[Photo by R. Stanley & Co.
Widow of General Symons, and promoter of a fund for the widows and orphans of soldiers.
[Photo by R. Stanley & Co.
Who fell in the assault on the Boer position commanding Dundee.
But on October 1 good fortune once more intervened to save our empire. The Transvaal commandoes had assembled, but transport and commissariat were so defective that the Boers were in danger of starvation. The want of rain, too, had left the veldt bare and dry, without grass or sustenance for horses and cattle. It would, therefore, be almost impossible without commissariat for men and beasts to subsist. Delay was thus forced upon the Boers. The transport arrangements were improved, while the commandoes watched eagerly for the first rains, due in early October, which were to be the signal of action for them, and of slaughter for the hapless British soldiery.
[Photo by Gregory.
A Pipe-Major of the Scots Guards starting for the front.