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INDEX.

AIRXY, LiaUTINANT-OOLOMBL H. p., D.8.0.
ARDAOH, IIAJOIU>aNBRAL BIR I. O
BABINaTON, MAJOR^BNBRAL J. H.
BADBN-POWBLL, MAJOR-OBNBRAIi R. 8. 8
BARTON, MAJOR-OBNBRAL O., O.B.
BBTHUNB. UBUTBNANT-OOLONBL B. a.
BLOOD. MAJOR-OaNBRAL BIR BINOOM. K.O.B.
BRABAZON. MAJOR-OBNBRAI., J. P., O.B.
BROOKLBHURBT. M AJOR-OBMBRAL J. F.. M.V.O.
BULLBR, OBNBRAL BIR RBDVBRB. V.O.. O.O.B.
OARRINUTON. LIBUTBN ANT-OBNBRAL. 8IR P., K.O.B.
OBOIL. BRBVBT MAJOR LORD BDWARD

CHAPMAN, OBNBRAL B. P

OHBRMBiOB, LIBOTBNANT-OBNBRAI. BIR H. O., O.O.M.O , R.B.

OHBBHAM, BRiaAOIBROBNBRAL LORD

0LBMBNT8, MAJOROBNBRAL R. A. P

OLBRT, UaUTBNANT-OBNBRAL BIR O. P., K.O.B.

OOKB, MAJOR-OBNBBAL J. TALBOT

OOLVILB, LIBUTBNANT^iaNBRAL SIR R. B., K.O.H.a.

DARTNBLL. BRIOADIBR-OBNBRAL J. a, O.M.O.

DIOKSON, MAJOR-OBNBRAI. J B. B., O.B.

DOOOLAB, MAJOR-OBNBRAL O. W. H.

DRURr-LOWB, LIBUTBNANT-OBNBRAL BIR DRURT, O O.B.

OONDOHALO, BRIOADIBR OBNBRAL OOUOLAB. M B.H., BARL OP. O.B., M.V.O.

PORBBTIBR-WALKBR. UBnTaNANT-OBNBRAL SIR P. W. B. P.. K.O.B.

PRBNOR, LIBUTBNANT OBNBRAL J. D P

OASBLBB, LIBOTBNANT-OBNBRAL BIR A.. K.O.B.

OATAORB. LIBUTBNANT-OBNilRAL BIR W., KO.B.

OOUOB. OBNBRAL SIR HUOH. K.O.B, VO

ORBNPBLL, OBNBRAL BIR P. W, a.OB, OO.M.O.

HAMILTON, LIBUTBNANT-OBNBRAL IAN, OB., D.B.0

HARRISON. OBNBRAL SIR RIOBARD, K.O.B

HART, MAJOROBNBRAL PITZROT. OB

HILDYARD. LIBUTBNABT OBN7<RAL H J. T., O.B.

HOWARD. MAJOR-OBNBRAL P.. O.B , A.DO.

HUNTBR, LIBOTBNANT.OBNBRAL SIR A . KO B.. O.B.O.

HUTTON, MAJOR OBNBRAL B. T. H.

KBKBWIOH. OOLONBL HO.

KBLLT-KBNNY. LIBUrBN ANT OBNBRAL T, OB.

KITORBNBR OP KHARTOUM, MVOR-OBNBRAL LORD, O.O B.

KNOX. MAJOR OBNBRAL O. B.

LBSBARD, LIBUTBNAHT«OL0NBL P L.

LOOKMART. THB LATB OBNBRAL BIR W . O.O.B.. B 0.8 I

LOW, LIBUTBNANT OBNBRAL BIR R. O.. 0.0..1

LUMBOBN, LIBUTBNANT-OOLONBL O. MoT.

LTTTBLTON, UBUTBNANT-OBNSRAL THB HON. N. O.. OX.

MAOOONALO, MAJOR-OBNBRAL B. A., O.B.

M AOKINNON, OOLONBL W H.

MARSHALL, MAJOROBNBRAL O. H

MoNBILL, MAJOR-OBNBRAL BIR J. O

MBTBbBN. LIBUTBNAM'r-OBNBRAL LORD, K.O.V.O., O.B.

MONTMORBNOT, THB LATB OAPTAIN THB HON. R. H. DH, V.C.

OTTBR. L.aUTBNANT-OOLCNBL W D.

PLUMBR. BRBVBT LIBUTBNANT-OOLONBL U O. O.

PULB4)ARBW. LIBUTBNANT-OBNBBAL R., OB.

PRBTTMAN, MAJOR-OBNBBAL O. T, O.B,

RIMIHOTON. MAJOR M. P.

ROBBRTS OP OANOAHAB. PIBLC-MAR8HAL LORD, V.O.

ROBBRTS, THB LATB LIBUTBNANT THB HON. P. H. S, V O.

RUNDLB, LIBUTBNANT-OBNBRAL BIR H, M, L., K.O.B.

RUBSBLU LtBUTBNANT^BNBRAL BIR BAKBR, O.OB., KOM.O

STBWART, THB LATB PIBLD-MARSHAL BIR DONALD M., BART.

BTMONS, THB LATB MAJOR-OBNBRAL SIR W. PBNN

THORNBTOROPT, LIBUTBNANT-OOLONBL A. W.

WARRBN. LIBUTBNANT OBNBRAL BIR 0., O.O.M.O.

WAUOROPB, THB LATB MAJOR-OKNBRAL A. O.. O.B.

WHITB, LIBUTBNANT OBNBRAL BIR OBOROB. VO.. OOB.

WILSON. LIBUTBNANT OBNBRAL SIR O., K.O.B., R. ■.

WINOATB. BRBVBT OOLONBL SIR P. R., K.O.M.O.

WOLBBLBT. PIBLD-MARSHAL V^BOOUNT, K.P

WOOD, OBNBRAL SIR H. B.. V.O., O O.B.

WOODOATB. THB LATB MAJOROBNBRAL BIR B. R. P., K a.K.O., OB

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Ri(;iiT Hon. SIR RFDVKRS BUI,I,1.R, V.C:., (J.C:.B., i re.

Cl)MMAMi|N(. IN NaTAI
/» //le Uni/ornt of C>'oiui t\'iiiiiutiui.tiit, A'inx ' Krval KifU ti'ifs.

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SIR REDVERS BULLER.

TI1I:RK is no «tron^.T ch.irart.T in tin; llriiish Army lii.ui th'' ivs, , Int.- almost ^r,„„ly
ivs,.luic, ..l.sMhit.lv in.l.i.riulrnt. utterly IrarK'SS, stisullast, an.l always vi;;nnuis
nmiman.l<r, whnlu. >l:;n-r..t(ir<Mt Itriiain's mliilary r.'i.utali.m in Natal at thr present
mum.ni. Wli.it linl!,rtni-iu luv Irm jl he iia.l not JMrn variousK favourci l.y lorimu!
it is liaraiv wortii \vhilr .lis.usMn-. |iut. xvliilr :4ivin:,' lull nv.lit to th.' soli.litv and sir.i.K'th
of tills m.irkrtl mililarv pcrsonalitv, it is onlv lair, in justio' to otli.Ts «lio lavf .lonr «HI or i
with iVwcr a.lvanta-.s.'to rfm.u-k th.it hr has in inanv ways iia.l a " (Ic.i.i.d pull. \\ ith l.imily
connections of the most aristoenitic ord.T-the liiill.rs .uc a very well-known ).vonshirc
tamilv anil Sir Kedvers's mother w.isa llowanl. and niece of the Duke .'I Norlolk-the ( .ener.il
Coininandin-in-rhief of the Forces in Natal is .dso. and for years has lKM:n, a wi^ilthy
man. to whom Armv ji.iv was no s,.rt of ohj.ct. Only those who know these tlun^js
cm underst.md uh.ii th.i't me.uis, mor<> .specially on th<' higher slopes ol the military
( )1\ inpiis.

liiit. f.imilv .md monev ap.irt, ibi're i'- no .^'I'ttin;,' ovir the l.ict th.it this hi^' lioneil,
seiuare-jawed, str piii^j-minded and stron;;-he.ided m.in was l>oin a soldier. ;\ soldier, too, ol the
very best Mnijlish type, needless to s ly tlu' hest tyjie of .ill. since, short of Oriental cunning,', it
combines th(' (iiialitkations most admired in every oth<r w.irlike nation. .Sm.irtness ask nvn
who knew him as a rej,rimental officer in the old Sixtieth Killes if Hiiller knows how to Ix-
smart. Hraverv - well, a Victoria Cross is fair evidenie of th.it, esoeci.illy if it is won twici;
over, as it w.is in iSiiller's case. .Sagacity those who serviil with him in .\shaiiti .md South
Africa would hesitate Ixfore namiii;.; an ofiicer who has ;i bettir .;rii) of !nti'llii;ence work than
Bnller. Administrative capacity the history of tin- British mllit.iry system in the clo-^ini,' y«-ars
of the nineteenth century has yet to lie written, .md wlun written will afford stranj^e reading.
But a feature of it will be the presentment of the man whoM' |>ortrait f.ues this \M'^r as the
■greatest — not necessarily the best Adjutant-Cuneral the lirilish Army has e\cr h.id. an
official who so exalted his |)osition that, only I)y an accident of parlianu iit.iry |ioliiics, w.is \w
prevented from becoming; tour y<'.irs a^jo </<• y«;c as well as rtV* /aid) the active controller ot the
British Army— a position to which, in the n.iture of such thin;;s, he has still every ri^ht to
asjiire.

Born in December, 1.S39, Sir Kedvers Bnller entered the 60th Rifles in ^!.ly, i.'^5.'^, and in
1866 was busily enL;ai.;ed in the thina War. In i,S70 he acidinp.mied Lord \\d|sele\ on the
K('il River l.xpedition. anti in 187V4 th'tl s|)leiulid service in die Ashanti War. In I1S7S (> he
was a leatling figure in the Kaffir War. ami the tales ol what he did in various lapacities woulil
fill a volume, (lis coinm.uul of " Buller's Horse " alone gav<.' him a title; to l)e r<'ckoned with the
most distinguished irregular cavalry leaders of his time, while his evirlasting grit and resolution
seemed somehow to permeate the wlioli' cinip.iign. In 1.S.S2 he w.is D.-A. and 0.-M,-( 1, for
Intelligence, and was present at I el-el-Kibir. In i.S,S4 he commanded an infantry brig. ide and
was .Second in Command of the Mxiiedition to the Soudan. :ind took part in the battles of l-.l Teb
and Tainai. In i.S,S4 5 he was Chief of tli<; .StafI of the Nile l^xjiedition, and commaiideil the
tnjops crossing the liayiula Desert. In 1.S.S7 he beianie Ouartermaster-Cien'_ral of the .\rmy,
anil from i.Stjn to 1807 he was Adjutaiu-Cieneral, first under the Duke of Cambridge, and
afterwards, for two years, under Lord Wolseley, In 1 S(>.S he was appointed to the command of
the .\klershot District, and, on the formation of a I'"ield I'orce for South .Afiica, he wa> first
apjioiiited to the comin.uid of the .\riny ("orps, ,ind afterw.inls, when the .Army Corps becan.e an
Army, he was retained in milit,ir\ charge of the situation in Natal. In the former capacity he
attempted an attack on the Boer posiliipn, which was repulsed with great loss .md this lailine for
a tiiiK; seemed to obscure Buller's military reputation. But he is made of stern stuff, and it m.iy
not b(; long before he has an opportunity of m)re thin obliterating the memory of a reverse, for
which it is by no means sure that he was primarily responsible.

COL. R. S. S. BADEN-POWELL.

1 1 v. war ill South Africa lias made and consolidjited several notable reputations, but,
IH-'rhaps, no sin^ric officer will have come out of it with a ;;reater accession of both
popularity and professional esteem than the ^'allant cavalryman who is commonly known
as, foil/ loini. " H.-l'." A few years a;^o iiad(;n- Powell was chielly known as a smart
anil resourceful Hussar, who had done j^ood work in Zululand in i.SSS, and was a reco^^nized
authority on p<ilo, pi;,'-stickin;^, and sport ^'enerally. The son of a well-known Oxford professor
he had entered the 13th Hussars at the ajj;(: of 10 in 1876, hail bi;en adjutant of his rejriment,
A. I). C. at tlu- Cape, and Assistant Military Secretary at Malta, and had won ihi; Kadir Cup
" after pijj " at Cawnpore. Hut he did not come to the front as a campai;,'ner imtil the Ashanti

Kxpedition of i8q6, when he was em|)loyed on special duty in charj;e of native levies, and,
incidentally, by the /><i//)' (,y//'(>///(7<' as a (Correspondent. His letters to the latter wen; after-
wards expanded into a volume entitled " The Downfall of I'rempeh," which proved him to

nsidiTable literary and descriptive owi
soldierini;,

possess considerable literary and descriptive ower. Indeed his intellectual ca()acity, apart from

tinij, as well as in literal

imiii^, is very marked, and in sin^in;,', |>amtin^', and amateur acting, as well as in literature,
this versatile .»(//;/(•//;• takes keen pleasure when not enj^aijed in the sterner pursuit of huntinjf men.

Ill iSo') Baden-Powell w.is sent to Matabeieland on sju'cial duty in connection with the
risinjj in the Matoppo Mills. Here he distiniiuished himself ;,freatly, both as a scout and as
|)ossessin;^' a ^reat inlluenie with the natives, anion;,' whom his sinj,ailar powers of keen
observation aTid accurate dedMction soon I'.irned him thi' titli; i>{ " He who sees by nijjnt." One
has only tci read his reciMitly pubiisiicd " .Aids to .Scoutin;,' " to realise that H.aden Powell is truly,
as someone has observed, a " prince of scouts " as well as a " prince of j^ood fellows."

When it was .innounced e.irly last summer that Col. Madeii-Pow<-ll. who in .\pril, 1H97. had
Ix.-en ^'iven cnmm.md of tlie 5th Dragoon (iuards, was to be sent out to Rhodesia to or^^anize a
local levy, everyone was satisfied that the work would be admirably done. .And so it was. but
it was socin nhscureil by a much niori' brilliant achi(V<'ment. namely, lh<' defence of Mafekiiitf,
which will live for many a lon;^ day in the annals of the ISritish .Army. it is not too niucii to
say til, It in the hands of a less ri'sourceful man, however brave, Mafekin;^ woulil hardly have
held out for a month, Put. as we all know, the little ijarrison was stiniulati'il by the indefatigable
" H.-P." to exertions of the most extraordinary description. Time after time it sallied forth
and hurled back the enemy with ijreat loss. lime .ifter time, under his cheery supervision, it
worked out little surprises which caused Cronje to inili;j;n;uitly exclaim " They are not men, those
Mafekin^ folk they are devils I " On the details of the sieije we need not expatiate here. It
is sufficient to s;iy that it brought into stron;,' relief a type of which neither our nor any other
Army possc'sses many samples. Whatever his future career may brinij forth, Baden-Powell need
hope for no fairer distinction than that of being known as " B.-P. of Mafeking."

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SIR F. FORESTIER-VVALKER.

SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM EDWARD FORESTIER FORESTIER WALKER.
K.C.B.. C.M.c;., belongs to that useful type o.licncral oflior who, while falling short
of the highest distinction, has done adiiiirahle work and may be expected to keep on
doir.g it in every responsible post to which he may happen to Ix- calieil. Morn ..early
55 yeirs ago, the eldest son of the !:Ue Cx'iieral .Sir lulw.ird \\. Fnnsti.r- Walker his mother
was the daughter of the Earl of Seafii Id the ;>resent Ci.mm.mder of the Line of Communications
in .'■"outh .Africa entered the .Scots Gu irds in iSor, ."id shortly ,ifi<rw,ir(is served a short term on
the Personal Staff in Mauritius. From 1S69 to 1873 he was adjutant of his regiment, .uid from
1873 to 1S79 was on the Staff at the C.iix- of Cood Hope, first as Assistant Milit.iry .Seeretary
and sul)se(]uentlv on spec! I duty. During diis jieriod he sirved in the F\|K(lition to ( '.ri(|u.dand
West in 1875. aiid in the South .African \V.ir of I.S78-9. lie w.is thnnigli Ix.'h lh<- Kaffir am!
Zulu campaigns, was present at the battle of Inyezane and the occupation of Eshowe, and was
rewarded with two mentions in Des|)atches ;uul a C.U.

In 1884 5 Col. l"oiestier-Walker w.is again sent to South Africa .is Assisi.mt .Adjutant and
Qu.irter-Master-(ieneral to thi" Hei huui.iland Fxpedition under Sir Charles W.irreii. l-"or his
services in this admirably org.mized and faultlessly conducted little campaign he was Muiiourably
Mentioned and made a C..M.(i.

In 1889 90 ("leneral Forestiei W'.ilker commanded a brigade at Aldershot, and al th« clos**
of the latter year was appointed .Major-Cieneral in Cominaiul of the l-'orce in Fgyi)t, a jiost
whic!) he held for nearly tlv full five ye.irs. In No\cmixT, 1895, he became Lieutenant General
Comn^uuling tlu' W'esicrn District, iie.id<|iiaruTs D'vonjiort. Shortly before the outbreak of
the .Secoiul lioer War it w.is derided to ret.ill .Sir William itiill<r from the comm.ind of thefiirces
at the (Jape, and the ap|)oinlinent was offered at very shor. notice to .Sir b". I'oresiier Walker,
who accepted it and slarti d for .South .AlVi'.i forthwith. On the formation of the |-'ield i'orce he
was appointed to the ch.irge of ilu' Line of ((inununictions, :>.!> e.\i<edingly res|)<)nsible ,ind
important diit\- which he is |)erfoi niihu; wiili his usu il tlioiuu-liiiess and care. Needless to siiy
his practical e.xperience of South .Afric.m warlar'- mikes him an invaluable man in sui ti a |K)sition
at such a juncture; and, speaking gent lalK , it may be taken as .t military axiom that the less
the public hear of ;i generiil's work in this particular appointment the nwre ably and ffirjenily is
the work Imm'ii': tlone.

LORD WOLSELEY.

IT would be hopeless to attempt in anything less than a respectably-sized book a fair
presentment of th'. career of the Conimander-iii-C"iiief ot tin. Iiiiii:;'i Army. One may go
further, and say that probalily not for a goo.l many years to comf will any, even a
voluminous, account be |)ublished of what Lord W'oiseley has done and his manner of
doin^ it. For this rein,iri<able man has few impartial contemporary critics. One of his ()rominent
characteristics has been the faculty of inspiriiiff either undiscriminatinjr admiration or blind
animosity. In the clearer judj^^mcnit of postt;rity Lord W'olseley v/ill be, on the whole, better, as
well as more accurately, appreciated. It may i)e u,-L;ed against him that his public attitude
lacked that frank and sinceri; j^eneiosi.y of mind and purjxise whinh has made heroes of smaller
men : iliat, as a leader, he never exercised that j^alva.iic influence over his followers wliich so
stron^K characterized the *' Little Corporal " and " Corporal John." On the other hand, in the
rarefieii atmos|)here of history as it will be written lift/ years hence, W'ulseley should be a
■' ' Ciallant man, earnest soldier, level Headed, cautious comi

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commanding tigure. (iallant man, earnest soldier, level Headed, cautious commantl<;r, strong,
iiulustrious adminisir.ilor, he will, by virtue of sheer disti'iction, rank with Wellington and
\'on .Moltkc as line of the greatest milita'-v protlucts of the Niiujteenth Century.

Lord Woisrlry's laner has been so often sketche-d, and the details are so readily accessible
in a score of bonks of conunon ref(trence, thai only the briefest outline of it ln're is necessary or
ilcsirable. Horn in 1833, the son of Major G, T. W'olseley, o" the 25tli I'oot, young (jarnet
entereil thi; Army in 1852, and, a few months later, was lying on his back in front of a Uurmese
stockade, severely w<(imded, but still gallantly urging his men to the attack. Then came the
Crimea, in which \\'ols(!ley, now a Staff-Officer, was twice woundetl, ami repeatedly distinguished
himself. .After that the Indian Mutiny, in which five separ'.te mentions in despatches were
obtained, and. by the Ix-st accounts, the X'ictoria Cross nobly earned, though not, unfortunately,
secured. In 1 860-1 W'olseley was again at work in tht; China War, and, in 1870, he commanded
th(; hlooillcss but important Red River L.\|)edition. In 1873-4 he marche-d to Coomassie at the
he.id ol a force whose losses were minimiseil by his forethought and good leadership. In 1S79-80
he w,is (iovernor and High-Commissioner in Natal, and commanded the troo})S during the closing
operations of the Zulu Campaign. In 1882 he was in chief command of the Lgyptian
I%xpedition, and gave the whole civilized worki an examjile of consumm.ite generalship in the
operations leading up to the battle of 'I'el-el-Kebir. In 1884- 5 he was Commaiuler-in-Chief of
the operations on the Nile ami at Suakin. He failed to rt-ach (.iorilon in time, but there are not
a few -the writer incluileil who regard this failure as one of the most splenilid military efforts
ever reconkxl. Only resorted to it the last moment- when it was already too late — Wolseley did
all that hiim.an man could do, and, for faultless prevision and unwearying persistence, the Nile
FCxpedition of 1884 5 ought to be classed among the finest operations of war in the annals of this
or any other country.

