A Yeoman's Letters
by P. T. Ross
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ross, P. T.
- Title
- A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Christine P. Travers, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa
- Subject
- South African War, 1899-1902 -- Personal narratives
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 27765
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27765
- Release Date
- January 10, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A YEOMAN'S LETTERS
- 2.P. T. ROSS
- 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.FOREWORD. — The Sussex Yeomanry. — Part I. ON THE TREK.
- 6.WITH ROBERTS. — The Occupation of Johannesburg. — Pretoria Taken. — Diamond Hill and After. [1] — Back to Pretoria. — Entertaining a Guest. — The Mails Arrive. — The Nitral's Nek Disaster.
- 7.WITH MAHON. — A General Advance to Balmoral and Back. — To Rustenburg. — Ambushed. — Heavy Work for the Recording Angel. — Relief of Eland's River Garrison. Join in the great De Wet hunt. — After De Wet. — The Yeoman, the Argentine and the Farrier-Sergeant. — Commandeering by Order.
- 8.WITH CLEMENTS. — Cattle Lifting. — Delarey gives us a Field Day. — Burnt to Death. — The Infection of Spring again. — Death of Lieutenant Stanley. — His Burial. — Promoted to Full Corporal. — Petty Annoyances—The Nigger. — A Wet Night. — The Great Egg Trick. — Our Friend "Nobby." — "The Roughs" leave us for Pretoria. — The breaking up of the Composite Squadron. — Life on a Kopje. — Death and Burial of Captain Hodge. — Camp Life at Krugersdorp. — Lady Snipers at Work. — Treatment of the Sick. — Veldt Church Service. — Comradeship.
- 9.IN HOSPITAL. — The Story of Nooitgedacht. — Two Field Hospitals—A Contrast. — Christmas in Hospital. — The Career of an Untruth. — The Sisters' Albums. — "Long live the King!" — The Irish Fusilier's Ambition. — "War without End." — Invitations—and a Concert. — Our Orderly's Blighted Heart. — Southward Ho! — R.A.M.C. Experiences and Impressions. — The Mythical and Real Officer. [10] — The R.A.M.C. Sergeant-Major, and other annoyances. — At the Base. — Another Album!! — Home.
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