THE RECORD OF A REGIMENT OF THE LINE

BEING

A REGIMENTAL HISTORY OF THE 1ST BATTALION DEVONSHIRE REGIMENTDURING THE BOER WAR 1899-1902

BY COLONEL M. JACSON

London: HUTCHINSON & CO.

Paternoster Row 1908

CONTENTS

I. EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE SIEGE OFLADYSMITH

II. SIEGE OF LADYSMITH

III. EVENTS FOLLOWING THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH,AND THE ADVANCE NORTH UNDER. SIR REDVERS BULLER

IV. LYDENBURG

V. TREKKING IN THE NORTH-EAST TRANSVAAL

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MONUMENT ERECTED TO OFFICERS AND MENOF THE DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT WHO FELL ON JANUARY 6TH ON WAGON HILL,SIEGE OF LADYSMITH.

EN ROUTE TO LADYSMITH

IN THE TRENCHES, LADYSMITH

TOWN HALL, LADYSMITH, CLOCK-TOWER DAMAGEDBY SHELL FIRE

AFTER A WET NIGHT IN THE TRAVERSES,LADYSMITH

THE RAILWAY BRIDGE, WITHCÆSAR'S CAMP IN DISTANCE, LADYSMITH

LIEUT.-COLONEL C.W. PARK

NAVAL BATTERY HILL,LADYSMITH

A PEACEFUL SUNDAY

DEVON OFFICERS REMAINING FITFOR DUTY AT THE END OF THE SIEGE

BRIGADIER-GENERAL WALTERKITCHENER

RAILWAY BRIDGE DESTROYED BYBOERS, INGAGANE

MAKING BARBED-WIREENTANGLEMENT, INGAGANE

THE BAGGAGE OF GENERALBULLER'S ARMY CROSSING BEGINDERLYN BRIDGE

TREKKING WITH GENERAL BULLER

DEVONS CROSSING THE SABIRIVER

COLONEL C.W. PARK, MISSION CAMP,LYDENBURG

WIRE BRIDGE, LYDENBURG

MISSION CAMP FORT, LYDENBURG(INTERIOR)

REMAINS OF BOER BIG GUN,WATERVAL

CROSSING THE STEELPORTRIVER

DAWN—AFTER A NIGHT MARCH,TRICHARDTSFONTEIN

DEVONS EN ROUTE TO DURBAN

MONUMENT ERECTED INLADYSMITH CEMETERY

PREFACE

BY LIEUT.-GENERAL W. KITCHENER

Experience we all know to be a valuable asset, and experience inwar is the most costly of its kind. To enable those coming after usto reconstruct the picture of war, Re

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