As .1 high .St.ift-Offu cr in pi'ace time Lord Wolseley's e.vperience has been uni(|ue. He
has Ix'en nearly everything that it is |>ossible for a soldier to be. and in eviTy capacity the strong
imelli'ctu.ility and purposeful tenaciousness of the man have constantly exhibited themselves.
Both as .Adjutant- and Ouarterm.ister-CieiKTal he was handicappeil in h.u'ing to beat down
a «.ill ol prejudice and numberless obstacles in various shapes ol unreasoning conser\atism.
Hit by hit hf had his way, and tliough, for a time, a|)pareiitly "shelveil" by an appointment to
the comm.uid of the forces in Irelaiul, he was rewartleil in 1895 by sudileuly iiiuling himself
Comni.nider in-Chief, in circumstaiues too fresh in the public memory to require recajiitulation
here.

.As Coinm.mder-in-Chii'f Lord W'olse' y has devoted liimself to one great object — the
organization of the Army on ,1 footing of \' iia^ niay be lerined lighting efficiency. Already iiniler
his .uispiics the .\niiy has been largely iiu re.ised, ami already the soumlness of the nvasures h(!
has taken to improve its lighting e.ipacit) ha\e Ikcii demonstrated in the most |)ractical fashion
possibli'. The ilespatch of the Arm)' Corps to .South Africa was an object lesson to ihi' world at
large of the ability of the Admiralty to send a force ov;r the seas, which it woukl tax the
resources ol any other nation but Kngland to move over any but a land frontier. The bravery
displ.iyed at Talana Hill. lUamlsla.igte, Modder River, ami elsewhere, was proof that the Briti.sh
Army still knows how to light. Hut tht! successhil mobilization of the I'ielil I'orce was due to the
Conuuander-in-Chief and to e\ery thinking student of military affairs it will seem as if the
assignment of too much credit on this account would be impossible.

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LORD METHUEN.

PAUL SAXFORD, LORD MKTHUKN, K.CA.O., CIJ., C.M.C... I,ifut.-nam-
(k'ikt;i1 CommaiKiini: (he I'irst Divisicii ol" the Sniith Alrican I'icld Force, is ilistiiictly
in the front rank ol contemporary military commanders. A lew months a),'o he was
little more than a C.eneral Officer of known tact anil ability, with an excellent war
recorii as a Colonel and in junior ranks. Now he has the intiniteh' higher distinction ol
havinjv led a considerable force in the field, and, further, of havini; added in no inconsiderable
dejjree to the fi^^htinjf prestijje of the British .Army. The hard-won successes of Belmont,
and Enslin, anil Modder River, and even the reiHilse at Ma^a-rsfontein, ^ave Methuen brevet
rank as a battle leader, which is a very different matter from a [losition ixa a skilful field-day
tactician or a paper strategist. Moreover, if at times he has indul^red in a tendency to
e.Kaj^ljerated lanj^uay^e. Methuen's Desjiatches have had a decidedly Fnijlish ar.d soldierly rinj;
about them, especially when the tide of success seemed for a moment to have turned.

The e.xplanation of the latter fact, at any rate, is simple. Lord Methuen is a Peer, and
a Guardsman, and a distinijuished offictr to Uiot. But he is also a vjennine (lesh-and-
blood Briton, in whom sportinij and .ithlelic tastes ,ire stron^dy develo|K-d. "You wouldn't
talk to me like that if 1 was on the jKivement." said a cabby once to youn^' Methuen, who
was [wintint; his talk at him in rathir a vigorous fashion. "Wouldn't I.'" was the reply,
"come down and see!" result, a sadder and a sorer cabby, firmly and not at all gently con-
vinced that the younjr swell could not onK talk but do. Keepini,' himself always in hard
condition by physical exercise, Lord .Methuen now U'ars his fifty-four years as if they num-
beretl at least ten fewer, aiul for \ii.,four of manhood it would jirobably l)e difiicult to finil his
equal in the hivjh Army rank wliich he has attained in thirty-five years of e.xcelleni and some-
times onerous service.

Lord Methuen entered the Scots I'usilier Guards in 1.S64, and fn>m 1X6S to 1871 was
Regimental Adjutant. In 1X73-4 he acconipanii'd the Ashanti I'-xpedition under .Sir Garnet
W'olseley on special service, and was present at the battle of Amoaful. From 1878 to l88l
he was Military Attache to the British lunba.ssy at Berlin, a position which it is simply
impossible for any but a first-class soldier to occupy. In 18S2 he went to Fl)j;ypt us Com-
mandant at the Headquarters of the ICxpeditionary F'orce. and was nresent at the action of
Mahuta and the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, receivin;f a mention in Despatcnes. in iH(S4-5 M»'thuen
was appointed to the command of the ist Moiuited Ritles in .Sir Charles Warren's Bechuanaland
Kxpedition, and accjuittcd him.self admiral)!)-. Although the expedition, thanks to Sir Charles
Warren's perfect arrangements, was a bloodless one, Methuen's Horse achieved a distinct
reputation which will last long in the military history of .South Africa, For his services in
the FIgyptian War Lord Methuen received the C.B,, and for his work in bechuanaland the
C.M.G.

From 1892 to 1897 Lord .Methuen held command of the Home District which, of course.
includes the Metropolitan Volunteers. It would be difficult to oxer-estimate the tact and capacity
which he e.xhibited in this important appointment. It is nut too much to s;iy. however, that
a very great deal of the fighting efficiency possessed to-day by the citizen soldiers of L.ondon
is due to the (;fforts of Lord Methuen, who lost no opportunity oi bringing the Volunteers
into association with the Guards, and of shewing them that jiractical side of soldiering which
is so utterly different from the mere parade aspect -important as that is in its own way.

SIR EVELYN WOOD.

NEXT to the bflovcd " Bobs," probably the most popular officer in the British Army is
the present Adjutant-General, and the fact that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred
he is alluded to simply as " Evelyn Wood " is in itself no bad proof that his personality
has (rained a real jjrip upon the affections of all and sundry. VVe ouj^ht to call liini
Sir Henry VV(mk1, and, anyway, we ought never to omit the " Sir." But there is one kind of
familiarity that never breeds contemjit. Everyone knows that the A.-G. is a great and gallant
soldier, everyone respects him as a s;igacious, level-headed administrator, everyone admires him
as a sound and true-hearted man. But it is really too much to e.\pect us at this time of day to
call him anything else but pl.iin Evelyn Wood, and even when he is rai.sed to the Peerage, as he
certainly will be some diiy, a good many of us will stick to the old name.

It is a very engaging jiersonality, that of this fine leader, e.xcellent tactician, and none the
less exfM-'rt " office official," who holds what, next to the Chiefship, is the most solidly intluential
position the British Army contains. Always a rare fighter, always alert, prompt, and resourceful,
the principal charm of Evelyn Wood is the solid fact that he is something more than a born
commander and organizer, and that is a human man. He has not the grim strength of Buller, he
has not all the intellectual force of Wolseley, but he can see where these two are blind or
indifferent, and he knows, or rather it comes to him by instinct, that the real chain which binds aC
any rate our Army together is the chain not of discipline, not even of sentiment, but of humanity,
and that he is greatest soldier who is man first and soldier afterwards. In specific cases, specific
virtues may be all-sufficient. But to be able to make the most of the British Army its leaders
njust Ix?, as the old Latin phrase so happily puts it, toti, tereles, atque rotttndi. Of such is
" Bobs"; of such is ICvelyn Wo<xl.

Born in February, 1838, young W(M)d, as all the world knows, spent the first three years of
his career in the Royal Navy. He served with the Naval Brigade in the Crimea — of which he
has published some delightful reminiscences —and, after l»;ing present at the battle of Inkerman
and the bombiirdment of Sevastopol, was severely wounded at the assiuilt on the Redan.
Youngster as he was he was twice mentioned in Despatches, and by the time he was transferred
as ,1 cornet to the 13th Eight Dragoons, in 1855, was (|uite an experienced fighting man. In 1857
he left the 13th to join the 17th Eight Dragoons, now the 17th Lancers, and in the following year
did splendid work as a leader of Irregular Horse in the Indian Mutiny, winning the V.C. for
gallantry displayed in the Sironj jungles, and two more mentions in Despatches for conspicuous
gcxnl service. His next campaign was in Ashanti, in 1874-5, '" which he raised and commanded
" WckkI's Regiment," and was present in a leading capacity in two important engagements.

In 1 878-9-8 1 Evelyn Wood was called to yet more important work, both military and
political, in .South Africa. Right through the Kaffir, Zulu, and Transvaal campaigns he served,
always active and continually, wherever an opoortunity presented itself, dealing hard blows.
Somt' idea of the work ih.n lic did in this period may be gathered from the fact that ft»r this war
aloni; he was mentioned no fewer \\\a\\ fourteen times in Despatches. This is not the place to
iliscuss the Transv.'al campaign of 1881, but it is sufficient to say that, at the time when
Mr. (iladstone decided to "give in," Wood un'iuestionably had the Boers at his mercy, and, if
things had lx:en left in his haiuls at that critical juncture, there would assuredly have been no
.Second Boer W^ir.

In 1882 Sir Evelyn Wood commanded a brigade in the Egyptian Expedition, and in the
following year was apjx)inted .Sinlar of the bigyinian .Army. Under his wise supervision the
foundation was laid of the fine force which Kitchener afterwards consolidated and led to Khartoum.
In 1884-5 W<kkI was in command of the Base anil Lines of Communication in connection with
the Nile Exfxidition. From 1886 to 1888 he was Major-General Commanding the Eastern
District, and on January ist, 1889, he Ijecame Lieutenant-(ieneral Commanding at Alder.shot.

At Aldershot Evelyn Wood was in his element. .An enthusiastic tactician, he practically
revolutionized the system of training at our gre.itest military centre, and superaddi.J 'o the field-
days a system of " palavers" of the highest interest and educational value to the leading office rs
concerned. His ubiquity and energy were proverbial, but, though he worked the division hard,
it thoroughly liked and respected its chief, and the whole .Army was sorry when he left Aldershot
in 1893 to become Quartermaster-General to the Forces. The latter appointment he held until
1897, when he was made Adjutant-General, a post which he still holds with that mixture of
transcendent good sense and sure self-reliance which made I{velyn Wood a strong pillar as well
as a fine ornament of the British Empire.

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SIR WILLIAM GATACRE.

Tin: skill of rdininy Atki .s in hiitini,' otTthr iharactcristics of a leaik-r in a nickname is
provcriii.il, hut never. Miiviv. was this skill mort; happily txemplitioil than in the sobriqutt
which has heiome attacheil to th: suhiecl of this sketih. " Cciifral nack:icher " Sir
William became to the Itritish Division in the So\ulan, ami " Ciciieral Hackacher " he
uniiucstion.ibly is, ami alw.ivs will he. so Ion;.,' as he remains in harness. There never was a man
who coinhined more rt'stle'ss personal .ictivity with a more consumin;,' anxiety to keep others
•at it." Here, there, ami everywhere, thinking,' nothing; of a twenty-mile ride In-fore brcaklasi,
iiri,nni,', interro!.iatin,i;, <'verl.istini,'ly alert ami locomotive, Gatacre is a type of ap|wri^ntly
inexhaiisiihle eneri;y, with .i humlr'eil excellent iiualities and <me failing,' an inability to iinder-
staml th.it in hum.in nature there ,ir<' occision.il limit.itions, causing' the Ix-st of soldiers at limes
to need ,1 little rest, if only to di^sip,lte th.it feelin;,' of beini,' pushed and worriixl which, when
once it sets in, is utterly d<-structive of the hi;,'hest purpose and achievement.

Yet "General Hackacher " is uiupiestionahly jiopuLir with thos<! he commands, for two very
cojjrent reasons. In the first pl.ice he thorou,i,'hly Inlieves in the Uritish soldier, anil his capiicity
to ),fo anywhere and do anythim,'. whatev<;r the physical obstacles may In-. Secondly, he never
asks his miMi to do anything,' wiiidi he is not |irc|)ared to do himself, and re|)eatedly he has
performed feats of endurance and ,uts of brilli.mt ^'allantry which have demonstrated to the full
his title to say that "such id suth .1 tiling, thou;,'!! it seems impossible, can Ix- tloiie, and if you
want sliowin:,' 1 will show you m.self." The Itritisli soldier iloes not, as a rule, want much
showin:.,M'n a case of that sort, and tile knowleil',;e that his (iener.tl believed in him, and trusted
him to win, wh.itever the cost, li.is ciused him. ,is we ,ill know, to win many an apparently
ho|K!less fit;ht.

Sir William (iatacr<; is just fifty-six \ears of a^e, and his regimental service was spent with
the old 77tli, now the 3nd Hatl.ilion. Middlesex Regiment. He passed throiijjh the Staff CoUejje,
and in 1.S75 was appointed to tiu; St. iff on wiiich he h.is reinaim-d .ilmost continuously till the
present time. In iSSS he served with tin: ll.i/.ir.i Mxpeilition, in 1.SS9 yo in Kiirma, ami in 1895
with the ('hitr.il I^xpedition, in which he Mre.iily distiiij^uished himself in ^ettin^ his Brijjad*" over
the I.owarai Pass, and s.ivin;^ life at thi; I'anjkor.i River, .\fter serviii;,' as a Urijjadier in
liombay, and at Aldershot, he was ;,Mven conun.ind, first of a Hrij^iule ami then of the British
Division, in the final advance on Khartoum, emer^iiii; with a K.C.I5. and pronnnion to Major-
( lencra! for distin;4uished service. ( )n the formation of the l'"ii'ld I'Orce for South Africa
.Sir William Gatacre w.i-. ,ip|)ointed to the command of the 3rd Divisicm, and in NovemlxT landed
at I-last London, concentr.itin^r his force at Oueenstnwn. .Ailvancinj.^ to Putter's Knuil and
Mokeno, he attiniiited iins'iccessfulK to surprise .Stormberij by a nijfht attack. But he may be
relied upon to more than compensiite this check in future operations, for he is one of the fighting
sort of Cienerals whi> do not take a reverse " lyin^ down," and whose trcKips, I)ein).( always in the
hardest of hard conditions, can recuperate much more (piickly than a force whicn is continually
resting, and is only in fighting trim when actually on the war-path.

SIR GEORGE WHITE.

LIKK Lord VVolscU-y and Lord RolM.rts, and many another ^jallant and distinguished
soldier, Sir lieorj^e White is an Irishman, and it was in a fine old Irish rej^iment, the
a7th I'"oot, now the ist Royal Inniskillin^f I'usiliers, that, at the a;re of eighteen, he
embarked upon his military career. After serving in the Mutiny operations, young
White was transferred in 1863 to the 921UI Highlanders, and went up with them as a Major to
Afghanisian in 1879. He was prc^scnt in the operations around Kabul and Sherpur, and also
took (>art in Kolj«rts's famous march to Kandahar. At the action of Charasiah on October 6th,
1879, and the bjittle of Kandahar and elsewhere, Major White behaved with such cool gallantry
that he was rewarded not only with the Victoria Cross, but also with a Brevet- Lieutenant-Colonelcy
andlheC.H.

A very fme battle-picture might Ik; painted of White's performance at the action of
Charasiah. The enemy were strongly |)osted in an im|)ortant position, from which all efforts to
dislodge them had failed. Clearly it was, like Dargai, a little matter for the Gordons to attend
to, and two compimies untler Major White accordingly advanced to the attack. But the "going'
was awful, and, after climbing from letlge to ledge, the men were nearly " giving out " from sheer
fatigue. At this juncture, by way of heartening his little force, White calmly took a rifle from
one of his men. ndvanted alone, and " fiotted ' the Afghan leader. Of course no Gordons could
fail to take a lead of this sort, and the two companies rushed in, the enemy fled, and the position
was won. At the battle of Kandahar, during an exciting charge. White rode deliberately up to
two guns which were doing a heaj) of damage and, dashing suddenly forward, secured one of them,
and thus crowned a brilliant but risky movement with complete .success.

After serving awhile in command of a biittalion of the Gordon.s, White was sent in 1884 to
F-'gypt on the Staff of the Nile K.\|H:dition. In 1885 he was appointed a Brigadier in the
Burmes«! Ii!x|H;dition, ami, after the capture of Mandalay, was placed in charge of the Upper
Burma Field I'"orce. During the years 1885 9 he- "pacified" Burma with such administrative
ability and thoroughness that he was made a K.C.B. and given the command of an important
district in Bengal.

In 1893 this rather junior Major-General, who barely a dozen years before had lieen only a
Regimentid Major, was ap|>ointed to the Commantler-in-("hiefship in India in succession to Lord
Rol)erts. Of course there was an outcry, but the thing was done, and it soon became understood
that it had been very well done, in the interests of the great Indian Army. The latter was soon
in the throes of a complete re-organiz.ition into the ilelails of which Sir George White entered
with extraordinary zeal, tact, and level-headed common-sense The Chitral Relief Expedition
which was carried out during his tenure oC the Chiefship was a finely stage-managed piece of work,
but the Frontier operations of 1897-8 were, perhaps, rather lx;yond the .scope; of Sir George
White's capacity and experience, and best left to a successor to whom the Border hiis been for
many years past as an open book.

In 1898 Sir George White came home and for nine months was Quartermaster-General to
the Forces, relinquishing the post on selection as Governor of Gibraltar. Before he could take
up the latter app4:>mtment the exigencies of the situation in South Africa necessitated his being
sent out to command the triM>ps in Natal. Proceeding promptly to Ladysmith he did all that was
possible in the awkward strategical situation to which political considerations had condemned
him, and by ordering I'Vench's action at Elandslaagte, and himself engaging the Boers at
Rietfontein, materially assisted the withdrawal of the endangered outfx>st at Dundee. On Oct. 30
he suflTcrred a serious reverse by the capture of a detached force at Nicholson's Nek, and three
days later his communications were cut, and the siege of Ladysmith began. The chivalrous
manner in which Sir George White took upon himself the entire blame of the Nicholson's Nek
disaster, and the vigorous fashion in which he held Ladysmith for so many weeks under peculiarly
trying conditions, have greatly impressed not only the home public but also competent Continental
critics.

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IMKI.Ii-MaKMIAI. roMMANI'INillN-l'HlKK TlIK l''()KCKS IN Sunil AhKHA.

LORD ROHKRTS.

B(ii;s (.,kI M,.s l,im! • Tlut f.unili.ir. .ilmnst vrriun, ..r r,,uiil.m..n rrprrvnts far
,„,„■,. .l..,„lv ,m.l .urunt.-lv th.u. wnul.l i-.i^.s d o,l.l-.lr..«n tvi..' t .- I-. !,„« >^.ll.
vshi.h l.oi.l Knl..if« .>| K,iiKl..lur iHrr«,.r.l.Ml l.y a vrry l..r«.; s.vi...n -.1 his ..mntrs ..,.•„,
Tlurr luvv l..rn o-iniur.aiv.lv f,« j;rr,,t l.a.l.Ts wl,.. uvr nm ..l.lr t-. ii.s|..r.-
throu .hum ,.;i rank, n,., „nlv ut ,h. ir anni-s. I.ii. -f ,h.; ...uinns .o «huh ihyy hav.- '« ""^'-'Ij ••

siMMkin^r thi, .1,,,.,,,.,' li„|,. rol-l.uv.l :,,nllr,n.m . an l-aMlv Ik- . all.-.l nnpr.ss.vf ; nraturu.lly he-
has nolhin- vihrant nor m..vins' al-ut him; ,.rol.sM<.nalK hr has nv.,.. than nn..' lai.l in.nsH
,„„,, tudmr^.sot in.hil^.mv in rash ami rath.T "I.Al.ss laaus vvhj. ii nnj.t hay nn-lvr.!
a l.'ss lutkv man in s.rimis tlisast.-r, Hut if a man U- want-.! tn l.a.l m- n. vUut.v, r the
.liMuuliirs an,! nhstarlrs. I,, nuk.- a mixr.i amn I. . 1 its.-lf lu U- a sinj.' nuhvuiual lump of
vviliinMuss to follow its o.mman.l.r an\«li.r-. an.l .lo anythin- lur hun if. m a w..r,l. you want
a tnil^ Popular -nat .;rn.ral. tluT.' is o,iK our man in ihr worM for tb- Hritish s..1(Ii.t, ami that

IS "liui,-., (in.l Mr-,^ him!"

