| Died of disease | 174 | 7011 | | Accidental deaths | 5 | 200 | | +---------+----------+ | Total deaths in South Africa | 604 | 11,554 | | Missing and prisoners (excluding those | | | | who have been recovered or have | | | | died in captivity) | 7 | 898[C]| | Sent home as invalids | 1638 | 36,986[C]| | +---------+----------+ | Total, South African Field Force | 2249 49,438 | | | \ / | | | 51,687[D] | +------------------------------------------+---------+----------+ |Total reduction of the Military Forces | | | | through war in South Africa-- | | | | Deaths in South Africa | 604 | 11,554 | | Missing and prisoners | 7 | 898[D]| | Invalids sent home who have died | 4 | 243 | | Invalids sent home who have left the | | | | Service as unfit | ... | 1570 | | +---------+----------+ | | 615 14,265 | | | \ / | | | 14,380[E] | +------------------------------------------+--------------------+ FOOTNOTES: [C] Of these, 243 have died, 1570 have been discharged from the Service as unfit, and 654 are in hospital. [D] This total includes a number of men reported "missing" who subsequently rejoined, but whose return has not yet been notified. [E] The difference between these two numbers is due to the fact that the great majority of the men invalided home have recovered and rejoined for duty. (See note B.) [Illustration: T. C. & E. C. Jack. Edinburgh. MAP ILLUSTRATING GENERAL BULLER'S CAMPAIGN IN NATAL--MAY-JUNE 1900.] SOUTH AFRICA AND THE TRANSVAAL WAR CHAPTER I TO QUEEN VICTORIA "May children of our children say, 'She wrought her people lasting good; 'Her court was pure; her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen; 'And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet 'By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broadbased upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.'" --TENNYSON. PRETORIA