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

I. EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH

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 MEN OF 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 DAMAGED BY SHELL FIRE

AFTER A WET NIGHT IN THE TRAVERSES, LADYSMITH

THE RAILWAY BRIDGE, WITH CÆSAR'S CAMP IN DISTANCE, LADYSMITH

LIEUT.-COLONEL C.W. PARK

NAVAL BATTERY HILL, LADYSMITH

A PEACEFUL SUNDAY

DEVON OFFICERS REMAINING FIT FOR DUTY AT THE END OF THE SIEGE

BRIGADIER-GENERAL WALTER KITCHENER

RAILWAY BRIDGE DESTROYED BY BOERS, INGAGANE

MAKING BARBED-WIRE ENTANGLEMENT, INGAGANE

THE BAGGAGE OF GENERAL BULLER'S ARMY 
CROSSING BEGINDERLYN BRIDGE

TREKKING WITH GENERAL BULLER

DEVONS CROSSING THE SABI RIVER

COLONEL C.W. PARK, MISSION CAMP, LYDENBURG

WIRE BRIDGE, LYDENBURG

MISSION CAMP FORT, LYDENBURG (INTERIOR)

REMAINS OF BOER BIG GUN, WATERVAL

CROSSING THE STEELPORT RIVER

DAWN AFTER A NIGHT MARCH, TRICHARDTSFONTEIN

DEVONS EN ROUTE TO DURBAN

MONUMENT ERECTED IN LADYSMITH CEMETERY