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lorn m iS-,:. tlir v.n ol Ov laf ('..nnal Sir Ahraham KoIktIs. (l.C.H., yoiin^j
l-'rcilcrick SIfijrh Kolicris was .■.hu.in.l al h'.ton and .1,1. rrd th.' i>lil ltin-,.l Artilliry in iS.Sj.
Wh.M ihr Indian Mutiny l.rokc .'Ut hr was apiH.mt.'d to tin- Onarl.r Master ( ..nrral's
DcpartiiKiil, and s.m.h U'camc proinimiU as oiif> of thf moslailivr and .gallant vomij^ otli.<.rs
iMi^a-rd ill the lampai.^'n. At tin; sir;^'f and laptiiri- o| h.lhi. thr K.lirl ol Liukn-.w, tlu;
operations al ( awnpore. and the operations eiidini; with the lapture ot l.ui know, the yoiiiiK
staff oflirer repeat<dlv distinguished himself wiiinin.; the N'iitoria I'ross twia- ov.t at
KluhLi'^ani on laniiai'v Jnd, 1S5S. In iS.i? he was pres.nt at tin- North West l-roiitier
Mxpedkion whiih terminated in the (a|)tuie o| I'mLex lah. ami in i.S')S he did I'Mcllent work
,i.s Assistant ( >iiarterMaster-tieneral in the Ahyssinian ivNindition. lie servi-d in the saiiu;
capacitv in the I.ooshai l-lxpedition of 1S71-2 and in 1S75 Iweame tJiiarterMaster a ..neral of
tht- liuii.m Army. At the outset of the At'i^han War of i87S.y..So Major-deneral Kolnrts was
-iven oimmaiui first of the Kuram \alley Meld l'"orcf, n«-xt . the K.ilnil 1-ield |-'or»:c. and
finallv of tile wholi force that marched from Kalnil to tin- relief of Kandahar. The story of

Rolirrts's man h .md o|' th
need to .ji\<' it

resultin.,; L.ittle is writ so l.ir^e in our military ann.iU that there is no
iieeo to '^'wf it more than p.issim; allusion here. In iSHi Sir l-'rederiik RoIhtIs Ucame
('ommaiider-in-tJllief in Madras, and in iS.S^ he .ucreedeil .Sir I )on.dd .Stew.irt as ( dmm.uider-
in-l'hief in ln<li.i. In M.iy, iSo;. Lord RoJierN was m.ule a lield Marshal, .md thi- following,'
Uctolier w.i. .i])]iointid to the comm.md o| the I'dnes in Irel.md.

.Sui h in the l),iii-,i outline whiih in su( h .1 c.ise is all that is [xissihle is the lan-er ol this
;,'reat fi,:;lniii;..^ soldier i)re\iously to his takiiv^ up. in liirMnstances which are fresh in the piil)iic
recdllection, the Comm.md-in-i liief of tl, ■ lories in South Afrii.i. There ,ire few more
touihiii;; pa;;es in our inililarv history than that 011 which is now written the story of l.oril
Roliertss acceptaiKe, at the ai,'e o| ')7, ol this last i^n .it ,in<l onerous re'.|)onsiliility, whi'e yet
stricken with i^riif at the los-, of his only son in the hattle on the hanks of the Tu^ela, on
December 15, i.S<>5. But we must not let either this iiispirin..^ incident, or the hrilliani tale of
l,ord Kol rts's triumphs in the lield, obscure our\iew of another aspect of his life-work. As
Commani I . --in-Chief in Indi.i Lord Robetts did much, the full effect of which will not Ik;
appreciate A for some years to ( ome, but which, noiip the less, will hav(? an enduring' effect iipAn
our milit.iry el'fuiency and Imperi.il stability. lb- stien._rtlirned the Indi.m I'rontier against
the risk of iin.isinn; he infused into the li^htin;.,' n.iti\i- i.Kes an .idded lo\,iltyand respect for
the L;riMtness ol the LnL,'lish race; and, by the est.iblishmeiit of a system of recreation rooms
altogether in .id\ance of anything hitherto existing;, he conferred on the Ilritish soldier ;i iM'iiefit
the value of whidi it is diffuult to properly estimate. A thoughtful, tactful, eiier;4etic
.idminisiralor. Lord R<jberts has;ilways used his po|)ul.irit) to the advantage not of himself but
f)f those whom he has for the time bein.^- commimdird. .\ distinfjuishin;,' characteristic of his
career is summed up by Kipling in the words " l'. does not advertise," and of really captivating;
modi'sty, coupled with a ijloriously stirrin^r record of splendid ,ind v.irie;,'ated .ichievemeiit, his
published menviirs furnish, pcrh.ips, thi- finest example that couM possibly \n: (pioted.

GENERAL HECTOR MACDONALD.

To iciinm. 111(1 ,1 lliyrhlimd Hri>,',ulir mi activi! siTvict; U an amlMtion ti> ri'alisr which
a Kiiyal I'riiuc mi^'ht well inakr .uKstaiitial sacrilicfs. It is an iiu idiiitai innol' of
ri";;.'Miiii^' vitality in tlu' nuich-alniMd Itiiiisji Aiinv that this honiMiiahJc' distimtion
shciiilil have liccn adiirvrd \>y tl"' scjii of a sinail Siuiiish lafnur, \vh<i (!iUcri:d the
as a |iriv,itc, an<l has risen hy shiir nurit to thr rank nl (iinir.d Dl'ticir, it is an
• •(|ii,i!ly |M>\vrrliil triliiitr to the |mts( malitv i>( the man who has acioniplishid tiiis
rxtraonlinary Icat thai, while to all .tnd siinihy he is uninistiikaiily Major ( icmral MacDonaid,
(l.C.h., I >.S.( )., ,111(1 .\. !).(!, to the niie( n, he is to a l.irj,'(! se(tion ol till' llritish .\riny, and
tlic Uritish pulilic .IS well, simply "Old .Mac."

Army
almost

0| (ciurse, he is not old, except in an aftection.it(! sense and in tlyhtiii'^ e.xperiiince.
He w.is JHirn in 1S5J, and entered the ranks of the ( lordon I li^^hlamiirs .it tlie a;^c of 18,
Mis (h.iiKc (lid not 1 ome until the .\f,4han War of i.S7()-,Sii, in whiih he displa\<(l such
conspicuous v;.ill.inlry that he was proiiidied to ,1 .Second Lieutenancy, after l)eiu;,f present ni
half a do/en import. iiit .ictions ,ind .icconip.uu in,; KolHris's ;,;re,ii m.irch from K.ihiil to
K.md.ih.ir. In 1.S.S1 he went thnmuh the I'ninsv.i.il campaign, and foiiLdit with the (iordutis
at M..juh.i Hill.

In 1.S85 M.icDon.ild .iccepted employment with the I'^^fyptian (Constabulary, with which
he rem. lined until i.S.S.S. in( identally sh.irini,' in the Nile l^xjiedition of 1S.S5 as (iarrisoti-
Adjiit.uit .It .\ssiout. in i.S.S.S he w.is tr.uisferred to the i'l;,'vpii,in .\rmy, and took a distiii^^iiishc'd
iKirt in the .Solid. m i\x|)edition of i.S.S,S-()i, ser\iiv,,r at t i.iiu.ii/ah, i'oski, and tlie c.ipturc of
I'ok.ir, .111(1 liein^' rew.irded for his sersices with the i)..S,( ).

in i.SfjO this .istonishin^' I li(.jhlander, who sixteen ye.irs hel'ore hail been a .Serj^eant
only, was appointed to the; command of <i liri'.4ade of l'li,'yptian inf.intry in the l''xi)edition
to I)on>,'ol.i. In the Nile ()|)erations of tin; followinj,' yc.ir, "OKI," or. as he is alternatively
c.iilud, ■ i'i^htiii;,' .Mac," was a>.;ain to the fore, anil in the final advance on the Mahdist
stron^;hol(l, .111(1 .It the Hatlle of Omdiirman, his services wen; so spleiuliil, and withal are
still so fresh in the public memory, th.it it is only necessary here to brin^ them iincler
passing; allusion.

After the Hattle of Omilurman. MacDonaid, now a C.H, and ;in .A.D.C to the Oueen,
camt; home, .uid w.is teti-d ro\. illy by his " brither Scots. ' if .inytiiinj; could h.ive compensated
such a truly modest man for the ordeal of publicity to which he was thus subjected, it must
have beiMi the proud salisfactioi; of haviii).; earned the affectionate esteem of fellow-coinitrymen,
who, taken all round, are probably the writer is not a Scotsman himself, so speaks imiiarlially —
the l)est jud^fes of ).;ood soldierinjj in the world.

M.icDonald's cool and skilful handling of his .Soudanese Urii^ade at the Uattle of
Onulurm.iii marked him out for further immi^diate advancement, and, acconlin^dy, he was
invited to leave the Ivj/yjitian .Army and |>roceed to India as IJris,radicr-Cieneral Commanding
the Sirhind Division, with heailiiuarters at Uinballa. On the lamented death of General
Wauchope at the iJattle of Ma^jersfonteiii, MacDonaid was appointed his successor, and may
be reckoned iij)on to again distinguish himself in any circumstances in which personal
courage, stern resolution, calmness of demeanour, and promptitude of action in tight places,
happily welded with a faculty of inspiring confidence in genuine fighting men like his gallant
self, are bound to sjk-II success.

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Hk.mi Ci. sir IRANCIS RKilNAII) WINCA ll',,

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SIR FRANCIS WINGATE.

IT is Jitruult t(^ realise, when ;ine looks at the l.'lters which conic after tins Officer s nani«
ill the Arinv I.ist, when oiu' recalls his gre.it aiul brilliant services, when one comsuIjts
the position which he occupies, that he was only l)orn in iS6i, ami (jnly entered the
army a t'.unner sulialtern in July, iSSo, It is not an uncoiniiion <\penenc<' for a man
—and a ijood man, too to find himself after nineteen years' service still a rej^nneiital c.iptam.
or, at most, a iiinior major. The o|ipoi-tiinilies aft'oid.'d by the l-;,i;yi,tian Atiny, wh'ch young
Win^^ate j )ineil in 1SS2, and with which he has he.'n .ilinost coniinuoesly employed ever snicc.
have'^been mainly instrumental in making him. at the age of 3S, .1 bievet (olonel, a K.L.M.d,.
a C.B., a l».S,0„an .\.I).C. to the tjiieen, and, in succession to Lord Kitchener, (lovernor-
General of the Soudan. Hut it goes without s,iying that no mere opportunities could h.ive
produced such a result if Sir l-'raiicis Wing.ite had not been one of the best and br.iiiiiest
officers who ever ornamented the Mritish .\rmy. Incidentally it is something worthy <>f
speci.d record th.it he has won all he h.is won without excitiuL; the h-.ist en\y ct his success,
or being in anv way sjioilr by it.

.As .1 mire ri^hting-m.ui Wing.iie h,is |)ut in some excellent wnrk in four c.uni>,u'gns
and several m'nor expeditions. On the Nile in 1S84-5 he acted as a staff officer on
the lines of communication, and in the .Soudan in 18S9 91 he won the l)..S.(). at the .ictinn
of Toski. He w.is present at the capture of Fok.ir, served through the Dongola I^xpeditiim
of 1S06, and, as hiMil of the I-"gyptian Intelligence I)e|)artment, w,is, ne.M to Lord Kitchener
himself, a principal factor in the trium|)li.int advance on Kh.irioum. His military ex|)loits in
this direction were crowned bv his victory oviT the Khalifa at the <|ose of l.*<99, which
resulted in the death of .Mxlull.ihi. ,inil the final disj)ersal of the Mahdist forces.

But excellent soldier as he is. it is not only, or indeed chielly, by re.ison ot iiis
military virtues that Sir i-'rancis Wingate has risen to such early prominence. When ( i(rneral
Hunter left the F,gy[)tian .Service for a comm.ind in indi.i. W'ingate became .Adjutant-
Geiirr.il of the ICgyiiti.ui .Army, and it is uiulerstoocl th.it, in view of Lord Kitcheners
a|)|)oiinm'nt to 1m: Lord Roberts-, ri^htdlaiul m.m in .South .\fri<.i, he is to succeed the
former as .Sirdar as well as (.i(]veriior-(ii'iier.il of the .Soud.ui. |!ut prior in iS<)9. ( Dloiiel
W'ingate had m;.d(; himself ;ui enduring n.iMle .is he.ul of tll<' I{gypti,iii Intilligence
De]i,irtinent, which h<! |)r,ictically fiundid .uid dir<'cted for over ten years. No Intter trii)U!e
to his w irk in this I)e|)artm<nt could be coiueiveil than that contained i'l Mr. (i. VV.
Steevens's brilliant book "With Kitchein'r to Khartoum." .After rem.irking that Wingate
made it his business to know everything, and holding him up as a tvjie of the le.unetl
soldier, Mr. .Steevens imjcs on to s.iy th.it if Wingate h.id not chosen to U- Chief of the
Inte'ligence Department of the I'"gypti.in .Army, he iiiigh' h.ive been an ()xf'ird Professor of
Orient.il I.aiigu.iges. " lie will le.irn \o'; any l.inguai.' : you like to n.imi- in thre<' months.
.As foi that myste-ioui child of li( s, the .Arab, Colonel Wngale can coiuerse with him for hours,
and at the eiu. know not only how much truth lie has told, liut e.\a( tlv wh.it truth he
has suppressed He is the intellictual, as the Sirdar is the practical, compendium of British
dealings with the Suii.in. With lh.it hi- is, himsi'If. the most practical of men. and few re.ilise
how largely it is due to the s\stem of ii.itive intelligence he has organised that o|)er.itions in
the Sudan are now certain and unsurprised instead of vague, as they once were. Nothing
is hid from Colonel Wingate, wheth(.r in C.iiro or at the Court of .Menelik, or on the shores
of Lak(- Tchad. "

!i will be remembered that it was larg(-ly due to Colonel Wingate's exertions that the
rescue of Slatin Pasha from Omdurman was effected. Between Sir Rudolf Sl.itin, as he is
now, and Sir I'rancis Wingate the closest possible friendship exists, and it must have been
largely in collaboration with the latter that the former prinluced his well-known work " Fire
iind Sword in th(; Sudan,"

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SIR DONALD STEWART.

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TAKINT. into account the si/" of its iiopiilatioii, Scotland has probably produced a
i^rratcr lunnixT of thorouijh soldiers than any other country in the world. Of the
Scottish soldier, too, of the very best possible sort, it would be hard to find a
l)etter all-round sample than the fine fi«,rur(; portrayed here, the ifallant and vijrorous
leader, sound and c.uitious administr.itor, lon<,'-lieaded but simple anti kindly tfentleman,
FieldMarsh.d Sir D.inald Martin Stewart, ex-Coninian(l''r-in-Ciiief in India, and now Govc-rnor
of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. No fitter association of iileas could well be conceived than
this l.ist-named a|)poiiUnient. It is, indee<l, rii,dit and jjleasing that the i^reat national
institution, where our fine old soldiers pass into "winter quarters" for the last tinit; in their
honourable lives, should have as its head a man whom many of us rei^ard with affectionate
respect as the finest old soldier in the whole British army.

.Sir Don. lid st.uted his military career as an ensij^rn in the oth Henj^'al Native Infantry
in iS.ji, and had already served with distinction in two frontier e.\|)etlitions, when the liulian
Mutiny broui.;lu him |)rominently to the front as a ijallant .md able .Staff Officer. He was
[ire.;ent at both the siej^^e of Delhi and tlu; siejje and capture of Lucknow, and, besides
beinjj twice mentii>ned in d(;s[)atches, won a double ste|) of brevet [)romotion to Lieutenant-
Colonel. Menceforw.ird his service was almost continuously with the .Staff .\ painful
interruption occurreii during; his term of <ominand of tl;e .Andaman Islands, in the course of
which Lord Mayo, then \'iceroy, visited the pe'iial settlement at I'ort HIair, and was
jLssassinated by one of tht? convicts. Hut with this s.id exception his caret-r (loweil
pleas.uitly ami smootliU' throu^^h the happy valley of official advancement and popular esteem.
In 1S67-8, he commanded the Hen^fal Hri,tj,id(^ in the .Abyssinian L.\pedition, and eiijht years
later becami- a .Major-Oeneral in Hen^.il. In 1S7S the .Af;,dian war brok(! out, and
Genet. il .Stewart was 'dveii the commaiul of the Kandahar Column anil Cihazni Field l'"orce.

.Stewart's ;,;reat services in the Afljhan war are sufficiently attested by the honours
which were showered upon him at its close, Repeateilly mentioned in despatches, thanked
twice by both Houses of Parliament, he emeri,red from the War i Haronet anil a G.C.B.,
and in iSSi was given the blue ribbon of the service to which u • belont;ed, tiic Commander-
in-Chiefship of the Indian army. Miit in all the full record of his work as a stroni;' leader
and tiiu i.;eneral the-re is one act which stands out to sonu' minds in even i^reater promi-
nence than iiis capture of Khelat-i-tihil/,ai, his operations in the Gw^ijur and Khojuk Pass,
and his victories at .Ahmed Khel and L'rzoo, and that is his i^enttrous self-abnei;ation in
favour of Roberts in the matter of the Kabul to Kandahar march. Just as Outram waived
his seniority in favour of H.ivelock, so .Stewart ncit only yielded preceilence to "Bobs," but
allowed the latter to |)ick from his own force such troops <is he reijuinid ii order to render
possibk' his historical achievement.

As ComiiMiuler-in-Chie-f in India, .Sir Donald .Stewart inautjurated much which was
subsequently carried to lompletion by Lord Roberts, who succeeded him in 1S85. I'lKler
Stew.irt the new system of frontier dtlVnce was bei;iir., and a steady improvement took
plac(! in the tij^htiiiLj <'ificiency of the Presiiiency armies. A stickler for temperance,
Sir Don.ild did much to elevate the moia. standard of the British scjldier in Indi;'. and to
better his lot. As a sai^acious counsellor, too, he was a pillar of strength to the Indian
Government, to whom his extraordinary ex|)erience and shrewd common sense were invaluable.
No better combin.ilion of iht; tiLjhting soldier and the " oftice man" evi , livi'il, and when,
at the dose of his te-nure of the Chiefship. .Sir Donald became Military Member of the
Secretarv of State's Council at the Iiulia Office, e\eryone felt that the appointment was
positi\el)- gratifying in its complete appropriateness. In iSij.^ the Queen rewarded this good
and laithfiil servant, to whom she is known to be greatly attached, with the batou of a
Field-.Marshal. and i:' the foUuwing year he was apjiointed to the Governorship of
the Chelsea llosjiital.

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('mil (II I'm Si All, Sijutm Ai i,ii an I'li i.|i Imikii'.

LORD KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM.

ORX oil the J4tli June, 1850, apiiointwl to llu; Royal KiijrinciTs in January, 1871
this oxtraortiin.irv man's carwr i.iicl not ix^nn to shape itsiiil' with any particular
distinctness until' 1SS3, when, as a Captain, with a reputation lor hardheaiU'ilness

and a knowlwl^rf of Arabic, he accei)teil (■nii)loynu'nt with the I'ljiyjuian Army.

In the Nile Hxpedition of 18S4-5 he served ,is IXA.A. iuid (J.M.C.., and won a bn:vet ;
in 18.S6, as a Lieutenant-Colonel, he was niaile Governor-deneral of the Ked Sea Littoral
and Comin.nulant of Suakini ; in 188S he was severely woumled at Haniloub ; in 1888-9 he
comniaiuitd a iiri-.ide of the I-li^yptian Army in the Sdud.ui, beini; i)resent at Ciemaizah ai.-l
Toski ; and thcre.ifter, tlirouj^h tiie L;r,idu.d improvement of the ICi^yptian Army, the expedition
to I)on:4ol,i, the battle of the Atb.ira. and the fm.il pulverization of the NLilulist tyranny, we
know him either ,is the Sinl.ir, or as ■ Kitchener of Kliartinnn."

It is oniy exceptionally stronjj men whose history is an inv.iriable rellex of their char.ictcr,
but no merely strong man ever did the thini;s that Kitchener h.is done. The commonly
accepted idea of him. based lari^ely upon brilliant but misleading j,'enerali/.ition, is that he is
princi|i,illy compoundeil of inllexible determination and ori;.ini/ini4 capacity ; .uid, when someone
smart'y remarked that he would make a splenilid manaj;er of tin- .Army and Na\y Stores, the
world in '^i-neral was ple.isixl with the definition, and made up its mind for the time iK-ing to
cliii iK .idmire Lord Kitchener as .1 well-nii.;h infdlible .ulministr.itor who left as little .is possible
to chance, .uid who "cune out 011 top" l,iri.;elv beciiise he h.id m.ide up his mind to <lo s<).

\'('i this conception does poor justice to the real greatness ol ,1 diameter liki- Kitchener's.
We have m.my strong men in this world, and some of them quite its strong, and just as gofxJ
organizers in their own particular lines, as the ex-Sinlar. Mut surely some siK;cial credi* must
be gi\en for high ideals, some extr.i merit accorded for the surmounting of |M;culiar obstacles.
When Kitcheinr entered it the Lgypti.m .Army was bailiy discri'dited. Two yc.u's Liter the
Mahdist power was in the ascendant, .iiid nothing but sublime patience, coupleil with almost
su|)erhuman consciousness of his own capacities. Kiuld ha\i- upheld Kitchener in the t.isk that
lay before him. Is there no poetry in the spectacle of this m,in rising gr.idiially ,111(1 patiently
from the work of spying in disguise upon the Mahdist movements to that ol lorging the w'ea|K)n
which was tinally to convert those movements into utter disintegration, .ind restore .1 great
countrv
of th ■
not

to civilization

prosperity? The singular devotion of Lord Kitchener to the idea
ie (ionloii College at Khartoum shoulil be some ()roof, if any were wanteil, that he tl<H;s
take sim[)ly a gross, m.iterial view ofllhe work in which he happens to [>v. engaged.

