[301] See [Appendix 2 (Q)].
[302] When the author visited Slabbert’s Nek in 1907 he found the grave well kept, and marked by handsome cross of white marble. The graves at Bethlehem were also in good order.
[303] See [Appendix 2 (Q)].
[304] Lance-Corporal Doyle was promoted to be corporal on July 26, 1900.
[305] See [Appendix 2 (Q)].
[306] In South Africa every estate in the country is called a farm, but this is a misnomer, for no Boer landowner (at least before the war) thought of working his estate as a farm in the European sense of the word. He was indifferent to agriculture, and devoted his land to the raising of stock. By Australians the Boer farms would be called runs; by Canadians from the north-west of the Dominion they would be described as ranches.
[307] Official History, vol. iii. p. 380.
[308] In Hamilton’s Force were soldiers from all parts of the British Empire. The Divisional troops were Brabant’s Horse (South African volunteers); two batteries of Royal Field artillery; four guns of a Canadian volunteer battery; the “Elswick battery,” manned by artisans, volunteers from the north of England; two 5-in. guns, and a section of pom-poms.
Mahon’s Force was composed of a battery of Royal Horse artillery; a section of pom-poms; the Imperial Light Horse (South African volunteers); Lumsden’s Horse (volunteers from India, largely recruited from planters in Behar); a battalion of Imperial Yeomanry (volunteers from the Old Country); a squadron of Hussars, and mounted volunteers from Queensland and New Zealand.
Infantry brigades—Smith-Dorrien’s: the first battalions of the Royal Scots, Royal Irish, and Gordon Highlanders, and the mounted infantry of the City Imperial volunteers; Cunningham’s: 1st battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 2nd battalion Royal Berkshire regiment, 1st battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.