The photograph represents the principal street in Queenstown as decorated on the occasion of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
General Gatacre takes command.
[Nov. 18-19, 1899.
On the 15th an armoured train with a small detachment of the Berkshires reconnoitred to a point well beyond Stormberg, and returned, without incident and without seeing anything of the enemy, to Queenstown. On November 18 General Gatacre himself arrived with his staff from Capetown, accompanied by a portion of the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles.
[Photo by Cumming, Aldershot.
Born 1843. Entered the Army in 1862; was Instructor of Military Surveying at the Royal Military College, 1875-9; Deputy-Adjutant and Q.M.G. with the Hazara Expedition, 1888; served in Burma, 1889, Chitral, 1895, Soudan, 1898, and commanded the British Division at the battle of Khartoum; in command of South-Eastern District, 1898; appointed to command the 3rd Division in South Africa, with rank of Lieut.-General, October, 1899.
PRESIDENT STEYN AND HIS GUARD OF HONOUR OF FREE STATE BURGHERS.