.\l the saiiK' tiuK' it woukl be riiliculous to suggest that Lord Kitch<'ner has exactly what
one would call a lo\.ible character. It is jxjssible that he has found it neci'ssiiry to delilM-r.itely
suppress many human emotions ,is likely to iiuerlere inconveniently with the .ittainnient of his
objects. Mut the result is not altogether ple.ising. No harder taskmasii!r i:ver lived than w.is
Kitchener during the years that he Wius engaged in (irep.iring for his great cou/> , and loval and
zealous as w<-re his chosen instruments, there could not have Ix-en much real love- lost lietwet-n
them and this man of stt'el. [t was well known during that pt'riod that service with the Sirdar
was " all right so tar as it went." but Ijeyond a certain |X)int it was painfully precarious. J.uch
human considerations as ill-li(,-alth, or occasional longing for a changt; of scene, did not weigh
with the Sirdar. Nothing was good t'liough for him but absolute fitness 'and continuous
applicati<in. II a man's health broke down temporarily under the' strain there was nothing
more to be said, lie could go homi-, but he could not ex|)ect to come back. Kitchener has
no patience with suliordinates who cannot work night and day for ;i few years at a stretch.

On the other hand his marvellous forethought and attention to det^ s«Von make those
under him feel what a comfort it is to have a n-al master mind at work in any great operation
of war. That is where his services will l>e invaluable in .South Africa. Where there has been
confusion there will soon be complete order, deficiencies will be made up, badly-working parts
will 1«; adjusted. Then suddenly one day we shall wake up and find the whole thing done,
and done so thoroughly, that everyone will be surprised that it was not done Ijefore. It is quite
possible, too, that some feelings will Ije jarred, some reputations, even, shattered in the |)rocess.

SIR RICHARD HARRISON.

ACCORDING to an ancient military rhyme, the whole duty of a Roy;-'. Engineer
consists in " a-ilijjging up of holes, and a-sticking in of poles, and a-building of
barracks for the soldieree." Hut most men in the street, in these enlightened days,
know better than that, and are fully awnre that the Scientific Corps, in the variety of
its responsibilities, the importance of its duties, and the singular competence with which these
responsibilities and dutii's are respectively supported and discharged, occupies in the Service a
position which commands unfailing and universal respect. Of this remarkable corps the head
and front is the Inspector-General of Fortifications, General Sir Richard Harri'ion, an official
who is grouped with the Adjutant-General, Quarter-Master-General, and Director-General of
Ordnance, as one of tin; gre.it Si.iff Officers of the Army in charge of military departments
under the general superintendence of the Commander-in-Chief.

As Insf)Cctor-General of p'ortifications. Sir Richard Harrison is not concerned, be it
undcrstcKxl, with the administration and discipline rf the Royal Engineers. Hut his respon-
sibility towards the nation in th(! matter of defensive works, more especially as regards their
construction, brings a very large proportion of the Corps under his supervision, and, |)roud
as he is, and ought to be, of the grand personnel of his DepartnT^vt, it is safe to .say that
the Sappers as a body are quite as proud of Sir Ri'-! \-: :. Harrison as their le.iding
representative at Head Quarters, and on the joint Naval and Military Committee on
Defence.

Sir Richard's war-record is a p.irticularly distinguished one. P-ntering the Royal
Engineers at the age of i8 in 1855. he was actively engaged in the Indian Mutiny Campaigns
of 1857-9, and among other operations was present at the siege and capture of Lucknow. He
next served with distinction in the China War of i860, taking part in the capture of the
Taku Forts and the ,idvance on Pekin. In the South African war of 1879, Colonel Harrison
was, during the Zulu Campaign, .Senior Royal Engineer at Head Quarters and afterwards
A.Q. M.G., in which capacity he fought at Ulundi. In July and August he commanded
the flying column, and during the operations against Sekukuni and the Boer agitations of
1879-80 he commanded the troops. In the Egyptian Exjiedition of 1882 Colonel Harrison
was Chief Staff Officer on the lines of communication, and was present at Tel-el-Kebir. in a
similar capacity he took^part in the Kile I'-.\pedition of 18S5.

As a Staff Oftkc- in time of peace Sir Richard Harrison has had an equally brilliant
career. He holds thi. Staff College certificate and is as well known at Aldershot as he ir.
at Chathimi, having .served there as a Brigade-Major, Assistant Adjutant and Quarter Master-
General, and Commanding Royal lingineer. Before becoming, in 1S98, Inspector-General
of I'ortifications, Sir Richard was, for over five years, the respected and popular chief of
the Western District, the Head-quarters of which are at Devonport.

Gk.nlkai, sir RICHARD HARRISON, K.C.U., C.M.c,., .;.]

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SIR BINDON BLOOD.

AMONC; tlif many liiv;lily ilistiiv^'iiislicd offucrs n( (hi- Koyul l-jij^inctTS Sir Riiulon Rlnod
holds an hoiMuncl place, and Ix'lon^s. niorrnvt-r, In .i xrry select contin^tint.
Cninp.iratiMilv tew Sapjjcr ntVuirs h.ive risen l<< eminence as leaders in the held.
and <>l these (hnsen lew Sir Kindnn lilodd is em|)hatically one. Me c.mnot as ypt
be ranked with the late Lord Napier nl" Mai;dala n<ir with l.unl Kitchener nl Kharlniim, hut
his reputation rests on a very solid hasis ol re.il ,il>ility and line achievement. His work on
the Indian l-'rontier in iS()7-8 wa.s splendid throuj.;iiout, and may In- studied with advantage
in the ijr.iphic description of thi' operations of the Malakand I'ield l'"orce hy Mr. Winston
Spencer (luirchill an admirahle account ol' an instructive and thoroughly well-managed
campai:,'n. No mean critic, lor all his youth. Mr. Churchill h.id special opportunities
of ^jau^^iiij,' his (ieneral's ca|)acities, and was eviilently impressed liy them to (|uite an
extraordinary ilej^rc^e.

Major-General .Sir Hiiidon Blood is the eldest son of the late Willi. un Hindon RNmhI, |-!s(1.,
of Cranaher. County Clare, and was horn in iH.jj. H<- enti-red the Koyal I'!n^ine<;rs in iS6o
and saw no war service until iS;;, wh<-n he took part as a Ciptain in the jowaki lix|)«'dition.
In 1879 he served in the Zulu Camp.iitjn, for his sirvices in which he received a hrevet
majority. In 1S70 80 he was husy ti^^htini,' •' .Afy^hanistan. and in 1882 served with the
lCj;yi)ti.in Kxpedition and was present .it the h.ittle of Tel-el-Kehir. Mere Major Hl<K)d won
a mention in I )(sp,itches .uid a hv-y'. I.ieuten.iiit Colonelt \ .

In 1895 C<)lon<'l Hlood accon)paiiied the ( hiiral Relief I-'orce as Chief Staff Ofificer, in
which ca|)acity he was presiMit at all the priiicinal actions and rapidly consoliilated his fjrowin^
rejiutation. Hmerj^'in;^ from this campai^'n a K.C.H. and appointed to a Hrij^adier-General's
command in Henj,'al. .Sir Hindon IMood was happily selc'cted to deal with the early irihal
outbreaks which suhs<'(|u(MUly cicveloped into the ^re.it I'roiuier risin).;s of 1S97 S. Mere, as
already remarked, he did conspicu(jus ser\ice, taking' |iari in what were. |)ractically speakinj;.
four distinct sets of oper.itions, l-'irst as Comni.ui(l<T of the M.ilakand I'ield I'"orce he cleared
the Swat Valley and relie\etl Ch ikdara ; next he op. r.itt-d in the .Mohmand countrv ; thirdly
he had command of the Huner Meld Force; and lastly he took p.irl in the I ir.di I-lxpedition
under Sir Willi.u^i Lockhart hor thes<' services he was repeatedly mentioned in Despatches
and was specially promoted to the r.uik of Major-Cicneral.

Sir Hindon Hlood now commands the Meerut District of the Hen^al Army, and, with
six campaij,nis to his credit and a gr.ind reputation for sa^'acity and thoroughness, he m.ay
well look forward to hiL,'her things. He married in 1883 a daughter of that very distinguished
Indian official. Sir Auckland Colvin.

SIR H. E. COLVILE.

Tl 1 1'". c)lil type it( Gii.inls' orficiT, so llainlKiyaiilly diiscrilxid in Ouidii's earlier novels
anil so arcuratcly ikctched in W'hytc- Melville's " Dijjliy (irand," is rapidly becoming
nearly as iixlinct as the Dndu. The lattiT-day (iuardsnian certainly continues to be
a so( ial factor of some interest and value, but, iis a ruli', Ik- takes the military career
very much more seriously than, in ninety-nim- cases out of a hundred, he; r.ttempted to ilo
.1 ^jeneration or two kick, and not infrequently he strikes out lines for hinisi-lf which are
marked by sin;;ular adventurousness and ori^'inality. .An admirable fi^htin^' man hi; has always
b«'en, an excellent sportsman he olten is by heredity and sheer force of circumstances.
Mut the combination of thou^ditfulness, intellectu.d (|uality, and anxi(;ty to strike out a new
path, however .irdiious, which marks the modern (]uardsnian is a sij^m of the times, and not
a b,id si;;n either. And cert.iinly in few (iuards' Officers are these characteristics more
strongly and nvire happily ilevelop<;d than in the fme solilier and clever resourceful man who
commands the C.uanls' Mriijaili; in the South African Field Force.

H(;nry lulwanl Colvile was born in 1852, and entered the Grenadier Guards as an
i'!nsij;n .md Fieut(;nant — those weri; days when Guards' Officers held brevet rank in the
Army — in 1X7(1. i'oss«'s.sed of ampli- me.ms .mil a recognised position he might have taken
life very much more comfortably th.m he has done. But with him soldiering in one sha|)e
or another has .dways come first, .mil for nearly four years he performed the not very
thrilling, but unijuestionably im|)or:ant duties of regimental Instructor of Musketry; from 1880
to 1883 he w.is an A.D.C. at the Cape; and in 1884 he obtained employment in the
Intelligence I)e|)artment in the .Soudan. Me was [iresent at the battles of Peb and Tamai,
and later on in the sjmie year, w.is s(M'cially employed in the Nilt; l-'xpedition, from which
he emerged with the C.B. From 1885 to 188S he was on thi; .Staff in Egypt, and during
that period was employi'd with the Frontier l''ield F'orce, and was present at the action of
Giniss. F'or his war services in these campaigns Colvile was rept;atedly mentioned in
Despatches, and achieved a solid reputation as one of the best Intelligence Officers
in the .Armv.

In 1893 Colonel Colvile was sent to the Uganda Protectorate ;is Acting Commissioner,
and in 1894 he commanded the Unyoro Expedition which, thanks to his e.'ccellent
arrangements and the grit and go of his lieutenant, the late " Rixldy " Owen, was a
conspicuous success. Forced to retire from Uganda by ill health he came home, and
in 189S was promoted to the rank of Major-General. After a short spell of service in
commanil of .1 brigade at Gibraltar, General Colvile was given command of the
Guards' Hrig.ide m South Africa, a position in which he has already greatly distinguished
hinise-lf at Belmont, and the rest of Methuen's hard-fought battles.

is a writer of considerable merit, having published two bright
A Ride in Petticoats and Slippers" and "The Accursed Land,"
Besides' com|)iling the Official History of the Soudan Campaign for the War Office in 1886.

General Colvile
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SIR CHARLES WARREN.

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WUHX thr formation of tlic rust fmir Divisions of the Foiith African Fifhi Force
was aiiiiimiu-ctl, ami it tiaiis|)iiicl that, amoiii^ the (iciicral ( )iricfrs sflcilcil for
l)i\ i-i lal crininianils, Liciitcnaiit-Cii-ncral Sir Charles Warren, iintwithst.indinH;
his ( • u'lisive and ]iriuli:'r kiiowlt'dj^rc of local coiuiilions anil reciiiirenients, was
not iiicJiiiled, no oni' who "knows these tliini,fs" was jfroally surprised. Sir Charles Warren
is eiiipiiatic.i'ly a strong; man, and, like a j,food many other stroiii; men, he is apt to conduct
himself in a controversv with a viijjour which is not only resiiueil hy his opponents hut is
not always pleasing to impartial onlookers. It is ,i pity, of course, that what is after all a
form of indepc. '"iice should militate a;,Minst ,ui officer's j)ri>f(ssion.il adv.mceinent, hut it is
"iuiman n.iture " iliai it should do so. and a v;('neral who ac(|uires the reput.ition of In-iny;
"a ilitlkult man to ^et on with' must e\])ect to he occ.isionally left out in the C(jU1.
Hap]iily for Sir Charles Warren, more than four Divisions s(K)n iK-came necessary in South
.\lric;i, and, when the comm.md of a fifth was offered io and accepted hv him, everyone was
l^ratihed that person;;! considerations had not Ion;.; del.ived tlx- emplovmfnt in thi '. trouhlous
cc...i.i'4n o| one of the most ca|).d)le and 1<\ el headed olticer. in our .\rmv.

Si- Ch.irles Wanen was horn on I'ehru.iry 7th, 1S40, .uid enti-teil the Royal F,n),;ineiTS
!>eceinl.'T, 1S57. In his early days he w.is chielly en;,,M^ed in crtimection with the
e.\| ' '.-ation and survey of {'.destine. His first experience of active service was in the South
.Africar War of iS7;-g. He went ihrouijh the Kaffir Campaij^n with j^'rcal distinction,
winning; thrte mentions in Des[)atches and a hrevet I.ieutenant-Coloneicy. Returninj{ to
Iui:.,daiid, h' was apjiointed to an Instructorship in Sur\eyin^ at the Chatham -School of
Military ',n;,dneerini,'. He held this post from iSSo to iS,S4, hut was c.illeil away in iSS;
i )r s|)eci.il service under the .\ilmir,dty in connection with the murder of IVof/ssor Palmer,
who had ')een SLMit out at the time of Arahi Pash.i's lehellion to nej,'otiate with the Hedouin
tril>"s in the Sinaitic Peninsula. In Novemher. 1.S.S4, Sir Charles Warren was sent out to .South
.Africa, wl ere he did excellent ser\ic(' as a milit.iry .idministrator. ami in 1SS5 saved the
British Ciovernment an infinity of trouhle ,uid expense hy his adinir.ihle conduct of the
(xiieilition a;,'ainst the Hoer tilihuslers in liechuan.dand. Ilavinj,' or;,'aiii/id a suiiahle colonial
force, M arren marched into liechuan.iland and, hy skilful stratejj;y and the exercise of <,'reat
tact, simply pressed the fililiusters hack over the l)order without entering' into a sm-de
enjratrcment. The result of this thoroui;hly well-conducted little expedition was The
conversion of Hechuanid.md into a British Colony, which has heen easily and (piietly
administered ever since, with the exception of the tr.msieni trouhles attendant on the
present w ir.

I-"rom 1S89 to 1894 .Sir Charles Warren was in military comniaml of the Straits
Settlements, first as Colond on the Staff and afterwards as l<rii,Mdier-(;eneral. His tenure
of this appointment was not a particularly happy (me, owinj,' io some disa^rreenient with
the civil authorities, in which the tinge of acerhity in the Cicneral's teni,,.:r was somewhat
conspicuously revealed. In 1895 Sir Charles V/arren iH-cime Major-(uneral in command
of the Thames District, headquarters Ch.itham, and in 1897 was promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant-(ieneral. H ".-.iidctl in South .Attica ii- command of the I-'ifth Division of the
Flelu I-'orce in DecemlK , 1899, and at onc<> proceeded to join Sir R(>dvers Huller on the
hanks of the Tujrela, and ■,.. assist in the latter's strenuous efforts to relieve the Ijeleairuered
garrison of Ladysmith. *"

SIR CHARLES WILSON.

iROM Korti to Khiirtuin : a Journal of tin- Desert March from Korii to Gul)at, and
of the Ascent of thi- N'ile in (ii'in'ral (Portion's Steamers," is the title of a very
stirring' ami a(hiiirai)ly written littli! l)ook which has passeti throiyh a 1,^001! many
editions ami is a model of soldierly UK.desty and Ljood taste. It is the work of the
principal acior in the supreme i.'ffort made to relieve (lortlon, and there is scarci^ly a paj^e
of it which is not full of dramatic interest ami which does not at the same time ins|)ire a
very warm feelinj^ of admiration for the gallant aiid distinguished author. There have heen
acrimoniiius crili) s of (he Nile l^xpedition in ;' neral, and of the Desert March in particular,
as possihly not the hest steps which could in the circumstances have heen taken. Hut none
of these criticisms alfect the re|>uiation of Sir Charles Wilson as a man and a soldier, and
it will i)e m.uiy a Ion;; day Ix'tore the march of .Ste-wart's force across the Hayuda .Sti'ppe,
the actions of .\l)u Kle.i ami I'll (lubat, and Wilson's i^rallant dash in a " [)enny steamer'
to within slight of Khartum are forgotten hy those to whom sjjlendid endurance and
mai.;nilicent courai^e, in the pre.seiice of almost certain death, briivjf a thrill of satisfaction and
().itrioiic |)ride.

It is hy his brilliant attemiu, when, alas, it was too late, to open ct)mmunication with
his .ilreaily murdered brother officer that this ilistinjjuished and accom|)lished Royal
l'!m,'ineer is chieliy known to his appreciative countrymen, and the writer reij^rets that the
story is too long to be incluiled in this sketch. Hut those who have reail " l'"rom Korti to
Khartum " will not need to have the tale re-tolil, while those who tlo not know the jjook
have a pl<Msure in store from a liti'rary as well as a military st.mdpoint. The journal, it
should l)e mentioned, was not written with a view to publication, but only saw the light at
the urgent instance of discerning friends. At the end of the preface Sir Charles Wilson
says: "The failure of the Relief Hx|)edition to attain its object was deeply and sincerely
deplored by everyone in the force by none more so than myself, for General Gorilon was
not only a brother officer but a [lersonal frieml. It failed ; but, to (ji'ote Lord Wolseley's
words, 'this was from no lack of courage or of discipline, of dash or of endurance.'"

.Sir Charles William Wilson, K.C.H., was born in 1836, and entered the Royal
Kngineers in 1855. From 1869 to 1876 he war Assistant (Juartermastcr-General of the
Intelligence Depanmenl at Army Heachjuarters. From 1879 to 1882 he was Consul-
tjeneral in Asia Minor, and in the latter year ht; accompanied the Kgyptian Expedition. From
1884-5 he served with the Nile Kxfx;dition, in which, before acting as Sir Herbert Stewart's
a/Ur i[i;o and successor, he was originally Chief of the Intelligence Department.

From 1886 to 1894 .Sir Charles Wilson was busily and usefully employed as
Director-General of tlu- Ordnance Survey, and in 1895 he became Director-General of
Kducation, his l.ist appointment before his retiremeiit in March, 1898.

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THE LATE GENERAL WAUCHOPE.

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I" ,ill tli<- main (lisliiv^uislu , sulilicrs who li;ive f.illcii in llic omrse nf tin; St'contl

liocr War, there is nut nne whose loss has createil a greater i^ap than the •.;,iilailt

lighter and true-iiearted Seoiiish j^eiitlrnian whom, practically spiakini^, the whole

Highland race knew ami adored as " .\va\) Waiu hope," It .idded not imon^idi'rably

sorrow his death ins))ired tiiat his v.ihied life was thrown .iw.iv in one ot tliose

e.\trava),;ances with wiiich the earlier |)h,ises of the w.ir .dionnded.
snre that to W'anchopt' himself no eiulin^; to his i^r.nid fis^htini,' career wiaik
acce|)t;d''' than death in action at the '.ie,id of .i liiu;li!,u\d liriyaiie.

lint we m.iy l*<!
h.ive Keen mort!

.\part from his record as a soldier, which will l>e found outlined helou, ( iener.il
Waiichopc w,is ,1 ti;aive ol u;reat interest to the i,'t;neral i)ul)lic. Ila\ini; suci ceded on the
de.ilh <A his elder hrolher, in iSSj. to the lamily estate of Xidilrie, in Midlothian. com|)risin4 some
\aliiaMe coal-miniiiL; pro])erty. he turned his .itteniion lo politics, and w.is w ithin ine,isuri-.d)le
distance ol heatin;^ Mr. (il.idstoni' when the Litter contest<'d Midlothian in iS()2. in |une.
iSqo, he contested South l]dinl)iirv;h in opposition to Mr. .Arthur l)ewar, but w.is ,i<^,u'n
beaten li\ .i comp.iratively small ni.ijority in a v<ry kirijc poll. As .i politician W'.iuchope
was, as mi;^ht h.i\<' becMl expected from his f;itiucs and his work as a soldier, a little
arbitrary perhap-,. but tin; essence of uncom()romisin- lionest\. combined with litter fe.irlessness
.md the n.itLM-.d sluewdness of th( cunn .Scot, accentuated by consider.ible i ulf re and wide
e.\perienc<'.

