Footnote 70: Pay of Officers of the State Artillery:—
| Commandant | £700 | per annum. |
| Major | 600 | " |
| Captain | 500 | " |
| First Lieutenant | 350 | " |
| Second Lieutenant | 275 | " |
All ranks received a horse from the Government, a special board supervising the purchase and issue of remounts. Rations and uniforms were also free issues, and on a most generous scale to officers and men alike.
The pay of non-commissioned officers and men was as follows:—
| Warrant Officers | £180 and £150 per annum. |
| Farriers and Sergeants | 6s. 6d. a day. |
| Corporals | 5s. 6d." |
| Gunners | 5s. 0d."[Back to Main Text] |
Footnote 71: There were in addition an Intendance Service, Medical, Educational, Farriery, and Artificer staffs, and a band of 20 performers; all maintained in a high state of efficiency.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 72: During the war about 26,000 projectiles of various patterns were manufactured in Johannesburg. Both at that place and at Pretoria an immense amount of manufacturing and repairing of war material was effected, including the making of a new 120 m/m Howitzer and the shortening of a 6-in. Creusot.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 73: As many as thirty-nine ordinary burghers were noticed doing duty with a battery in action.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 74: The 6-in. Creusots were of somewhat peculiar construction, having narrow iron wheels, not at all promising the mobility which the Boers attained from them. The shell weighed 94 lbs., charge 20 lbs. black powder, bursting charge for shrapnel 5 lbs. melinite. Recoil was absorbed pneumatically.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 75: Three Krupp and three Maxims were on order in Europe, but were not delivered in time to reach the Free State capital.[Back to Main Text]