The Navy and the War: A Resume of Officers and Men mentioned in Despatches for the Operations in Natal 153-156 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _To face page_ TWENTY THOUSAND MEN ENCAMPED UNDER GENERAL BULLER _Frontispiece_ A BATTERY CROSSING THE LITTLE TUGELA 8 NAVAL BATTERY OF 4.7's AND 12-POUNDERS AT DURBAN 8 NAVAL BRIGADE PITCHING CAMP AT FRERE, DECEMBER, 1899 14 NAVAL GUNS IN ACTION AT COLENSO 22 LIEUT. BURNE'S GUNS FIRING AT SPION KOP 34 4.7 EMPLACED ON HLANGWANE 34 COLT GUN AT HLANGWANE FIRING AT BOERS 48 NAVAL 12-POUNDERS ADVANCING AFTER ALMOND'S NEK 70 4.7 ON A BAD BIT OF ROAD 70 BRINGING IN A BOER PRISONER 82 IN CAMP AT GRASS KOP 82 ONE OF LIEUT. HALSEY'S NAVAL 12-POUNDERS 82 LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR H. J. T. HILDYARD, K.C.B. 95 CAPTAIN PERCY SCOTT, C.B., R.N. 102 NAVAL 12-POUNDER EMPLACED 120 BOER GUN POSITIONS AT COLENSO 120 CAPTAIN E. P. JONES, R.N. 154 MAP _at end_ WITH THE NAVAL BRIGADE IN NATAL CHAPTER I Outbreak of the war -- The Transport Service and despatch of Army Corps from Southampton -- Departure of a Naval Brigade from England and landing at Capetown and Durban -- I join H.M.S. _Philomel_.