OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| CAPTAIN NOBLETT (MAJOR ROYAL IRISH RIFLES), COMMANDING B COMPANY LUMSDEN’S HORSE | [142] |
| CAPTAIN H. CHAMNEY | [152] |
| CAPTAIN NEVILLE C. TAYLOR | [156] |
| H.C. LUMSDEN (KILLED IN ACTION, HOUTNEK, APRIL 30, 1900) | [159] |
| LIEUTENANT C.E. CRANE | [162] |
| J.H. BURN-MURDOCH | [163] |
| HERBERT N. BETTS, D.C.M. | [167] |
| MAJOR EDEN C. SHOWERS (KILLED AT HOUTNEK) | [175] |
| BUGLER R.H. MACKENZIE | [187] |
| E.B. PARKES | [187] |
| DAVID STEWART FRASER | [193] |
| WATERVAL PRISON, PRETORIA | [206] |
| PERCY JONES, D.C.M. | [228] |
| LIEUTENANT G.A. NEVILLE | [234] |
| LIEUTENANT H.O. PUGH, D.S.O. | [242] |
| WALTER DEXTER, D.C.M., CUTTING THE TELEGRAPH WIRES AT ELANDSFONTEIN | [243] |
| P.C. PRESTON, D.C.M. | [244] |
| CAPTAIN RUTHERFOORD, D.S.O. | [263] |
| CAPTAIN W. STEVENSON, VETERINARY SURGEON | [268] |
| SERGEANT ERNEST DAWSON | [269] |
| A TYPICAL BOER | [275] |
| CAPTAIN CLIFFORD | [277] |
| J.A. GRAHAM, D.C.M. | [278] |
| BERNARD CAYLEY | [279] |
| L.C. BEARNE | [280] |
| A HALT ON THE MARCH TO BARBERTON: GENERAL MAHON AND COLONEL WOOLLS-SAMPSON | [339] |
| SERGEANT STEPHENS | [346] |
| CAPTAIN C. LYON SIDEY | [352] |
| D. MORISON | [354] |
| CORPORAL J. GRAVES | [355] |
| LANCE-CORPORAL JOHN CHARLES | [376] |
| J.S. COWEN | [382] |
| SWORD OF HONOUR PRESENTED TO LIEUTENANT-COLONEL LUMSDEN | [407] |
| A. NICHOLSON | [414] |
| G.D. NICOLAY | [416] |
| H. KELLY | [417] |
| K. BOILEAU | [418] |
MAP
| PART OF SOUTH AFRICA, SHOWING THE ROUTES TAKEN BY LUMSDEN’S HORSE | facing page | [490] |
Photo: Elliott & Fry
SIR PATRICK PLAYFAIR, C.I.E.
THE
HISTORY OF LUMSDEN’S HORSE
INTRODUCTION
To Lumsden’s Horse belongs the high honour of having represented all India in a movement the magnitude and far-reaching effects of which we are only beginning to appreciate. While the stubborn struggle for supremacy in South Africa lasted, no true sons of the Empire allowed themselves to count the cost. Some were prepared to pay it in blood, others in treasure, to make success certain, and none allowed himself to harbour even the shadow of a thought that failure, with all its inevitable disasters, could befall us so long as the Mother Country and her offshoots held together. At the outset only those blessed with exceptional foresight could have believed in the completeness of a federation the elements of which were bound together by no other ties than sentiment. Selfish interests were merged in combined efforts for the common weal, and, while the necessity for action lasted, few cared to reckon the price they were paying for an idea.