IT FOR DUTY AT THE
END OF THE SIEGE 102

BRIGADIER-GENERAL WALTER KITCHENER 104

RAILWAY BRIDGE DESTROYED BY BOERS, INGAGANE 108

MAKING BARBED-WIRE ENTANGLEMENT, INGAGANE 110

THE BAGGAGE OF GENERAL BULLER'S ARMY CROSSING
BEGINDERLYN BRIDGE 116

TREKKING WITH GENERAL BULLER 124

DEVONS CROSSING THE SABI RIVER 140

COLONEL C.W. PARK, MISSION CAMP, LYDENBURG 148

WIRE BRIDGE, LYDENBURG 160

MISSION CAMP FORT, LYDENBURG (INTERIOR) 170

REMAINS OF BOER BIG GUN, WATERVAL 180

CROSSING THE STEELPORT RIVER 182

DAWN--AFTER A NIGHT MARCH, TRICHARDTSFONTEIN 200

DEVONS EN ROUTE TO DURBAN 208

MONUMENT ERECTED IN LADYSMITH CEMETERY 218

MAPS

SIEGE OF LADYSMITH

NATAL AND S.E. TRANSVAAL

PREFACE

BY LIEUT.-GENERAL W. KITCHENER

Experience we all know to be a valuable asset, and experience in war is
the most costly of its kind. To enable those coming after us to
reconstruct the picture of war, Regimental Histories have proved of
infinite value. That such a record fills a sentimental want hardly
requires assertion.

My first feelings on being honoured with a request from the Devonshire
Regiment to write a preface to the account of their "Work in South
Africa, 1899-1902," were, I confess, How could I refuse so difficult a
task gracefully? However, on further consideration it seemed to me that
undoubtedly such a preface should be written by some one outside the
corps itself. Onlookers, as the saying goes, often see most of the game,
and, being free from personal bias, can often add something to what
those engrossed in the meshes of life's details can only appreciate from
a narrower point of view.

From this standpoint, and as I was the General under whom the 1st Devons
served longest in South Africa, it seemed obviously my duty to attempt
the task.

The "Work of the 1st Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment" is portrayed
in these pages. It therefore only remains for me to add, for the benefit
of coming generations, what manner of men these were, who by their
dogged devotion to duty helped to overcome the Boer. Associated as one
was with many corps in the close intimacy of veldt life, it was a study
of the deepest interest to not