.\s a soldier W.nichope will be chirliy renicmb' re<l in conneitio.i with ihe old
•• 1-c.rty Twa,' which he entereil as an [*"nsion at the n'^i- o| nineteen in 1865. His lirst
war service was with Wolseley in the first .\sk mti W.ir .if 1 ;; 5 4, in which ihtj Black Watch
were enura;,;ed, Wauchope himself obtainin;,,' special emplouiien; ,is commander of a ccmip.iny
in Baker Russell's native rei^inient. He was alterw'ards appointed .Staff Officer with rhe
.Advanced (iuard. ami w,is (jp^senl in .1 number ot en-,iu;einenis, including,' the li.ittles of
Anioalul and Ord.ihsu, where he w.is sevenk wounded. In l.S.Sj Captain Wauchop,- sirved
with the 1st Hatt.dion of the Black W.it. h ii, Iv^ypt, and was pn.'senl .it Tel-. I Kebir. In
1884 he was on Sir ( ierald tir.ih.im's si, iff in th<' Sud.m and •. is severely woiindeil ,ii i;| '|'eb.
l-"or this he received a Brevet l.ieut.n,int-( "ulonelcy. In 1 8S4 5 he was sever.lv wounded
tor the third time -at Kirbekan, haviiiL; accomp.mied the column under ( lineral Iv.irle in
the Xile i:\pedition. In 1894 Colonel Wauchope, who In this linv was both a CM,*!,
(1880) ,md a C,B. (1889), obtained the command of ihi; :;nd Bl.ick Watch, which he hfld
until .August, 1898.

In the autumn of 1 8(>8 Wauchope led the isi Bri.,,Mde of the British Division of Lord
Kitchener's l-'orce to Khartoum. He w.is present .it the battle of Omdurni.m, and on the-
conclusion of the camp.u'Mii w..., specially promotid to Major C.ener.il for distinijuished serviced
On the formaiion of the I'ield borce for South Afric.i, h'e w.is vrjv.ii the command of the
Hi-hlaml Briirade, .o.isisiin- .,f the 2nd Bl.ick Watch, the 1st Hi).;h!and I.iwht Infantry
2nil Se.ilorths, and ist Argyll ,md .Sutherland 1 lij^hlanders. His bri^r.ui,., which w.is on its
way to Natal, was stopped at Cape Town and sent up to reinforce Lord Methueii, with wh.mi
General Wauchope had .-.rly served .1 f,;w d.iys when he met his death in the ill st.irred
attack on the Ma;.fersf()ntein hills on December 11.

SIR LESLIE RUNDLE.

i^Rv~)M()'l"l()\ in tho Hritisli Army is an instiliition of a very cr)m|)l('.'': and, withal,
.^J uncertain sort. At times it seems to ^o, very miicli like kissin},^, by faxoiir ; init it is
inilispu'ahle that now-a-ilays it is almost im|)ossil)le (or an officer, however many
iulvantaj^cs he may possess in the matter of lofty connc^ctions and private means, to
att.iin re.ilJN' hij^ili and responsible military rank unless he is a man of irenuine and prov(;d capacity.
On the other hand, it is, hapfiily for the wellhein^ of our .Service, ([uite within the scope of
anyone with brains and enerj^y to rise rapiilly to at any rati' the rank of Colonel, even thoujjh
he may not be exceptionally favoured l)y fortune ir) the way of family, friends, or money
whtTfwith to sup|)ort the e.\|)ens(.'s of corps in which promotion to field rank comes ([uickly.
As a rule, the list of (iencral Officers is seldom attaini'd by th(' avera!j;e plain man umler the
age of 50. lUit there art! brilli.mt exceptions, and of these one of ihi' most brilliant is the
subject of this skeJ<h, who w.is appointed to the command of the I-'i^nth Division for .South
Africa, wilii temporary rank as I .ieutenant-deneral, iufore reaching; the aL;e of 44.

llinr\ Macleod Leslie Kundle was born f)n January 6th, 1S56, and entered the Royal
.Artillery as a Lieutenant in .Aui^iist, 1S76. He soon saw service, first in .South Africa, in 1879-81,
where he went throui,di both the Zulu and Transva.-il campaij^nis, winning; mentions in Desp.itches
for lK)th. In the former he was pres'-nt at I'lundi. in the latter he took part in the heroic
defence of i'oichefstroom, in the course of whicii he was wounded. In i<SS2 younij Rimdle
served \n thtr l-ij^yptian {expedition and was present at 'l"el-el-Kebir. In 188,^ he joined the
I'i^'yptian Army, and ' i8,S4-5 was employed with it in the Nile Lxjiedition on the lines of
communication. recei\t'i' iiiother mention in I )espatches anil a brevet Majority.

I'rom 18S5 to 189S Kundle's career in I'-^vpt was one of continueil distinction both as
a military .ulministrator and a fiijhtin}^ soldier. In 1885-6-7-9-91 he was enj^avjeil in theopeiations
of the I'rontier I'ield I*"orce. commanileil the Mounti'il Corps at Sarras, and the Artillery at
Tonki. .md came out of the fi^ditiuL; with the Distinguished .Service Order and a brevet Lieutenant-
Colonelcy. In 1891 he was present iilso at the capture of i'okar. In 1896 hi' accompanied
Lord Kitchener as Chief of the .Staff in the I'"xpedition to Donirola, and was created a K.C.B.
and a Major-(ieneral. In 1S97-S he served a; Chief of the .Staff in the advance on Khartoum,
and was at the .Sirdar's right ha;ul, as a trusted ,11111 sagacious adviser, ;>t the battle of Omdurmaii.

.After the collajise of the Mahdist power, several of Kitchener's best men, having grandly
accom|)lisheil their work and, perhaps, not altogether relishing the pros[H:ct of peaceful pros-
perity which seemed in store for Kgypt, returned to Lngland. Sir Leslie Rundle was
naturally not allowed to remain unemployed at home, and the .South-Lastern District, head-
i|iiarters Dover, l)eing vacant, he was oftered the command, and assumed it in December, 1898.
During the early summer of 1899 he was temporarily taken away from his District to assist
in the maiiiL-uvre training of the Hritish Army on .Salisbury Plain. On the outbreak of the
war in .South .Africa he was summoned to Army Headquarters to temporarily replace Sir
Cornelius Clery as Dejiuty Adjutant-Ceneral to the Forces. In December last, as we have
seen, he was appointed to the command of the Lighlh Division of the South African Field
Force, at an age' wlu-n most officers are well content to be junior majors in the performance
of regimental duty. With such a career behind him, and such possibilities ahead, it will not
l)e surprising if .Sir Leslie Rundle eventually rises to the very highest honours which the
Itritish Army has to Ix'stow.

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GENERAL FRENCH.

LIF.UTP.XAXT-GF.NP.RAI. JOHN nHNTOX IMNKSTONF. FRKNCH was
l)()rn in 1852, aiul fiucrcd the Arinv in 1S74. I lis rc.^invntal service was with the
19th Hussars, with whom he served in tlie S.,ii(ian in 1SS4.5. winning a mt-nlion
in l)('S|)atches fur his behaviour at Alni-Klei. l-'roni 1S81 to 18S4 ho was a
Yeomanry Adjutant, from 1885 to 1887 an Assistant Adjutant-Cx-neral at Army Ih-ad-
Quarters, and from 1897 to the outbre.ik of the second
Cavalrv Urisjade at Aldershot.

H.>er

he commandeil the

ted a few month'.

a^o
that

A rather rare spi'cialty. N'miUL,' enoui^h U<
viij;oiir and nerve, old enouL^h Vi !«■ experiencec
o! laru'e anil serious cnniplications

unit is involved
c,i\alry command

Such, in outline, w.is the |)revious career of thi' officer .i|)|)omt(
to the comin.uui of the Cavalry Division in Soutii Africa, and to many it mi.i,'ht seem
such a coinp.irativelv modest record would hardly justify selection for such an exceedingly
important post. Hut it was well known throu!,dviut the Service that I'rench was one of
the foremost Cav.dry le,id<Ts of the day, aiul, Ixjth at Aldershot and at m.miL-uvres, he hail
j,'iven repe.iti'd demonstrations of his capacity to handle l.irj;e lH)dies of mounted troops with
that li.ippv mixture of .uulaciiy .md s.ii^acity which m.ik<-s cav.ilry-le.idin^' of the highest sort

lavi; retained .all th.it is necessary of tire and
I as well as cool ami collecH-d in the presence
f larj,'e and serious c. implications which is a very different thin;; from merely a " tij^ht
corner" in which a small unit is involved l-'rench, in the absence of Sir (ieor^;e Luck,
was clearly the man for the civalry command in .South .Africa. Hut few expected th.it he
would justify his .tppointmeiu with such comjileteness and brilli.mcy as h.ive char.icterize<l
his work at the tiin.'e points in the theatre of war at which he h.is already, at the time of
writiii:;. left his in. irk.

'i'he first that we he.ird of General I'rench in South .Africa w.is that he had won, with
Sir Geor^t; White as ,-in interested spectator, the blocKly but entir<-ly successful Uitlle of
r.landslaa^'te. 'i'herc was, there cf)uld not f.iil to Ix.'. a sort <if feelini,; at th<r time that tiiis
victory, won uiid(?r the eyes of an experienced senior, w.is not such .1 triiim|)hant tribute
to the younger ijeneral's capacity as it iltl havi; U:en hatl the o|)cration Ix-en .1 purely
indepeiuient one. Hut later events have s vn that French reijuires no su|)ervision -which
indeed Sir Geori^e White exjjressly disdain d exercising at Flandslaagte aiul that he can
mana'uvre, if necessary, forces of all arms with perfect ease and skill in the presence of
perhaps the most thorougiily .irtful enemy in the world.

Kscajiiiig from Ladysmitli just before the
desjiatched to the line Fort I^liz.ibeth N'aauwi)ort

15c KT forces closed around it, French »vris
.Arundel, ami for weeks, by a grantl display

of cavalry tactics, kept the Hoers const.mtly "on the go" around Rensburg and ColesbiTg.
His work in this quarter will go down to history ;is some of the most perfect work of the
kind ever accomplished, and it is a matter of some regret that he should have been prevented,
by a summons to yet more imjiortant duties, from carrying it to a logical conclusion.

On February iith F'rcjnch left Modder River with the Cavalry Division. On February
15th he relieved Kimberley, the interval being filled up with a series of movemer s of
dazzling rapidity and unerring .iccuracy. We need not ex|)atiate uiK)n this perfon, . ice,
splendid as it has been, for the simple reason that it will probably be outshone in a few
weeks by other and still more brilliant achievements on the part of this heaven-lx)rn cavalry
general, who never seems to fail to "come off" just at the right moment and with complete
effect.

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GENERAL MARSHALL.

MAJOR-GKNKRAL GFORGE HENRY ' .SHALL, commandin^j the Royal
ArtilU'ry of the l-Orces in South Afric , indebted to the IJoers for thi- chance
of accjuirin^ in the Official (Juarlcriy Army List — familiarly known as the
'* Uirthday Book " — the crossed swords which indicate that an officer has seen war
service. But, althouj^h he has had no jirevious experience of the tented field, Genera! Marshall
had a distinct reputation as an artillerym.Ji, and, even if his duties in South Africa iiad been
those of a battle-leader, would assuredly have distinguished himself, as Gunners have a
knack of dt)injj whenever half-a-chance [)resents itself.

General Marshall was born in 1843, and entered the Royal Artillery in 1861. After
a lonjj and honourable career of rei^imental iluty he bec.ime, in 1893, Chief Instructor at the
.Sch<M)l of Gunnery, at Shoeburyness, a post which he licjd until 1897. In October of the
latter year he was transferred to .Aldershot, in conunaiul of the Royal .ArtilU;ry of the District,
an ap|)ointnient which, it is needless to say, is nev<.'r ij[ivcn to any but Gunner officers possessinif
peculiar qualifications, anionjj which up-to-dateness must necessarily be prominent. His
ui)-to-date (|uality was displayed with sufficient clt'arnt'ss by General Marshall in connection
with the Artillery traininjj on Salisbury I'lain in the early half of last year. 'Vith not far off
a hundred jjuns under his command he was enabled to carry out some striking' demonstrations
of that concentration of fire from a number of massed batteries wliicli is the essence of nuxlern
artillery tactics on a larj^e scale.

In South .Africa, General Marshall occupies an extremely responsible jwsition, but his
responsibilities must not be unduly .stretched to cover deficiencies in which he is not in any
way concerneil. With the orijjinal selection of the artillery despatched to South .Africa, with
the (juality of the ^juns, with the nature of the ammunition, he had nothini:; to do. For the
j.;cneral workinjj of the Artillery durinjf the course of the war he is responsible, and, as th<it
has been notably successful, it seems likely that Major-General Marshall's name in future
.Army Lists will have somethinjij else besides crossed swords affixed to it. T'or it is an
im[X)rtant service to have controlled in such a campaign not only such a number of men and
ffuns, but such a diversity of ortlnance, rany;ini,' from the screw-ijun of the mountain battery
to the |M>nderous 8-inch howitzer, which can drop 118 lbs of compressed de.struction into an
enemy's position four or live miles distant.

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SIR JOHN ARDAGH.

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AN cxtri'inily intcristiiv^ ;im!, it <^nvs withmit s.iyinx, .ilruost vit.illy iiiiport.mt milit.iry
iiisiiuiliiiii is iiiir liit<lli;;<HLi' I U'p.irimciit, wliitli is liousnl ([uitf st'par.ilrly Irmn
till- War Oltkr ,a rS, Oikcm Aiiih-'s (ialc. Ilcrr t-vrry sort of inr«>rinatinn rc-
^'aniiii;; I'ori'i;,'!! armies, ami possiMf ihratns of w.ir abroail, is colli'ctrtl and
i-ollatcil 1)V a staff of specially chosen offuiTS. amoiiv^ wlioin are some very " liraiiiy " iiuli\ iiliials
ituleeil. i'iie lleail of this <slalilisliiileiit. the I )ir<( t^r of Military |ntelh:4eiue as hi is olfu iaily
called, must necessarily be a highly accompiished. widely experieiued, and many sided man.
Not only must he be a master of 'military art and history, able to swiftly disc rimni.ite biiween
what is and what is not military intelligence in the true sense of the word, but he must also
Im! .1 lin;;uist of some cajiacity, an or;j;,uii/er and administr.itor. and even a diplom.itiM. It
must be remembered, too, that fx offhio the 1 )irector of Milil.iry Intelli'^ence is a member
of the joint Na\Ml and Military Committee on Defiiuc and is liabli' to lonst.uit rj'feri'iices
not only from the War Oft'ice but directly liom the Ciovi riunent itself Thi- present holder
of this exceeiliiiijly respon-,ible position is a Koyal hln^^ini'er with a hi'^^hly distin.;uishi'd . areer.
in which ilnrc will doubtless be included a j^ood many more ye.irs of useful .nhievenien uui
honourable ilistinction.

Sir John ("harK's Ardaj^di was born in .•\u;,'usi, 1840, and entered the Koy.il Kn^ineers
in tS5y. Having p.issed throui,'h tlw Staff (.■ollij,;e he was api)ointed in 1X76 heputy
Assistant Quarter- .M..ster-i;ener.il of the lnti'lli;,.;eiu e Hr.inch, ami until the end of 1881 was
employed either at Ilea(l(|u.irters or on speci.il sirvii<' in I'urkey. When not c.unpai;,;nin);
Sir John Arda^h was usu.illy to be found either in I'all M.ill or .it the S(ho.,| of Military
I'!n;4ineerin;^, at ("liathani, one pli-.isant interval of five ye.irs bein;^ S|)ent in India .is I'riv.ile
S<'cretary to the \'icero\-. in that i'a]),ii iiy it is possibli: for a m.m of p.irts to le.irn iniu h
of thrilliiv^ interest and .ibidini; value, for the Indian \'ic«'roy's I'rivate Secret. iry is necess.irily
brouijht into the clos<?st touch with m.my niovements of (|uite cxtraordin.iry si;;nific.iiue.
Nothin:,' of what passes in India durin;^ his term of office need b«r hidden from him, and
his |)o-,ition is one which calls constantly for the exercise of unreniittiiii,' industry ,ind nearly
sublime tact. As a m.itter of almost presrripti\e li^ht the cx-IViwite Se( rei.iry to the X'iceroy
of Indi.i receives a kni:;hthood for his services, .md Sir John .Xrd.ij^h's K.l'.I.K. is a li.ippy
and well-earned acknowledj^nient of the period from iSSy to 1894 which he gave up to this
imi)ort.mt and highly coveted appointment.

Iiut .Sir John Ardai,di is no carpet kni.;ht. Fn the F;;ypti,in Ivxpeilition of 18S.; 84,
he came distinctly to the front, beinj; jjresi'iu at the operations at Alex.mdri.i and the b.itlle
of Tel-elKebir, while in ihi! .Soudan in 1S.S4 he was Comm.indin:^ Koyal l''.n^,'ineer ami
chief of the liuelliircnci,' I)e|)artm(mt, .iiid took jiart in tin; batili-s of Teb ami Tanjai. In

the .Nile Ivxpedition of 1.SS4 S5 he was iJ.ise Command. iiit at (!airo, and he .ilso served
th(! Soudan with the i-'rontier b'ield i'orce in 1S85 86 as -Assist, int .\djutant-Cieneral. 1
all tlirei- camiiaii^'iis he was mentioned in Despatches and for " l\i,'ypt, 18S2 ' received the C.H

In 1895 (ieneral Anlaijh was .ip|)ointed Commandant of the .School (if Military
En^4ineerin^^ which he left in 1.S96 to become Director of Military !ntelli;^i-nce. Last year
he -ttended as a British delegate the I'eace Conference at the Hague.

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THE LATE GENERAL WOODGATE.

0\F. of the saddest incidents of the South African campaign has been the death of
Major (icneral Sir !•!. K. 1'. Wooiijjate from the effects ol a ti;rrii)i<: wound received
in tile disastrous li>,duinj,' on Spion Kop on January 24. 'I'he deceased officer had
only land<'il in South Africa a few weeks prjiviousiy, and his anteceii«Mit career
hail In'v.n of such marked distinction that he was l(M)ked upon as certain to emer;;e from the
campaign with a i)riMiant and consoiidaKHl reputation as a commaniier in the field. War has,
howe\cr. cl.iimeil him as a victim, and the IJritish Army is the po(jrer by the loss of a very
^.ill.uit and ,di|e li^duin^ soldier.

M.ijor (icniT.il Sir I'lilw.inl Roln-rt Prevost Wood^'ate, K.C.M.G., CM., was born in 1845,
and entered itii' olil 4th " Kiiivj's Own," now the Royal Lancaster Rejriment, in 1865. lie
served with the re>,'iment in the Abyssinian I''xp<'ilition of 1868, and was subscijui-ntly (!m|)loyetl
on s|)«'cial si-rvice in the .Ash.uiti W.ir of 1873-4 where he distinj;uished himself j^reatly, and
w.is rewarded with two mentions in ' 'espatches. In 1877 he passed throujjh the .Staff Colle^je,
and when the .South African War '■! 1879 broke out he was aj^ain selecteil for special employ-
ment, and ilid excellent si-rvici- as .Staff Officer of the l'"lyinjj Column in Zululand. Hi: was
present but!) .it IMundi and Kambula, anil at the c|r)sr rf the campaij.;n b«;came a brevet-major.

I'rum iSSo to 1885 W'ootl^ate held a staff appointnu-nt in the West Indies, and in 1893
succ«'e»leil to the comm.md of the ist Battalion of his rej^iment. In 1896 he was made a
CH.. and in 1897 he was y,'iven command of tilt; 4th Re^'imental District, I leaihjuarters
I,.inc.ister. In 189S, the War Office, having; decided to raise a new West African Rej,dment
.It .Sierra I.eone, asked Colonel Wood^jatt; to ^;o out and or^jam'/e it. This he did, performing
the duty with very j^reat skill and tact, and when, shortly afterwards, the natives in the
surrounding; districts relx-lleil aj.;ainst the hut ta.x, Wood^ate was ready for them, and in the
course of a few months compU-tt-ly suppressed tlu; rising'. For this service he was eventually
made a K.C.M.G., the (iazetttr in which the announcement was made only appearing; about
a fortniKlu before he received his fatal wound.

Returning home. Colonel Wood^'ate was ap|)ointed to the command of the 17th Rej^dmental
District, Headi|u.irters Leicester, which, however, he only heltl threi- or four months. On
the formation of Sir Charles Warren's Division he wius jjiven a post much more to his liking,
the command, namely, of the Lancashire Brij;;ide, in which a battalion of his olil regiment
w.is included. Lai\dmg in Natal in Decf-mber, WcKxlgate at once joined Buller's Force, and
on January 16 crossed tht; Tugela with Warren in order to carry out the attempted turning
moveincnl which terminateil so ilis;istrously some days later. On tht; night of January 23-24
W'oodgate ()ccupied Spion Kop, and during the ne.\t day's fighting was dangerously wounded
in the head. He was o[)erated on by the eminent surgeon, Mr. Treves, but, after lingering
for eight wtx-ks, died at Mooi River, deeply rt^gretted by a very large section of the British
Army to which he had devoted 34 years of gallant and useful servicL.

