South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8): From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899Creswicke, Louis
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South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8): From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
Creswicke, Louis
South African War, 1899-1902; Transvaal (South Africa) -- History
Highland Brigade (Staff)--Killed: Major-General Wauchope.
Seriously wounded: Lieutenant Macleod (West Riding Regiment).
Wounded: Lieutenant Wauchope (2nd Royal Highlanders),
Lieutenant Vaughan (1st York and Lancaster Regiment), slightly.
2nd Royal Highlanders--Killed: Lieut.-Colonel Coode,[9] Captain
Elton, Lieutenant Edmonds, Captain Hon. Cumming Bruce, Captain
MacFarlan, Lieutenant Ramsay. Wounded: Major Cuthbertson,
Captain Cameron, Lieutenant St. J. Harvey, Lieutenant Berthon,
Lieutenant Tait, Second Lieutenant Bullock, Second Lieutenant
Drummond, Second Lieutenant Innes. Slightly wounded: Major
Duff, Major Berkeley, Lieutenant J. Harvey. 2nd Seaforth
Highlanders--Killed: Captain J. R. Clark, Lieutenant Cox,
Second Lieutenant Cowie, Captain Brodie. Missing: Major K. R.
Mackenzie. Wounded: Captain Featherstonhaugh, Lieutenant
Chamley, Second Lieutenant Waterhouse (dangerously), Second
Lieutenant Hall, Second Lieutenant Wilson, Second Lieutenant
Clive, Second Lieutenant Baillie. 1st Highland Light
Infantry--Killed: Captain Cowan, Captain Lambton. Wounded:
Lieut.-Colonel Kelham (slightly), Captain Noyes (severely),
Captain Wolfe Murray (slightly), Captain Richardson, Second
Lieutenant A. J. Martin, Second Lieutenant Knight, Second
Lieutenant Fraser, 1st Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders--Killed: Lieut.-Colonel Goff.[10] Wounded: Major
Robinson (since died), Lieutenant Graham, Second Lieutenant
King, Second Lieutenant Scott (seriously), Captain Campbell
(slightly). 1st Gordon Highlanders-of wounds: Captain Wingate.
Dangerously wounded: Lieut.-Colonel Downman,[11] Captain W. E.
Gordon, Second Lieutenant Campbell. Seriously
wounded: Captain Macnab. Guards Brigade.--1st Coldstream
Guards--Wounded: Lieut.-Colonel Codrington, Major Hon. W.
Lambton, Captain J. Sterling, Second Lieutenant W. Beckwith,
Second Lieutenant G. Follett. 2nd Coldstream Guards--Killed:
Major the Marquis of Winchester.[12] Cavalry Brigade
(Staff)--Wounded: Captain Briggs (1st Dragoon Guards),
Brigade-Major. Mounted Infantry--Killed: Major Milton, Major
Ray (1st Northumberland Fusiliers). Wounded: Lieut.-Colonel
Bigron (Australian Artillery) (attached), and Lieutenant Cowie.
Royal Horse Artillery--Wounded: Lieutenant Tudor (G Battery)
and Major Maberley. Royal Army Medical Corps--Wounded:
Lieutenant Douglas. Taken prisoner: Major C. H. Burtchaell.
FOOTNOTES:
[9] Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Collier Coode, of the 2nd Battalion
Royal Highlanders (Black Watch), entered the army in 1875, obtained his
company in 1882, was major in 1890, and lieutenant-colonel in June 1898.
From 1884 to 1889 he was an adjutant of the Auxiliary Forces, but until
the present campaign had seen no active service.
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