With the Flag to Pretoria: A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900. Volume 1Wilson, Herbert Wrigley
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With the Flag to Pretoria: A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900. Volume 1
Wilson, Herbert Wrigley
South African War, 1899-1902
The photograph shows the form of saddle which is used for transporting
the portions of a mountain battery. One mule is laden with the "chase"
of the gun itself, another with the breech, and two more with the
wheels and the trail.]
[Sidenote: Composition of the force.]
The army was now reorganised for the work before it. The following was
its new composition:--Under Sir Charles Warren for the flank movement
were the Second and Fifth Divisions; General Buller kept only the corps
troops under his immediate orders.
SECOND DIVISION.
LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR F. CLERY.
_Second Brigade._ _Fifth Brigade._
MAJOR-GENERAL HILDYARD. MAJOR-GENERAL HART.
2nd East Surrey. 1st Connaught Rangers.
2nd West Yorkshire. 1st and 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
2nd Devonshire. 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
2nd West Surrey. 1st Border Regiment.
7th, 64th, and 73rd Field Batteries.
FIFTH DIVISION.
LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR C. WARREN.
_Fourth Brigade._ _Eleventh Brigade._
MAJOR-GENERAL LYTTELTON. MAJOR-GENERAL WOODGATE.
1st Rifle Brigade. 2nd Royal Lancaster.
1st Durham Light Infantry. 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers.
3rd King's Royal Rifles. 1st South Lancashire.
2nd Scottish Rifles. 1st York and Lancaster.
19th, 28th, and 63rd Field Batteries.
CORPS TROOPS.
GENERAL (COMMANDING-IN-CHIEF) SIR R. BULLER.
_Tenth Brigade._
MAJOR-GENERAL COKE.
2nd Dorset.
2nd Middlesex.
2nd Somerset.
Imperial Light Infantry.
78th Field Battery, 61st Howitzer Battery, 4th Mountain Battery.
_Cavalry Division._
MAJOR-GENERAL LORD DUNDONALD.
13th Hussars.
1st Royal Dragoons.
South African Light Horse.
Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry.
Bethune's Mounted Infantry.
Natal Carbineers.
Mounted Infantry King's Royal Rifles.
Imperial Light Horse.
Naval guns (two 4·7 in., eight 12-pounders).
[Illustration: THE PRICE OF LOYALTY IN NORTHERN NATAL:
A farmhouse laid in ruins by the Boers.]
[Illustration:
[_Photo by Bassano._
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR C. F. CLERY, K.C.B.
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