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LORD DUNDONALD.

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COCllR.WI-". tho iamilv name of the Ivarkioni of Duiulonalil, created in 1669, is more
"familiar as a hoiisohokl won!" in the Navy than in the Army. Hut the present
holder of the title. HoUfjlas Mackinnon Baill'ie Hamilton, twelfth earl, will leave a
pretty clear mark of his own upon the I, and Service of his country if he cuntinues
in his p'-esent ijroove of action at his present rate of i)roi,'ress. To him real military distinction
has not come until middle a;.,'^' -he is less than three years distant from the attainment of
his half century hut he is a very warm soldier still, and, i.;iven a few further op|)ortunities,
may rise to an eminence much more notable th.m a Colonelcy of l.ife (iuards. in the
res()lendent uniform of which he is here de|)icted.

Lord Dundonald throu^diout his rey;imental career, served with the 2nd Life Guards
in every r.uik from Cornet to Commandin'^' Officer. Ic e.ntered the regiment in the former
cajiacity in iS;o, he relinquished the command in January, iSycj. The monotony was broken in
iS,S4 5 when, as Lord Cochrane, he commanded the 2nd Life Guards Detachment of the
Soudan ("amel Corps in the Nile exp<'dition for the Relief of Gordon. It w.is he who carrie<l
the desp.itches to Korti announcing the occupatio!i of ("i.ikdul Wells, .md subsequently
brout;ht li.ick from Gubai the despatclies announcing' the fall of Khartoum. He was present
at the .ictions of Abu Klea and El Giibat, and was in comm.ind of trans|xirt and b;ijjj»ai;e
of the Desert Column in the march to Mei.immeh. For his services he received mention
in Desp.-.tches and a brevet Lieutenant-Colonelcy.

Lord Cochrane became Earl of Dundonald in succes.sion to his father in 1X85, and ten
years later attained command of the 2nd Life Guards. Always of an extremely inj^enious
turn of mind he turned his attention latterly to (he production of a ^,'.dl()pin5^ carriage for
machine jjjuns, and his first pattern, atla|>ted to the \Li.\im, elicited warm a|)provaI. Sub-
sequently an improved carria^'e designed by him was fitted to .mother machine ^un, and,
on the outbreak of the w;ir in South Africa, Lord Dundonald received permission to take
(jut one of these ^'uns on a i,rallopins,' carri.i^t- for trial at the front.

found employment

Huller, in his oiK-rations for

.uui ex|K:rienced cavalry officer of

Arrived in Xat.il the ex-commander of the " 2nd Life " was soon
on a more extend<(l scale than the trial of machine ;4uns in\olved
the relief of Ladysmith, was ^rlad to have the help nf a lini

nink to take char;;e of a mixed Mounted Uri,:;ade, and Dundonald's work, esjKcially in the
attempt, which terminated unfortunately in the withdrawal from S|)ion Kop, wii-s evidently
of a very hij(h order of mounted tactics. His seizure of l'ot^ier.(fr's Drift, an ' his subsequent
manocuvrinjr in the .advance to the Transvaal, went far towards assisting' a movement which
was not very far off beini,' brilliantly successful, and he will certainly come out of the
campaign with a serious rejiutation as a dashinjj; and skilful leailer of cavalry and mounted
infantry.

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GENERAL FITZROY HART.

WHEN a man is shown by the " Birthday Book " — that fat red volume in which most
of the facts relating to Army officers; are neatly, if somewhat obscurely, packed
away — to have put in his full share of regimental duty, to have passed through the
Staff College, to have commanded his regiment, to have held several responsible
Staff appointments, including the command of a Brigade at Aldershot, and, fmally, to have
distinguished himself greatly in three important wars, it is quite safe to regard him as a Celebrity
of the Army. When, moreover, this admirable officer happens to hold a brigade command in a
contemporary campaign, and to have achieved in it some prominence as a fif^hting leader, this
series would indeed be distinctly incomplete if his portrait — and a striking portrait it is, too —
were not included in it.

General Arthur FitzRoy Hart was born in 1844, and entered the Army in 1864 as an
Ensign in the old 31st Foot, now the ist Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. His first
experience of active service was in the Ashanti War of 1873-4 in which he was specially
employed, and was present in all the iriiportant actions, including the battles of Amoaful aiui
Ordahsu, and the capture of Cooinassie. In the South African War of 1879-81 Captain Hart
vviis again engaged, emerging from the Zulu campaign with a brevet majority, and serving in the
Transvaal campaign as DeputyAssistant-.Adjutant and Quarter-Master-General of the Natal
Field F'orce. On the despatch of Lord Wolseley's Expedition to Egypt in 1882 .Major Hart
was appointed I). A. A. and Q.M.G., Intelligence Branch, and was present at Kassassin,
Tel-el- Kebir, and several minor actions. I-'or his services in this campaign he received his
seventh mention in Despatches and his second brevet, that of Lieutenant-Colonel.

In 1 80 1 Colonel Hart obtained command of a battalion of the East Surrey Regiment and
held it for the term of four years, an experience which, to a General Officer nowadays, is
well-nigh invaluable, notwithstanding the existence of certain brilliant exceptions who have proved
wonderful leaders although tht'ir regimental experience has been of the slightest. After a s\h:\\ of
two-and-a-half years on half-pay Colonel Hart became, in 1897, the Commander of the
1st Infantry Brigade at Aldershot, a position which it is simply impossible for a m.-m to hold
unless he is a very thorough and up-to-date soldier. .As an ex-battalion commandant and a Staff
College man with plenty of war experience, Geiuiral Hart was naturally in his element as an
.Vldershot brigadier, and when the second Boer War broke out it followed almost as a matter ol"
course that he should bt; given an important apiiointment. For many weeks he was fighting at
the head of his brigade in Natal, in company with his brother brigadier at Aldershot, General
Hildyard, and under his former Aldershot chief, Sir Redvers Bullcr. It was Hart's Brigade
that entered Colenso on February 20th, on the occasion of BuUer's fourth attempt to relieve
Uileagured Ladysmith. When the siege of that place was raised General Hart took his
Brigade to the Cape Colony, where it assisted in the operations under Lord Roberts.

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SIR DRURY DRURY-LOWE.

TllKRK is no finer re^;iment to Ix- Inuiui in liie whoif British Army than tiie
17th Lancers, or, to jjivc them their very familiar nickname, the " Death or (i! >ry
Beys." Of the many distint;uishe(l officers, too, who iiave Ijeen associated with i e
wh..j plastron and the deaths head and crosslH)n(!s none In-ars a l)ctter name than
(ieneral Drurv-Lowe, who, under H.K.H. the Duke of Camhridyc, Colonel-in-Chief, holds the
Colonelcy of a corps always respected and popul.ir, anil rej^arded b> its members witli almost
passion, ite devotion

Sir Drury Cur/on Drury-i,owe w.is horn in i,S;,o, and did not enter the .Army until
he had reached the. for a first commission, mature ,ii;e of twenty lour. But no sooner h.id
he joined than he proceeded to make up for lost time by seeing' as much war service as he
conveniently could in the subse(]uenl four or five years. Comparatively lew .eterans survive
who served in both the Crime.i and the Inilian Mutiny canip.iij^ns, and (ieneral Drury-Lowe
is one of them in the former he w.is ])res('nt at the siej;e and capture of SebastoiMd, in
th<' latter he won .1 mention in Despatches for distiny;uishi'd conduct at the action of
'-^er.ipore. He ne.xt served in both the Zulu .ind Ir.msva.il C.un|).u'v;ns in South .Alric.i in
1S79 .Si. .-Xt the battle of I'lundi. where ihi- 1 ;ili l-.mcers did such siyn.il service, he w.is
slii,'htly wounded, anil at the end of the cam[).ii^n was ^'iven a C.B. In iSS; Drury-Lowe
obtained f^realer distinction as C'omm.inder first of the ("a\alry Bri;,Mde, .uid .ilterw.inls of
the Cavalry Division, in the Lj;y|)tian l..\[H'dilion of i.SSj. He was present at Mahui.i, the
ca])ture of .M.ihsameh. the action of Kassassin. and the battle of 'l"(;l-el-Kebir. But his
principal work, admir.ilils iicrformeil, was < arried ciut after the last-named victory, and
consisted in the swift pursuit of the enemy tu Belbeis, ,ind tile occupation ol Cairo. The
surrender of (."airo to the British cavalry w,is the crownin;^ achieventent of ihi' war,
and verv naturallv i>rou;rht to the man wlm accmmplislvd ji the th.mks of I'arliameut
and ,1 K.C.Ii.

W hen he has relini|uislieii the comm.uid of a crack c(jrps two distinct ambitions present
themselves to the enthusi.istic cavalry officer — one the comm.tnd of the Cavalry l>rijj;ade at
.Aldi-rshot. the other the Inspecior-CK'ni'alship of Cavalry (-ither at home or in India. Both
.unbitinns wen- realised by .Sir Drury Drury-Low(j. v\ith the added distinction of thi- (irand
C"ross ol the li.ith and the ("oloneky of his old re;^iment. To cavalry ideas of from ten to
twenty years aijo ,1 su|)erstructiire has Ix'en .idded by experience. ,ind by the bold reforms
of .Sir Geori^e Luck. Hut th.il does not detract from the excellent work done by tin- latter's
predecessors, some of whom, in addition to striving' as hard ;is w,is |)i)ssible to kfcp up the
:^eneral repui.ition of the British Army lor dash, smartness .uid iKjrsemanship, which have
always been the admir.uion of foreign critics, were very distinguished fightini; soldi<'rs.
Tactics may seem to chancre - thoujjh essentially thity are unalterable ori^ani/ation and
training' may come to he seriously niodifi( il, but we may \n- ih.uikful if in each and every
future epoch \\i- can find in th'v liiu;li'T ranks of our cavalry syste>.Ti^'i>".« and leaders like
Drury-Low, still of the "Death or (ilory Boys."

SIR FRANCIS GRENFELL.

SOME years ago General Grenfell made a ceremonious vi'jit to the place of his birth
and, like the tactful man he is, won all hearts by the full pride he displayed in the
endearing appellation, " The Swansea Boy." This faculty of saying, as well as doiny,
the right thing at the right moment, has stood Sir Francis Grenfell in good stead
throughout his career, and has gone far towards making him one of the most popular as
well as most respected officers in the British Army.

Sir Francis Wallace Grenfell was born in 1841, the 4th son of the late Pascoe
St. Leger Grenfell, F.sq., of Maesteg, Glamorganshire. He entered the old 60th Rifles, now
the King's Royal Rifle Corjjs, in 1859, and led the plea.sant and not unprofitable life of a
"regimental duty-wallah" in that fine corps until after he had attained his captaincy in 1871.
In 1873 he was appointed A.D.C. to the General Officer Commanding at the Cape of Good
Hope, and two years later found him mployed in the Expedition to Griqualand West, his
first experience of active service. In 1878 Captain Grenfell again went cimpaigning, and
served with marked distinction in the Kaffir, Zulu, and Transvaal campaign which made
up the South African War of 1878-9-81. He was present at Ulundi, was repeatedly
mentioned in Despatches, and received brevet promotion, first to Major and then to Lieu-
tenant-Colonel.

In the Egyptian E.xpedition of 1S82 Colonel Grenfell served as Assistant Adjuiant-
General on the Head Quarters Staff, and was present at the battle of Tel-el- Kebir. This
campaign brought him the coveted honour of an A.D.C'ship to the Queen, and in 1884-5
he was naturally again selected for an important position on the staff of the Nile Expedition.
with temporary rank as Brigadier-General.

But it was in the Soudan in 1885-6-8-9 that "The Swansea Boy" attained speci;'
distinction — as an administrator, organizer, and fighting leader. He had been appointed in
1883 to special employment with the Egyptian Army, and in 1885 he was given a command
in the Frontier I'"orce with local rank as Major-General. He commanded a dl/ision at the
action of Giniss, and in 1886 was made Sirv'ar o( the Egyptian Army. In that capacity he
initiated the reformation of the "Gippy" whicii was afterwards so splendidly carried to its
logical conclusion by Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. In 1888 Sir Francis Grenfell, as he was
now, was in command at Gemaizah and again in the following year at Toski.

General Grenfell's connection with the Egyptian Army as Sirdar terminated in 1S92,
and, on his return home, employment was found for him at Army Head Quarters, first as
Deputy Adjutant-General for Militia and Yeomanry, and subsequently in the dual capacity of
Inspector-Greneral both of Auxiliary Forces and Recruiting. As a Head Quarters Olificer
General Grenfell was greatly liked, and worked hard, but it is doubtful whether he ever
really appreciated this sort of employment.

In 1897 he went once more to Egypt, this time as Major-General Commanding the
British Forces, and very shortly he was in the thick of the prep;irations for the coming
advance on Khartoum. Although he himself had strong claims to be appointed the leader
of the Expedition, he acted throughout as Lord Kitchener's staunch helper, and it was
largely owing to his generous self-effacement and untiring efforts that there was a complete
absence of anything like friction or other trouble at the base of operations. It was therefore
extremely fitting that, at the close of the campaign. Sir Francis Grenfell should be bracketed
with Lord Kitchener as the recipient of one of the highest distinctions attainable in our
Service, the Grand Cross of the Bath.

Yet another honour awaited this fine soldier. On January ist, 1899, he became
Governor of Malta, a post to which only officers of exceptional services are appointed, and
the tenure of which may, at any moment, necessitate the display of just those cjualities of
firmness and tact, coupled with real sagacity, that have habitually characterised Sir Francis
Grenfell's honourable caree..

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Lieut.-Gknerai. Sir H. C. CHERMSIDE.

Til.', ("niiiin mdir .if till' i-(ili Hii-.uli- in .Soiilli WYhw li.is .iln .uK li.vd a <,iiiit wliidi
m.'in- imirc hii^hly i)l;ui'(l, and still iiiiiri' ilisiiiv.;ui^liiil, men ili.in h>'. nut ini|>n)l.,ili]y
rcj, inl with s')iiu- ilri^ici' .i|" invy. ll<' li.is str\(-il with ilisiim linn in tin- lii-M, UMifd
ami othcrwiM', he has Ipcni a Mliii,ii\ \itarhc in one nl' the ini.st itUrn-stini; capiial-.
ill the word, he has iitrd as Her Majcst) s Spi-ii.il ' I'oniinissi.iniT in i-i»nni"itic>ti witli
c>itr.j)liiatinns in wliith all ('.r<Mttr iMirnix' was intrn sled, In- has had rharyr nl a hiiim-
nistrici. aiil now he is If.idin;; a l)rii^.i(li- in South Alriia. As \m- is not y< t iitt\, and
already wc.irs thr llr.i'ul Cross ot .St. Michael iiui St. (it'orv;e, lii'sidcs iIk
surelv lie ion-.idered "in the riinnin.; " lor the lii'^hest honours the .Serviie

CI?., iie may
holds in store

Sir lierliert ( hirmsiile was Ixxn in I."-5<1, was edmated at l-'.ton, iiid <iiterrd the
Royal I'lnj,dneers in iS^d. He w.is only hair-w.iy to his ('aptaint \ wlu'ii he was sent on
.special duty to Turkex, and. on the ( utiVeak o| the kusso-'I'urkisli W.ir. tin* Sa|i|M'r sul.altern
ol' seven years' se-\ii<' w.is (diosen io re|)ri'sent his country as Military .\ttacinL SiihseipiiMitly
h' was <inplo\ed on the I'urkisli Houndary ( oinniission. iSjS-i). uid Ironi 1>>7<J to iH.S;
iliil excellent and uiiosient itiius work .is a Vici- ( cmsul in An.itoii.i. Metween iS:o and 1SS7
he was at work in I'-i^vpt, tirst as A..V. .ind (>.M.(i. o| the Inteliiyenrv I (eparlinent in Lord
Wolseley's 1". \peilition. .did .ilierw.irils as ,ui otticer ol the Ei^ypti.iii .\rnn. in the Litter
..ipacity iv !-er\ed at Su.ikin, and hecuiie ( loNcrnor I n-ner.il o| tln' Ked .Sea Littoral, lie
also ser\ed in the Soudan in i.'s.S; w'tli the i'ront'ir i'ifl.l l-om-, and was in couyn.iml at
the action of .Sarras.

In iSS.S Colonel Ch' rinside
ord .Salishurv's hap|)\ allusion

was si-ni to
w.itch do^s " in
liecaine .Nlilitar>

as he \s,is then

to the •■ iMi'' ir\
n ini'inlxTcd in this tunnectionl. and the ne,\t yir hi
opie, an ap|iointnient wiiich. \l is ne<Mlless to s.iy. requires vcy
Cherinside liljed it so well th.ii he n'Miain'-.! i.ntil iS<)(). and ih -n only
iisetiil Work as British .Miiit.ir;. Connnissioner in Crete. 'I'he Ioul;
t>i//')o/^/ii' needs no recipitnl.ition hen*, li is sul'licient lor the pur|xise>,
if these tiresome complications did not do much else, they hruiii^lu ini

Kurdistan a*i a Consul
.\sia Minor will he

\tt ulu' .It < "onst.uuiii
caielul lillinj^. I'cil.

li'lt i'l do still more
story of the ('ri'i.in
of this sketch that.

1 still stronger reliel

the fine ipialities of coolness and sa;;acily which characterised the Hritish Military
Commissioner, ami made him e.\act!y the rii^lit man for a \ery difficult and th.mkless t-isk.
Ilie L'orei;4n Office never fails to reward ijooj ser\ ice. and it was as .1 (l.C.M.C. tliat Sir
llirhert Chermsiiie returned to stri(i'y military duty in 1X99. Nor did the military autlioritii-s
lor,^r,t how well the e\-.\Iilitary Attache h.id iiijlield the honour of the Mritisli Army in
<,'rete. They ;^Mve him the v.icant comm.iiid ol th<- Currat(h District, and. when it liecaine
nece.ssary to sui>]jlemeiu the .\rmy Corps in Souti. .Afric.i hy a s'l'. <^'tli, anil 7th, Division,
Sir Herbert was posti-d to a brigade, and so ('liters under hrilliant auspices on his fifth
c, Mipaitin.

V--

COLONEL PLUMER.

AT a v(!ry rarly ■ita^^c in th<' South 'African inil)r();,'lio, some considcraMc titnc licfore
war was dcc-Linil as a niattiT of fact it was in July, 1899 tin: ( iovcrnment tooiv
the im|)urtant and very sciisihie :.tci) of yndinj; out to thi' Ca()c a few S|H'iiai
Servicr Officers with peculiar (|ualilicati(»ns and evr;rience sucli as rendcrred their
services at this juncture of extraordinary value. One of these was Colonel Haden-l'owell of
Mafekin^ r«!nown, anoliicr, " H-l''s" old coii)rade in arms, IMunier, a regimental Major in the
York and Lancaster, l)iit a hrevet l,i<'utenant-Colonel hy reason of splendid service in the
Matalielt! Kisini,' of |S()6. Since the he^innin;,' of thi; war we have liearii much of b<Jth of
these line ottlcers, ,inil not far short of " H-I's " spirited defence of " Cialiant l-ittle Mafekinj.; "
must he reckoned I'luiner's re[)eateil and strenuous efforts, in the teeth of ol)stacles which
havt' heen im|)erfectly realised at honn', to Itrini,' relief to the sorely-pressed i^'arrisoii.

HerlK.Tt Charles Onslew Plumer is still in tlv prime of life, h.ivinj,' heen born in 1857,
and j,'a/etted to the old 65th I'^oot, now the 1st Ilaltalion V'ork and F.anciister, in 1876.
I'Voin 1S79 to i,SS6, an unusually loni^ period, he w.is Adjutant of his battalion, and in that
capacity accompanied it to the Soudan in 18S4 in the expedition under Sir (ierald Clraham.
C.iptain I'lumer w.is ',)resent at thi: battles of l{| Teb and Tam.ii, and was mentioned in
1 )es|)atches. In iSS? he |),issed throuj,di the Staff Collei,fe. and from 1890 to 1893 was
I )eputyAssist.int Adjut.uil-( leneral in Jersey, in 1896 he serveil in the operations in South
.Afric.i under Sir l-'rederiik Carrin^ton, when he or^'ani/ed and comm.uuled a corps of Mounted
Kitles, subsequently obtaining; .mother mention in I )esp,itches and a brevet Lieutenant-Colonelcy.
Colonel I'lumer's exi)erieiKes in this arduous c.unpaij^n are described in a very interesting
manner in his book " With an Irrej,ful,ir Corps in Matabeleland."

