E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Martin Pettit, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) TWO YEARS ON TREK Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa. By the Late LT.-COLONEL DU MOULIN. With a Preface by Col. J. G. Panton, C.M.G. Commanding 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, 1903-1907. Edited By_ H. F. Bidder, Captain, 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. Murray and Co., The Middlesex Printing Works, 180, Brompton Road, S.W. 1907. THIS BOOK WRITTEN FOR THE MOST PART BY THE LATE LT.-COL. DU MOULIN HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND PUBLISHED BY HIS COMRADES AS THE MOST FITTING MEMORIAL TO A GALLANT SOLDIER. DULCE · ET · DECORUM · EST · PRO · PATRIA · MORI CONTENTS. Chap. Page. I. TO BLOEMFONTEIN. 1 II. THE 21ST BRIGADE. THE TREK BEGINS. 13 III. TO ZAND RIVER. 28 IV. THE FIGHT AT ZAND RIVER. 39 V. ACROSS THE VAAL. 50 VI. DOORNKOP. 60 VII. PRETORIA. 69 VIII. DIAMOND HILL, FIRST DAY. 79 IX. DIAMOND HILL, SECOND DAY. 84 X. TO SPRINGS. 95 XI. TO REITZ. 105 XII. TO MEYER'S KOP. 117 XIII. RETIEF'S NEK. 126 XIV. TO THE BOER LAAGER. 144 XV. TO WINBURG. 162 XVI. UP AND DOWN. 173 XVII. TO LINDLEY. 185 XVIII. THE RAILWAY NEEDS REPAIR. 202 XIX. TO BOTHAVILLE. 215 XX. VENTERSBURG ROAD. 225 XXI. BACK TO LINDLEY. 234 XXII. IN GARRISON. 247 XXIII. THE RAISING OF THE MOUNTED COLUMN. 257 XXIV. TWO DISTRICTS. 273 XXV. DE PUT. 282 XXVI. TO VLAKFONTEIN. 291 XXVII. ABRAHAM'S KRAAL. 301 XXVIII. NORTHWARDS--AND THE END. 308 XXIX. THE THIRD BATTALION. 319 APPENDICES. _PREFACE._ _Louis Eugène du Moulin was of French descent. By birth he was a New Zealander. He passed through Sandhurst and entered the army in 1879, joining the 107th Regiment--now the Second Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment. With this battalion all his service was spent, until his promotion in 1899 as second in command of the First Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (the old 35th)._