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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, Regimental Histories have provedof infinite value. That such a record fills a sentimental wanthardly requires assertion.

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

From this standpoint, and as I was the General under whom the1st Devons served longest in South Africa, it seemed obviously myduty to attempt the task.

The "Work of the 1st Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment" isportrayed in these pages. It therefore only remains for me to add,for the benefit of coming generations, what manner of men thesewere, who by their dogged devotion to duty helped to overcome theBoer. Associated as one was with many corps in the close intimacy