On his return to Ivij^daiul. Colonel I'Knner w.is appointed a l)e|).ity- Assistant Adjutant-
Cicneral anil Instructor at .Aldershot, from whiih lie was called away to South Africa last year.
On arrival at the Cajie he ,it once went up coimtry to Khoilesia, where he set alxiut raisinj^
■uul or;;;mi7in!,' the Khodesian Rei^iment of which he has since been in command. There is
little doubt th.il if he had not kept watch and w.ird at Tiili tluring the earlier stajjes of the
campaij»n there mi^jht have lieen a daufrerous incursion of the enemy into Rhodesia, and,
even as it was, a liier comm.uulo appeareil on the banks of the Crocodile River and e.xchanjjed
shots with Plumer';, patrols. .Subse(|uently I'lumer moved his camp to (ialx^-rones which led
to his comin^j in still closer touch with the Boers, and on several occasions he was sharply
enjjageil. Latterly he made more than one jjallant attempt to get through to Mafeking, but
was sadly handicappiHl at first by drought anil, Liter on, by the superior strength of the Boer
cordon.

Colonel Plumer is the very man to uphold the honour of the Army, and to conserve
the interests of the I"m[)ire in a tight corner like this. Level-headed, full of pluck and " go,"
self-reliant, resourceful, and everlastingly alert, he is, moreover, an ideal leader of Mounted
Infantry, that comparatively new power in war of which we are only now beginning to learn
the true significance.

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COLONEL KEKEWICH.

I\ the record of the War In S.-iith Africa tlu> Defence of Kimlx'rley will always loom
lari,^', and there are several points alxiut thi^ achievement which entitle it to a ilistinct
I>!.ice in tile military annals of the Mritish Ivnipire. Without seeivinj,' for a moment to
depreciate individual heroism and privaU- enterprise, the nature of the investment was
such that, unless the otV.cer in military authority in Kiinberley had Ix-en a man of great parts
anti real capacity, the Diamond City mi^dit have fiunil it im|)ossible to hold oiu until relief
came in the shape of ]-"rencl.s far-ran:,,'ing s(]uadrons. It wanti'd, for instance, a strong man
in such 'ircumstances to impose the necessary resiriaiims upun the lood supply, and great
skill and manau inent were neeileil to conili.it tin enrnn's immense su|x'riority in guns. In
a word, the Tefenct; of Kimberlty was an important military feat, and the ai:thorities at home
did well, at tl e conclusion of the siege, tt) mark their appreciation of the gallant and resourceful
officer on whom the command of the garrison had devohcd. hy securing his prompt |>romotion
t(j a brev(;t Colonelcy, to which very pos-^ibly. some further Imnour may U- added later on.

Colonel Robert Cjeorge Kekewich was born in 1S54 and. twenty years later, was gazetted
through the .Militia into the old 102nd Foot, now the ist Royal Dublin h'usiliers, from which
he was transferred in a fortnight to the Huffs. He w,is fortunati; in seeing service almost
immediatel\- in the I'enik M\|)ei!ition of 1S7S 6, of which -.uih a vivid ri|)resentation was
given in the 1S09 Tnurnament. lie Mrvcii for .1 tinn; .is Ailjutant ol his bait.dion, and, as
a Captain, was in iSS; appointed I)e|)Ut\ -.\ssistaiU .Adjutant ,uid Quarter .Master (ieneral in the
Nile i'l.xpedition for the Relief of (iordon. Captain Kekewich s(> distinguished himself in this
operation th.it he was given a brev<'t Majority, anil ,1 staff ap|)ointment in I'-gyiH as Hrigailc-
Major. In that capacity he Kgain served with distimtiim in the Soudan in 1888, and was
j)resent in the action of (i,im,ii/;;'.h.

Although not .1 .St.iff ( '<)lleg(- m.m. Major Kekewich was now, by virtue of excellent
service on the st.iff in the field, reckoned among the ciiosen few held to be (|ualifie<l on that
account for staff appointments in peace time. AccordingK', having left I'-gyiH and attained
j)romotion to .1 subst.inli.il majority in tin- Rov.il liuiiskilling I'lisiliers, he servetl for six years,
from 1891 to 1897, on the- personal staff of the M.idras comm.ind. In 1H97 he re-joineil lh<;
Royal Inniskilling I-'usiliers a: second in comm.uid, .md, in June, 1S9S, was transferred on
promotion '.o the command of thv: ist Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

When the War in .South .Africa broke out. the Lo\al Worth Lancashires were .dready
in Cape Colony, and were promptly sent up under Colonel K<'kewich to the Western Border.
One wing of the regiment went to l)e .Aar and subsei)',ieii;ly took part in Methuen's Uittles,
while the other was sent to Kiinberley, of which Colonel Kekewich was appointed Militiry
Commanilant. How well he did his work we have seen, but it will probably only be known
to a few how onerous antl exhausti'^,;- that work was. not te' mention a certain amount of
friction which is supposed to have occurred between the Milit.iry Commandant of Kimb<"rley
and a certain [)r<jminent civ'ilian member of the garrison.

M '■

Lieut-General the Hon. N. G. LYTTELTON

ihr Hon.

WHHN it Wiis annmiiicecl that an Army Corps was to hr sent to South Africa,
and tliat, whfrc\ir possible, rej^inients were to l)e brigaded on tlie good old
system of grouping Guarils, I'usiliers, anil so forth together, a Brigade of
Killi's JM-came ,i foregone conclusion. Hxcryone, too, with the slightest
such things, was satisfied and pleaseil that this Brigade, when formed, should
:harge of such an e,\cellent sjiecimen of the Rifleman as Major-Ciencral
(i. I.yttelton. Judged hy actual results, too, the .selection has been more
since in all the heavy fighting that took place along the liigela until
l.adysmith was relievi-il there was no brigade more constaiul)' and niori lu;a\il\ engageil
than l-vtti'lton's. In the history of the w.u- there are lew finer episodes th.in the de\oteil
attempt of this brig.tde to bring relief to the force at bay on Spion Kop, and throughout
this an.xious time Ixith it and its commander kejit their heads and went on fighting in a
manner worthv of the Ix-st traditions of the " K.i$." anil the old Si.xtieth.

than justified,

M.ijor-(ieneral I'he Hon. Neville (lerald I.yttelton, (".B., is the third son of the
fourth Baron Lyttelton, and w.is Ijorn in October, 1845. He was educated at I{ton. and
entcR'd the Rilie Brigade as an Mnsign in 1S05. l-Voin 1S69 to 1873 he .served as
Aide-ile-(,"amp to Lord S|)encer during die latter's term as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
and four years later s;iw service in the Jowaki Lxpedition t)f 1S77. Alter a short spell at
the War Office as Private .Secretary to the .Secretary of State, he accompanied the
Hgyptian H.xpedition of i88i as A.D.C. to the Chief of the Staff, and was present at
the battle of 'l"el-el-Kebir. For his services in this campaign he received a bre\et
lieutenant-colonelcv.

From 1883 to 1885
Governor of (iibraltar, and
of Lord Reay, (iovernor of
and comm.uuled the jnd Battalion Rillc
command to go to the War Office
transferred to the Military Secretary's
with the late Major-Cieneral Waucho|M',
the final ailvance on Khartoum. The

Colonel Lyttelton was Military .Secretisry to Sir John Adye,

from 1885 to 1890 he acted in a similar capacity on the Staff

Bombay. In 1892 he became a substantive lieutenant-colonel.

Brigade at Dublin until 1894. He relinquished his

.IS Assistant Adjutant-General, being subsequently

Department in 1898. In the latter year he was,

selected for the command of a British brigade in

manner in which he carrietl out this duty was

recognised by s|H'cial promotion to the rank of NLijor-General, and in 1899, the command
of an Infantry brigaile at Aldershol falling vacant, he obtained that coveted bilN't, thereby
rendering his selection for South Africa doubly certain. At tht' close of the war
General L\ itelton will presumably leturn to a post for which, apart from his ability,
.smartness, and varied regimental .■xp(;rience, he will have further tiualified by the tenure
of two ie.iportant brigade comnvads on active service.

[Since the aljove was written, (.ieneral Lyttelton has been appointed to the command of
the 4th Division, which forms part of the Field Forre in Natal. J

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GENERAL BABINGTON.

PERHAPS there is mi feature of the Secomi Boer War whicli lias more persistently
forced itself uiwn the notice of stuilents than the scope affonieil by the operations
for the employment of every sort of mounted troops. The extraordinary mobility
of the enemy, coupled with their sk^U in selectinij positions from which it has been
impossible to eject them without either frii^hiful loss or l.y recourse to swift lurninij movements, has
necessitated quite unusual efforts on our part to keep large Ixxlies of cavalry and mounted
infantry constantly in the field. In doinjj so the military authorities have b<en oblij^jed to
exercise the greatest possible care in the selection of leaders, since, splendidly efficient as our
cavalry is, not every cavalry officer unditrstands the handling of large Ixnlies of mounted men,
and very few cavalrymen above the nink of major have any but a su[)erficial acquaintance
with oouth African conditions.

Major-General j. M. Babington, Commanding the ist Cavalry Brigade in South Africa,
meets these and several kindred requirements. He has not only commanded a very smart cavalry
regiment but has been en^ployed on the Staff in ^iidia as an Assistant Adjutant-General. He
has served on the Personal Staff of one of the leading soldiers of the day, and, finally, he has
been through a campaign in South Africa itself. It is not surprising therefore that, on the
outbreak of the war, he should have been selected as one of General French's Brigadiers.

General James Melville Babington was born in 1854, and entered the i6th-the Scarlet-
I.,ancers in 1873. From 1877 to 1S80 he was Adjutant of the regiment, and in 1884 he
accompanied Sir Charles Warren's Bechuanaland F..x|)edition, for his services in which he was
" honoisrably mentioned." From Januar)', 1889, to July, 1890, Captain Babington was A.D.C.
to Sir Evelyn Wood when the latt(!r was commanding at .Aldershot, in itself both a liberal
military education and a marked compliment to the Lancer's ability, for Sir Evelyn never had
any but good men round him. Returning as a Major to regimental duty, Babington succ<!cded
to the command of the i6th Lancers in 1892, and held it for four years, subsequently going
to the Punjab Command as Assistant Adjutant-General. This appointment he relinquished
in 1899 to become a Cavalry Brigadier in South Africa.

General Babington has not been largely in evidence since the campaign was begun, but
he has done some exceedingly u.seful wo,k on the Lin(;s of Communication, and in Ianuar\-
last carried out a highly important reconnaissance from Belmont into the Orange Free State.
Indeed he was the first British General to enter the Free State at the head of a hostile force,
and it is probable that the information he collecK-d was of singular value to Lord Roberts in
connection with the earlier stages of the latters magnificent march to Bloenifontein.

THE LATE SIR WILLIAM LOCKHART.

THE death of this ereat Indian soldier during the preparation of this series has been
a serious blow to tne whole British Army. At no time would his loss have been
other than most severely felt, but, coming at a time when the general outlook is far
from promising, and when no more trusted Commandet -in-Chief for India could
possibly be found than this splendid type of gallant and sagacious Frontier leader, his death
at the comparatively early age of 59, must certainly be classed as a national, or, more
correctly, as an Imperial misfortune.

Some indication of the brilliance of Lockhart's career may be gathered from the bare
statement that he participated in eleven campaigns, and in five of these was in chief command.
But this does not do justice to the wonderful ability and personal charm of the man which
rendered him at all times not only easily successful in everything he undertook but popular
to the verge of real affection with everyone with whom he came in contact. By the
fighting classes of India he was simply adored, and his fine presence and gallant bearing
endeared him scarcely less to the British soF' <r. As an explorer he carried out some
remarkable journeys, and many important contributions to official military literature came from
his ready pen. But his heart was in his work as a fighting man, and he has left behind
him a grand record of daring achieviment and skilful leadership.

A descendant of the " Lockharts of Lee," Sir William was born in 1841, and entered
the Indian Army at the ^e of 17, just in time the see the "tail-end" of the Mutiny
operations. In 1864-66 he served with the 14th Bengal Cavalry in the Bhutan Expedition, and
in 1867-68 as A.D.C. to General Merewether in the Abyssinian campaign. After a spell of
staff service in the Black Mountain Expedition, Lockhart, in 1876, took l.-'ave to the Dutch
settlement in Acheen. It proved a " busman's holiday," for Lockhart could not resist the
temptation of taking part in the Dutch War against the natives, and behaved with such
conspicuous gallantry at the storming of Lambada that he was mentioned in the Dntch
Despatches and was ^iven the war medal, He returned to India very much pulled down
by fever, and was still in siafT employment when the Afghan War broke out, and he was
selected to go to the front firr>tas Road Commandant in the Khaibar, and afterwards as A.Q.M.G.
to Lord Roberts during the operations around Kabul. For his services in this campaign he
received the C.B.

Returning to Simla, Lockhart for two or three years had charge of the newly-formed
Intelligence Branch which he left to carry out an important mission to Chitral. His next
service was in Burma where he commanded a brigade. After a spell at home as Assistant
Military Secretary for Indian Affairs in Pall Mall, Lockhart returned to India in command
of the Punjab Frontier Force. He commanded both the Miranzai Expeditions in 1891, and
in 1892 the Isazai Field Force. In 1895, on the re-organisation of the Indian Army, he
was given the Punjab Command, and shortly afterwards won a K. C.S.I, by his successful
conduct of the Expedition to:Waziristan.

In 1897 the ijreat Frontier Risings broke out, and when finally the Afridis joined the
revolt and closed the Khaibar Pass, Lockhart was entrusted with the difficult lask of bringing
them to their senses. This he did with his accustomed thoroughness, and at the head of
over 30,000 men, whom he led into the very heart of the Afridi highland-,, completely
crushing all opposition. Only those to whom che difficulties of movement aad transport in
such a country, not to speak of the warlike qualities of the enemy, can have any conception
of the real merit of this notable performance.

In December, 1898, Lockhart succeeded to the Indian Commander-in-Chiefship, but shortly
afterwards fell into ill-health, doubtless accentuated by the strain imposed upon him during
the Frontier Risings. At the beginning of the present year he appeared to be making a
wonderful recovery, and about the middle of March the doctors hoped that it wouid be
possible to send him home. His passage was arranged, but at the last moment he suflereil
a relapse, and on March 18 he passed away, to the deep regret of numbers of old comraJes
who had looked forward to seeing him dignify for the full term the lofty office to which by
sheer merit he had so brilliantly and bravely risen.

iiii. Lai I CiiMKAi, SIR W . S. A. !.()( KHAKI, (;.( .li., K.C.S.I.,

C'liMM NNhl I IS I IIII I IN In MA.

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LIEUT.-GEN. SIR FREDERICK CARRINGTON.

lEUT.-GEXKRAL SIR I RKDHKICK CARRINGTON L ows South Africa as

has s[ieni the greater
f to the fullest extent of
.*• an object, for he w«i
r ier the Dutch would
;nc( r' is quite one to

L perhaps no other officer in Her Majesty's Service I ■"% it
part of his service ih ;•, and, more than that, has avii h'
his opportunities of travel. He has hunted, shot ani -ih.
one of those who were wise enough to foresee years ajjo that 'li
give us trouble. So high does his name stand among the :

conjure by, as the saying goes, for they recognize thai what General (. ■ ■ <jton does not
know about them is not worth knowing. This is the man to whom has been eninsted the duty
of guarding the Rhodesian borders with a force of Colonials and Imperial Yeomanry in the present
crisis in South Africa. The duty could scarcely have heen placed in more competent hands.

Lieut. -General Sir Frederick Carrington was born .August 23rd, 1844. On May 4th,
1864. he joined the 24th Regiment, now the South Wales Borderers, as Ensign. The first ten
years of his service were uneventful ; but in 1875 his chance came. The ist Battalion of the " old
24th " had just been moved to the Ca[)e from Gibraltar. Carrington was a subaltern ; somebody
was wanted to organize and command a corps of local mounted men for service in the Diamond
Fields, where difificulties had arisen. He volunteered ; his services were accepted. It was there
that he laid the foundation of his reputation. Two years later found him at the head of
" Carrington's Horse" on the occasion of the annexation of the Transvaal. In the Kaffir War of
1877, in the Transkei, he for the third time raised a mounted corps — the Frontier I.i'jht Horse
— and was highly complimented. In the operations against the native chief Sekukuni, in
1878-79, he commanded the Transvaal Volunteers, and so high stood his good name, that to him
was entrusted the charge of the idvanced guard and left attack on the occasion of the capture
of the stronghold. Advantage was now taken of the opportunity for recognising in a substantial
manner the value of this tried leader. He was given the brevet of Major and Lieutenant-
Colonel, and made a C.M.G., and at the s;ime lime chosen to command the whole of the local
forces in the Cape Colony. This brought him in due course fresh field ex|x:ricnce, ait from
November, 1880, to March, 1881, he comm.inded the Cape Mounted Riflemen, the corps he had
been instrumental in raising against the Basutos when that ' ^rlike p«'ople were endeavouring;
to "make it hot" for the Bottrs. In these o|x'rations he wii severely wounded, but with the
pluck of a true soldier he would not yield his command, and his " gallantry, organising ability
and wonderful resourcefulness" were brought prominently to ihe notice of the Colonial Office.

When next he took the field it was with Sir Charles Warren's Expetlition to Uechuanaland
in 1884 85, this time ;is Commandant of ih(; 2nd Mounted Rifles. Sir Charles Warren formed
the highest opinion of his abilities as a leader, and he placed on record his estimate of his worth.
In the troubles in Zululand in 1888 Colonel Carrington, as he had become, w;is at the head of
the Native Levies, who, it was said at the time, would have followed him "even to destruction,
without a murnuir," such was Un-ir belief in him. In May, 1894, he was promoted a Major-
General, and a year later was appointed to the command of the Infantry Brigade at Gibraltar.
The native difficulty in Rhodesia called him back to South .Africa in April, 1896, when he was
entrusted with the direction of military operations, with what success has been shown conclusively
during the last nine months. He took over command of the troops in the Belfast District in
March, 1899, and it was whilst exercising the duties of that important charge that he was
ordered to proceed yet again to South Africa on his present mission.

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LIEUT.-GENERAL T. KELLY-KENNY, C.B.

HE old "2nd Queen's," known now as the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment,
are naturally proud of Lieut. -General Kelly-Kenny, a man who has done much
since the intrcxluction of the territorial system to keep alive the history of " Kirke's
lambs" throughout the army.

General Kelly-Kenny is an Irishman, as his name implies. He comes of a good fighting
and sporting stock. A soldier by instinct, he owes his progress in his r>-'>fession to merit
iilone. Born February 27th, 1840, he was gazetted to the ind ' ,, '■- as Ensign,
February and, 1858. He had not been two years a subaltern when he > -i"? !K ted for Staff
duties j»s Aide-de-Camp to the General Officer Commanding in South ' Hen. t he was not
destined to remain long at the Cape, for the war having broken out i ^ortl. lina in i860
he proceeded there in time to secure an appointment as Orderly Ofipr. • i^, Uiigadier Jephson,
who took the ist Battalion of the Queen's from the Cape to join . 2xj ditionary F'orce.
He did duty as such in the_action of Sinho, when he was mentioned', in >. ,)atjhes, and at the

of Tar . . _ . -

taking

fangku and the Taku Forts. He thus won his first wa' medai with clasp.

The "Queen's" were moved to England after the war, ana .i tenant Kelly-Kenny
returned with them. Obtaining his company in July, 1866, lie proceeded with the
1st Battalion to India in 1867, and having volunteered for service in the Abyssinian
Expedition immediately after his arrival, was appointed to the command of a Division of the
Transport Train, being at the close of operations brought to notice in despatches on account
of his "zeal, energy and ability." Later, he determined to enter the Staff College, where he
studied during 1874-75. He had, meanwhile, become a Major in his regiment, and on
Julv ist, 1881, was promoted to the rank of Lieut. -Colonel. On September 29th, 1882, an
ambition of his life was realised when he found himself appointed to the command of the
1st Battalion of the Queen's, at the head of which he rode at Portland, Tralee and Cork
until September 29th, 1886, when he was placed on half-pay.

His term of inactivity was not, however, to be of long duration, as a year afterwards
he was posted to the York District as Assistant Adjutant-vjeneral. This position he held
for the ujII five years. In August, 1893, he joined the Staff at the Horse Guards as Assistant
Adjutant-General, and in Decemlx'r of that year was transferred to Aldershot, where he acted
as the Duke of Connaught's Chief Staff Officer until March, 1896. He was then appointed to
a Brigade Command at that station, with the rank of Major-General. His substantive rank
came to him in March, 1897, and in the July following he was recalled to Army Headquarters
to fill the dual office of Inspector-General of .Auxiliary Forces and Recruiting. On the
de|)arture of Sir Redvers Buller for South Africa last October, General Kelly- Konny was
chosen to succeed him in command of the Aldershot District, with the rank of Lieut. -General.
On December 4th he left for Cape Town as Lieut. -General Commanding the 6th Division,
with which he has since been associated to the great advantage of all ranks serving under
him, who as an officer doing duty with the Division wrote recently, "regard him alike with
aff';;:t;on and respect, and would follow him anywhere, knowing well that under his able
leadershin they would be taken straight to victory, whatever the odds were against them."

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MAJOR-GEN. J. F. BROCKLEIIURST, M.V.O.

