from General Hart.
Lieut.-Colonel Hicks, Commanding 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
The manner in which the encampment of your battalion is arranged deserves my special commendation. On very bad camping-ground, beset with rocks and bush, and afflicted with dust between, I find your companies excellently established by ingenious and industrious adaptation to circumstances. The regularity and tidiness are conspicuous, and have been noted by me with great satisfaction. I need not say how much neatness of arrangements must conduce to quickness and good quality of soldier work.
(Signed)
A. Fitzroy Hart,
Major-General Commanding Irish Brigade.
Fourteen Streams, May 20th 1900.[Back to Contents]