[103] Native infantry soldiers of the Indian army. The native cavalry soldier is a "sowar."
[104] On the right bank of the Jumna. It was created capital of India in place of Calcutta in 1911.
[105] British general, of great physical strength and lofty, winning character. Born 1821, killed at Delhi 1857.
[106] Capital of the Transvaal. Entered by Roberts on June 5, 1900.
[107] The Prince of Wales went to the front as a member of Sir John French's Staff in the middle of November 1914.
[108] Ruler of Jodhpur, the largest state of Rajputana, India. He was born in 1844.
[109] In his book Forty-one Years in India, Lord Roberts gives us a story showing the valour of this most famous of Indian soldiers. Roberts had wounded a boar, which attacked Pertab Singh, whose horse had fallen with him. The prince held the boar with his bare hands until Lord Roberts was able to come up and dispatch it. The boar's head was presented by the prince to Lord Roberts, and became one of his cherished possessions at his country house of Englemere, Ascot.
[110] See Vol. II., p. 7.
[111] From With French in France and Flanders, by an Army Chaplain.
[112] The Minenwerfer, or trench-mortar used by the Germans, has a range of some 500 or 600 yards, and throws a bomb loaded with high explosives, weighing up to 200 lbs. It is fired at extreme elevation from the bottom of a pit in the trench.