especially distinguished themselves and sustained severe loss.

OCTOBER 1901.

6.—General Walter Kitchener and General Bruce-Hamilton engaged Botha’s forces in the south-east of the Transvaal. Botha escaped to the north.

9.—Martial law extended to the whole of Cape Colony.

11.—Commandant Lotter sentenced to death. Death sentence on five members of his commando was commuted to penal servitude for life.

13.—Lieut.-Colonel Hon. J. Byng attacked laager at Jackfontein and captured eighteen prisoners.

15.—Major Damant took prisoner Adjutant Theron. Colonel de Lisle surprised laager at Wilge River and captured fifteen prisoners.

16.—Colonel Rawlinson returned to Standerton with twenty prisoners and many prizes.

21.—Colonel Lukin surprised Vander Venter’s laager near New Bethesda.

22.—Colonel Benson captured laager at Klippoortje.

23.—Gallant attack on laager in Pongola Bosch.

24.—Colonel von Donop’s brilliant defeat of 1000 Boers at Kleenfontein.

25.—Botha’s farm surrounded at Schimmelhoek. His papers captured.

26.—Colonel Benson repulsed attack on hi class="hangindent"s rearguard on the Steenkool Spruit.

27.—Colonel Williams’ force occupied the Witnek Pass and routed a strong body of Boers from the position.

30.—Attack on Colonel Benson’s force at Bakenlaagte. Colonel Benson and Colonel Guinness killed.

Colonel Kekewich captured a laager at Beestekraal.

NOVEMBER 1901.

2.—Patrol under Captain Walker captured twenty-one prisoners near Wolvekop.

7.—Attack on Piquetberg repulsed by garrison under Major Wilson and Town Guard.

General B. Hamilton commenced operations against Botha in the Eastern Transvaal.

8.—Major Wiggin (26th Mounted Infantry) surrounded laager near Mahamba. Fourteen prisoners secured.

9.—Line blown up at Myburg Siding by Fouché.

11.—Major Pack Beresford and detachment of South African Constabulary captured laager at Doornhoek.

13.—Squadron Imperial Yeomanry detached from Hickie’s force surprised and surrounded. Rescued by reinforcements.

14.—Rearguard of Colonel Byng’s column attacked near Heilbron by 400 of the enemy under De Wet. Boers repulsed. British loss considerable.

16.—Further captures by Major Wiggin within Swaziland border.

18.—Lieutenant Welshman with patrol of West Yorkshire Regiment surprised party of Boers and captured eight prisoners.

20.—Engagement with Buys near Villiersdorp. Major Fisher killed. Buys captured by Colonel Rimington.

Captain Elliot successfully engaged Boers in Griqualand. Captain Elliot killed. Three officers wounded.

24.—General Dartnell, with Highland Light Infantry, engaged Boers near Harrismith. Captured twelve and killed two.

Offer of Canadian Government to raise 600 more troops for service in South Africa accepted.

25.—General Dartnell’s force surprised Boers near Bethlehem and took twelve prisoners.

26.—Lord Basing engaged Joubert in Orange River Colony. Joubert wounded and captured.

Major Pack Beresford attacked convoy near Paardeberg.

27.—Imperial Light Horse under Colonel Mackenzie took twenty-four prisoners, &c.

Attack on Colonel Rimington’s rearguard by De Wet repulsed. Many prisoners taken.

28.—Van Rensburg and thirteen burghers captured by Colonel Lowry Cole in Wepener district.

DECEMBER 1901.

1.—General Elliot reached Kroonstad with 15 prisoners, 114 waggons, 89 carts, 2470 cattle, and 1280 horses.

3.—Colonel Colenbrander broke up Badenhorst’s commando, and took fifteen prisoners and all the waggons.

4.—Laager surprised at Oshoek (twenty miles from Ermelo) by Spens’ and Rawlinson’s columns. Ninety-three prisoners taken.

7.—Colonel C. Mackenzie, in night march towards Watervaal (Eastern Transvaal), took sixteen prisoners.

Colonel Holland surprised Brand’s laager and took six Boers.

11.—Badenhorst and twenty-two burghers secured by Colonels Colenbrander and Dawkins, near Zandriverspoort.

13.—Brilliant surprise of Boers by General B. Hamilton at Witkraus. Laager broken up. One of Benson’s guns recovered.

15.—Secretary of State for War congratulated General Bruce-Hamilton on his brilliant achievements.

16.—Haasbroek killed in encounter with Colonel Barker’s men in the Doornberg.

Capture of Kruitzinger by Colonel Dorans’ and Lord Charles Bentinck’s columns.

18.—Colonel Steele, with South African Constabulary, captured thirty-six Boers in the region of the Magaliesberg.

Four hours’ fighting between De Wet and General Dartnell. Boers driven off.

Lord Methuen reported capture of thirty-two Boers.

19.—Colonel Allenby captured thirty-two of the enemy near Heidelberg.

20.—Colonel Damant attacked by 800 Boers. Two officers killed, three wounded. Boers repulsed.

21.—Capture of Smuts’ convoy, near Bothwell, by Colonel Mackenzie.

22.—Seven hundred Cape raiders attacked columns of Colonels Wyndham and Crabbe. Were driven off with loss of five killed and twenty wounded.

23.—Successful attack on Grobelaar’s laager by General B. Hamilton.

24.—Colonel Du Moulin surprised laager near Jagersfontein. Captured two Field-Cornets and twenty other Boers.

25.—Colonel Firman’s camp at Tweefontein rushed by huge force under De Wet.

28.—Successful engagement near Burghersdorp by Colonel Price. Field-Cornet Jan Venter killed.

JANUARY 1902.

3.—Capture of General Erasmus by General Bruce-Hamilton.

10.—Surprise of laager near Ermelo by Colonel Wing and capture of forty-two prisoners.

12.—More captures by General B. Hamilton.

13.—Fight for a convoy by De Villiers. Gallant charge of Munster Fusiliers.

16.—Capture of laager and twenty-four prisoners by Lord Methuen.

18.—Execution of Scheepers on various charges of murder at Graaff Reinet.

Night expedition to Witbank. General Hamilton secured more prisoners.

21.—Colonels Park and Urmston engaged party of Boers under Muller and Trichardt, occasioning stampede of Boer Government from Houtenbek.

24.—Important captures by General Plumer’s troops. Thirty burghers secured by Colonel Fry, West Yorkshire Regiment.

Attack on Pietersburg repulsed. Volunteer Town Guard distinguished itself.

25.—Capture of Viljoen near Kruger’s Post by detachment of Royal Irish under Major Orr.

26.—Successful