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Title: The Record of a Regiment of the Line
Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire
Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902

Author: M. Jacson

Release Date: June 3, 2005 [EBook #15972]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE RECORD

OF

A REGIMENT OF THE LINE

BEING

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

BY
COLONEL M. JACSON

London: HUTCHINSON & CO.
Paternoster Row 1908

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE SIEGE OF
LADYSMITH 1

II. SIEGE OF LADYSMITH 30

III. EVENTS FOLLOWING THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH,
AND THE ADVANCE NORTH
UNDER. SIR REDVERS BULLER 104

IV. LYDENBURG 149

V. TREKKING IN THE NORTH-EAST TRANSVAAL 176

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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

FACE PAGE

EN ROUTE TO LADYSMITH 5

IN THE TRENCHES, LADYSMITH 36

TOWN HALL, LADYSMITH, CLOCK-TOWER DAMAGED BY
SHELL FIRE 44

AFTER A WET NIGHT IN THE TRAVERSES, LADYSMITH 56

THE RAILWAY BRIDGE, WITH CAESAR'S CAMP IN
DISTANCE, LADYSMITH 62

LIEUT.-COLONEL C.W. PARK 66

NAVAL BATTERY HILL, LADYSMITH }
}
MONUMENT ERECTED TO DEVONS ON WAGON HILL, } 70
ON SPOT WHERE THE CHARGE TOOK PLACE, LADYSMITH }

A PEACEFUL SUNDAY 80

DEVON OFFICERS REMAINING F