A YEOMAN'S LETTERS

BY

P. T. ROSS

(Late Corporal 69th Sussex Company I.Y.)

ILLUSTRATED by the AUTHOR.

"And you, good Yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not."
Shakespeare.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON,
KENT & Co., LIMITED.
1901.

PRINTED BY BURFIELD & PENNELLS,
HASTINGS.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

• FOREWORD.
• The Sussex Yeomanry.
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• PART 1.
• On the Trek.
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• WITH ROBERTS.
• The Occupation of Johannesburg.
• Pretoria Taken.
• Diamond Hill and After.
• Back to Pretoria.
• Entertaining a Guest.
• The Mails Arrive.
• The Nitral's Nek Disaster.
• 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.
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• 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.
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