II' llsol to be s.li.l ill till' llulisrll.ikl I .iv.ilry tll.lt tlliy wrr h.liulsnmr, hilt lls.li'SS. Tim
|)ul)lit: hail lifcii so luiiistiiiiicil K) si'i-iri); the Cuir.issirr tinujicrs takiiii,' part in ('(iiiri
fiinctinns ..niv, tliat llitv hail ronv tn lon^ct the spl.-iKlitl v;ailantry of tlif HoiisrhoM
Hrij,Mil<' i»n the lirKI oV Watrrloo, :iiiil pri'vioiisly ill iIk' I'miiisiiia, wiuTc tlicy won tin-
admiiaiioii ul' no less an aiitlmrity iliaii tiic "Iron Du'kr ' liims.'U", .m<! rftMrncil to I'.n^jland
to 111' honoiiriil 1)V tliiir Irliow lountryinrn ami rcifivc sp<i iai marks of Koyai favour, which
all aliowcil tlicy liail riilily <lrs«TV<il. ' lor soni.tiiin^ likr seventy yiar. the " liouschoKlrrs "
Wfic t^ivfii no cliaiicc of (listiii^iiisinn'^ llinnsi Krs. \'arioiis nulciMnits wiTr madr to sci un-
for ihi'm a plaic in iht! i'icM Army. Imt, as littlf war alter littlf war r.inir, they \urc tloomcd
to di'ijipointnvnt, so tiny liad to lie.ir thrir rhaj'rin as In-st ihiy nuiid, iriishin/ as it was
to tliiin to feci thai ihi' iault was not theirs that they were eonsidered ornamental soldiers.
In iSSj the i'.yvpiian W'.ir furnished an op|Hirtuiiity for the employment of a eonsidiTable
force of cavalry. I hen it was th.it .i decision was come to to employ a composite rcj^jiment,
m.ide up of a siiuadroii e.ii ii from the 1st and Jiid life (iuanls and Koy.d Ijorse (iuards.
(ireat w.i-i the nioiciii.,' ,il Knii^htsl-ridi;!', Kej^ent s I'.irk, .mil W imisor when the oflii i.il decision
was mule known. .\inoii.; the lirst otiicers of the llri,;.iile to volunteer for servio- was the
suhject of this sketcii.

MajorCleneral John I'ielden linx klehurt:t is a l\pic.il Household t'a\,ilr\ ni.m of wh.it
W(! may call the "new school," iii.ismuch .is he has heeii foremost in upholdin.4 the <ri-ilitof
the Mriii.ide in .1 fi^hiiii!,' sense. Horn M.iy i,;th, iS^j. .md h.iiiiiin from l.aru.ishire, where
his lainiiy is well known .md resjiei ted. he received his first (oinmission in th<- Koy.il Morse
(lU.irds Pecemlier Jiid, 1S74. from the Koy.il l.ani'.ishire Miliii.i. with wliiih he h.id Ix'en
two years associ.ited. Th- lljiies were .it tll.lt lime lomm.mded 1)\ (olonel |)imi.in Maillie,
and to him youii;^ ilrocklehurst in due course presented himself .it Kni;.^htsl>riil^i; llarr.icks.
The first few years of his military c.ireer were uneventful. He w.is promoted to his trtM)p
on May iSih, 1881 ; from that timi' to the present he lias iM-en a military persona>;(r of
some repute. In Auyust, i.S.S;, he was fortiin.ite eninij.;h to Ik- anion).; the earliest offk«!rs
to Ijc selecteil to accompany ("oloiiil Milnellome. his own immediate "Chief," to I'^^jvpt
in comm.iiid of a troop of the composite re'^imeiit. He served ihroui^lnuit ihi- c.iinpai^n
mulei l.ord U'oJseley, including the H.itlle of Tcl-ci-Keliir. receiving the w.ir ined.d with
clasp, .111(1 th(.' Khedive's bron/e st.ir.

Returniii),' to |-;n;.;l.ind he reverted to his ret,'iinent, but, keen soldier as he is, he was
not alto;fethtT ha|>py in the r, inline of barrack life between Windsor and London. Thus,
when the idea of the Camel Corps was first bro.iched for service in the Nile l-!x|K-dition
of 18S4-85, he dill his Im'sI to jjet himself selected. This, however, could not Ix- arranged,
but a place was nevertheless found for him on the lli'a(l(|uarttrs .Stall, and he w.is ordered
to embark as Hepuiy .\ssisl.iiit-Adjutaiit and On. irter- Master ( iener.il for Kemounts a position
of no little res(X)nsibility, but one In- was eminently (pLililied to fill, with his wonderful
jiiilL;meiit on all m.itters rel.iting to the (|ualities, diseases and care of a horse. He .ii'(|uitted
himself so well that he was accorded a most llatterin^ mention in despatches, whii h was
followeil by his promotion to a llrevet Maiority. Then came more years of re;^iinental duty.
On January 1 8th, 1895, he succeeded the kite Colonel Oliver .Moiita;,;u in command of the
Blues, and obtained the bre\i;t rank of Colonel, January 18th, 1899. He had meanwhile
been matle a member of the Royal N'ictori.m Ordt;r on the occasion of the jubilee of 1897,
and on June i6ih, 1S99, was a|)pointed .in Ivquerry to the fjuei'ii, which post he still holds.
Directly there was a talk of war in South Africa, he went strai).;lit to his old friend Sir
Kedvers lluller and desired that his name mijjht l«' notttd for employment. The lesult was
that he was offered and accepted the command of a Hrij^ade of Cavalry, with tin- rank of
Major-General, bein;^ the younj.jesi (ieneral Officer at the front on his arrixal. Landing in
advance of Heail(|u,irters. he accom|)anieil I, ieutenant-C ieneral I'rench to l.adysmiih, took

IKirt in the lii^luintr at Klandslaaf,'te, when he came much under notice, and was afterwards
eft to command the Cavalry force in the low. throujfhout the siege, which he did in a
manner to call from Sir ( "leorge White ;i llatteriny acknowledj^ment.

LIEUT.-COLONEL D. McT. LUMSDEN.

Till''. II, line i)f I.iimsdi'ii staiuls hiyh in India. /\iii! di'scrvi'div ^o, for in wli.itcvcr
cajiatity a l.iini'^dcn has lu-cn Iricd he has in\.irial)ly hroiii^lit credit uri his ii.itive
(,'(iuniy n( .MM'rdei'n. I'licrc have hccn many l.iunsdcns in the ixilitical ami military
service, and as the history of British Indi.i shows, tiiey h,iv<! .ill ot them proved to he
Kmpin: liiiilders of the liesi kii\il. l,i(iit.-Ct>lonel Dii^'aUl Mac'l'avish l.iimstlen iietter known
now iiH " i.nmsden of l.umsden's Morse " is no e.Mcption to the rule, lie is nr)t a soldier in the
strict sensi', lor he \v,is not oriiiin.dly trained for the profession of arms. He went to India years
.tyo to devote his eni rj^ies to the ilev<lopment of the tea iniliistry, then in its infancy. I'his he
has done with tin- |,'re,itist success, .Siutlin^,' in .Assam, his splendid <|ualiiies soon asse'-'".! 'i n-
selves. I le was one of those who rcco;,'nised the importance of the X'olunteer movement, and
therefore re.idily e-,poused the <-.uis<; in tlv district in which his lot w,is thrown. A Corps of
.Mounted Kifles existetl, of which the Lite Sir William Lockh.irt onci' saiil that no hetter mounted
troops could Ih; found in the world for thi- ofXTations of a hill campaij^'n, as " eve-ry officer and
man w.is .t horn leader, and once mounted niade his horse part of himself.'" This L'orps I.umsden
joined and, as the ,\ssanj i.ij^ht Horse, served in lor years .uul assisteil in hringing to the hij;lu;st
standard of efficiency.

When the war l)rf)ke out in South Africa, Colonel I.umsden was in lui^danil. Me applied to
thi' W.ir ( )|fice for permission to pr(Ke,,| to India to raise a Corps of Horse. But Lord Koberts
had not come on to the scene at th.ii early stai;e, and cavair) was ,m arm more or less dis-
credited. Much disappointed, the ),'all,int LunisdiMi wtmded hi . w.iy to .Australia, anil it was thi're
that he he.ird of Lord Kolx-rts' appointment. Hi- felt that his chance had come, and instantly
prepared to return to C.dcutta, where he arrived to tind orders awaitin;,' him to raise the Corps
which had Ih'cu previously declined.

.A|)plicationH ix)ureil in. but the esial)lish;ii"nt was fixed at 250 sjdjres only. This resulted,
of co'irse, in many disappointments, hut also in ,1 force which in the matter of physi(|ue is perhaps
une<|ualled in the whole army in South .Afric.i. In his work of (ir^,'anis.ition Colonel Lumsden
was al)ly seconded hy that line old soldier, Lieut. -Colonel L, .Showers, who formerly held a coin-
mission in the army, had left the service to 'jetomt a tea planter, and rode' lor years at the head
of the Surma Valley Lijjht Horse.

In (hie course all was reatly, and the order came for embarkation. Before the Corps left
India Lumsden as conunandant, and the intrepid .Showers as si-conil in command it was
inspected with due formality by the \'icer(jy. who referred in euloi^dstic terms to the his^h repu-
tation of its " hiefs," who, he felt certain, would lead it to victory, it had not iontf to
wait for its b,i, ism of tiri' once it landed at the seat of war ; but al.is, the gallant Colonel
.Showers was ile liitHl to die a hero's death in his first en^fai^cment. .\i the time of writing,
the subject of our sketch happily surviv<-'s, ami it is the hope of all his friemls that he may be
spared to reap the ■ wards of his pluck and enterprise, for a truer heart does not beat under
knaki tunic than th,u "f " Lumsden of I.um.sden's Horse."

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LIEUT. THE HON. F. H. S. ROBERTS, V.C.

RARl'I.Y ilocs a youiiij^ officer take up iliily willi a liriiisli ni^imi'iu uiulir morr
favcHiraljlc auspices ihail iliil I'rciltTick llu^ll ShiTslini Rulicrts. To lie the si m and
llu' i;rainisoii of ailistinguishfil solilicr is in itself, cimsiilereil a recumnu'iiilatiiin lor llu;
profession of arms, hut of l.ieuten.mt Roberts it can fairly he said that he was the onl)'
son of the most popular soldier of his ijcner.ilion I'icldMarshal Lord Roberts ol
Kandah.ir, V.C. .After a course of training at Tuon, where he won the reijarti of all hy his
open-hearted anil chivalrous nature, youns; KolK-rts went to the Royal Military Collej,jf,
.S.uulhurst, ami at tlie agi: of nineteen W4S <j;<izeit<(l on June loth, i8gi, to the Kini^'s Royal
Rilles as jnd Lieutenant, IVoceediiiL; at once to India, he joined thi; 1st liattalion of his
reu;iment at R.iwul I'iiuii. Here he put in the first few month-- >'( his servic<-. .\ brother olficer
wrote, a few weeks after his arriv.il, " Sir I-'reilerick Robe.ts' son h.is just taken up iluty. ( )thcers
and men .ir„ aiiki leli:.^ht< d with him. for he is full of enthusiasm .iiid excr re,id\' to enter with spirit
into an\- sports, Nl ulest and unassumini;, he has made friends on all sides, and is an uiuloiibted
accjuisition, but is buinin;,' to reciive his ' ba|)tisin of fire.' " He had not lon;^ to wait, lor his
wish was j^ratitied ir. 1S92, when the dift'iculty in Isa/ai renilered it necessary to put a small
e.xjieditio.i into the feld. of which th(! 1st Hatt.ilion Kini^'s Royal Rities fornK'd part. H.ivin).;
obtaini-ii lis lieuten..ncy June :''nd. 181)4. h<' was chosen by the l.ite .Sir Wilii.'.m Lockhart to act
as his aide ile-cain[) in the W'a/iristan b'xpedition of lSg.|-()5, .uid ,ic(|uitted himself so well that
the CieiK rai made ,' llatteriiiL,' mention of him in his desp.itchis, lie received the I'Vontier War
Mi'dal with dasp for this c.i'npai^^n. In the Chitral L.xix-dition of i,Sy5 he was .Vide decamp to
(ieiieral .Sir Robert Low, when he was a;^ain mentioned in desp.itehes, and obtained a second
war medal.

to luiL;lan(.l, he joiiutl his fither's staff
This

lr>l.ind as Aiilede-camp in

Iviturii iiL
December, iSc,;. This p.isition lid not, however, prevent his Li'iiia.; to bij;\|)t ill I.S(;S for the
l'!.\pedition to l''hartoum he liav n^i been siiecteil by .Sir Herbert Kltihener to .11 1 as one o| his
.Aides ile-camp, viieii he was for the third tiim
( JLii'eii's and the .KheihA 1 >; \*. .ir Mt
.\tricaii I'leKl liirci;

lie nientioneil ill il(;sp.ii( hes. ,ind reici\i-d lioih the
leiliM >; \'. .ir .■\Ie(1ai.; When the staff w.is beiiiL; formed for the South

- - iast year h<' was olfered by Sir Redvers Itiillcr the |>i'sl of .Aide decunp on

his personal .St.ifl and as such he laiuhxl at Cape Town. .Accomp.inyiii^f .Sir R(d\ers alterw.irds
to Nat.ii, he iiad the misfortune to lose his life in th<' first action for the relief of Ladysmith, on
December 15th, i^qg, in circumstances .if exce[)tioiial sadness, seeing ih.it ht w.is struck down at
the very moment wben h-j iiad so honourably won the drcor.ition which, beyond ,ill others, a br.ive
soldier trcisures- th • Ooss " for X'.ilour, "

The following i;,\tr,i't from die London (iiizc/ti oi I'eb.uary 2nd, locxi, tells its own
melancholy t.ile, and will .ict for all time as a st.i-,idinL; monument to the heroism ol a spit lulid
young soldier, who died as he would h.i\c wislicd to do 01; the ImiiIi- licld, fi.;luiiig for his
Uueen antl country,

■' The (Jueeii h.is been graciously ple.ised to signify lur iiiiiniior. to mnli r the

decorati(jn of the \ictoria Cross on the undermeiitioiied oiTu i-rs ,uid iioii-coiiimissioned

officer, whose names h.ive been submitted for Iter .Maje:,ty's approval, for their

conspicuous br,i\'i-\ at tlii- b.ittle of ( 'ulcnso,"

'I'luii follow the n.uiies of C.i|)iaiii W. .\. (.."ongrevc, Ritlc Mrig.ide ; Captain II. L. Reed,
7th Battery, Royal I i'ld .\rtilli:ry ; Lieutenant the Hon. V . H. .S. Roberts, King'-- Ros.il Rille Corps
^siiice deceased) ; Cor|)oral G. L, Xourse, 66th Mattery, Royal I'ield Artille-ry. The act of
gallantry referred to was in connection with thi- attempt to save the guns of the Ljih and 66th
IJ.itte-ries, Royal Lield .Xrtillery. after all the men serving tii.'.n hail been either killed or wounded
or driven back by a ^nurderous infantry lire. It was at that moment that the Captains Con'in-ve
and Reed, Lieutenant Roberts and Corjior.il .Xourse rushed forw.ird, and by a su|)riine effort
managed to save two of theguiis. Hut in tlie inoinent of victory Lieutenant Roberts fell mortally
wounded, and died a few hours later, to the ine.xpressiliie grief of the whole iiritisli Lmjiire.

MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX.

Tl 1 1'". War ill Soutli Africa has bt-en the j^ravc' of some reputations, hut it is certainly Rointj
to he the manufactory of others. Let us iio|K; that in thf latter cate^'ory will he included
the name of the ^'allant commander of the 13th Hriijade, who has alreaily had some
opportunity of showin"' his quality, and has worthily risen to thi! occasion, but who may
well, befori- the War is endeil, have attained a reputation on a plane (|uite diffen^it from that on
which h(' has hitiierto done, and admirably done, his duty.

General Knox's military cart-er up to the tlate of the dispatch of the .Sixth Division under
General Kelly-Keimy to South .Africa, w.is not an eventful one. Horn in 1.S46, he entered at the
Hereof 19 the old Ss'th, now the 2nd Battalion, Shrojjshire Li.yht Infantry, in which corps the
whole of his re^dmental servict' was done, and a battalion of which he commanded from 1890 to
1K94. The only l)reak in this lon^' spell of thirty-five years' rej,Mmeiital duty was an interval due
to the Hechuanaland I'".\peditii>n under Sir Charles Warren in 1884-5. '" ''ii'^ Maj(»r Knox, as
he was then, comma: led the 4th Pioneers, and was honourably mentioned, subsetiueiitly receivinij
a brevet lieutenant-coloneli y.

After retiring; from the Shropshire Light Infantry, Colonel Kno.\ spent about a ye.ir on
half-()ay, and was then api)ointed to the command of the 32nd Regimental Districr ^the Territorial
Regiment of which is the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry) with headijuarters at Bodmin.
When it became necessary to supplement the force in South .Africa by the I'ifth and Sixth
Divisions, Colonel Knox was selected for the command of the i;,th Brigade which formed part of
the latter. The .Sixth Division under tieneral Kelly- Kenny, made, it will be remembered, a
rather dramatic appearance, shortly after its arrival at Cape Town, on the northern border of
Cape Colony near Thebus. .Sul)se(|uently General Kelly-Kenny was recalled with General Knox's
Brigade to take part in the adv.uice on Bloemfontein. General Cle'.ients being left to take over
General I'Vench's command at .Arundel. General Knox was in charge of the i;,th Brigade
during the important action which (leneral Kelly-Kenny fought with the rear-guard of Cronje's
retre.iting army, shortK before the envelopment and surrender at I'aardeberg.

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LIEUT- COL. A. W. THORNEYCROFT.

CIT.-C()1.C).\1:L AI.l.XANDl.K W 1 1 1 1 I.I.AW II loKNIlN CKOl' r is ;i soldier
ot" whom nion- is likclv to l.r li.anl. ( )l him .i St.itl ( »t'lic(r wroic in OcioIkt, iS()9,
from Xat.il : " riionifyirolt h.is hr-'ii iliaij;--,! wiih the iliity of r.nsinij and commanilinij
a corps of moiiiit<«i m<n. and lU'idicss to say n < riiits arc lloikiiij,' to his stamlard.
His ihflicuUy is to sciirt the Ixst from th'- miinl»'r wlio olf.r themselves. He has only been
out hrr<' for a short time, Init his soiourii in liie Colony has l.een lon;^ enoui^h to secure for
him the cnfidenir ..f all who h.iv.'had any de,ilii)-s with him. I have no hesitation in
sayin;.,^ that he is amonij the smartest, most res .mt.MuI and ;.;o-aln ad ollicers o| his rank lh;U
1 hav^e ever met. His capaiitv for or^.misalio:) is wonvierful. and if tile hoily ol moiuitcd
troops are allowed to bear his name, they are snre to (li-,tinL;iii-
le.ider of his stamp they coukl not tail to do >o.' 1 his w,is
subsequent events h.ive shewn, it w.is well d<s<r\ed.

Ii themselves, lor under ii
very hii.;!! jiraisc, yet, as

Colonel Thiirneyiroft was Ixirn on J.mu.iry n.ith. 1S50. Heiny
w.is a|)pointed at the a'.ji' of eighteen to .i commission in the

destint'd for the .Army,
Mili;i.i. from which lie

passed on hCbruary ;:Md. 1S79, to a .Second- Lieutenancy in the Uo\al .Scots I'usiliers. His
battalion had just left b'.n-land for N.ital. and thither the youni.; biisilier proceeded to join
it. The Zulu W.ir w.is at th.it monn nt imminent. rhrou;jh that the Royal Scots |■ll^iliers
fiu;;ht gallantly, Thorni yi roft with them as a junior .Subaltern. Then cantc the ditticully
witii .Sekukuni. The l\o\,il .Scots i'usilier-. w.re to the fore. ,md (onducted themselves
.idmir.dilv at the capture of the town an^l storming,' of the I'i.^^hiin^ Ko|>pie. Hut it rarely
happens that verv junior ot't'icrs are afforded an opp'iriunuv el disiin.yuishini,' thiinselves, so
that Lieutenant Thorn<'vcroft. as he h.id beconu', liad to U- satisdeil with the Soulli .\trican
medal and clasp as his share of the horn urs of war.

Scarcelv, however, had .Sekukimi U-en d'-;^ ised of than tli'' lioer W.ir (ami: iii>on us.
Aj^ain the Royal .Scots I'usiliers y;ot their ch.ince, ..ml their services at the sU-^c of Pretoria,
in which Umitenant ThorneycroU took his full share, is not likely readily to hi: forgotten in
the historv of Hriiish .Snuih .\fric 1. .\ lon„' pe'-icni of in.iciixity loljowe.l for th*; o' ' 2isi.
The subiecl of our sketch volunt ered several times for active employment but was never
fortunate enoir.di to be selicted. In due course, on j.uiuary 2,',rd, |!sS*. he siu cr.-ded to his
Company. Tiiis, he ihoii.;ht. mi^hl help him to e.irn another war deoralion ; I'ut thou.,di he
went on jjlacini/ liis ser\ices ,it the disposal of the military authorities for sjx-ci.il emnloyinent
there was nu resnl' He would not, however, .illow himself to be iiis;»p|)oin'ed, st> he
stuck to his re'jfiment and palienilv aw.iited, in .1 Mii.iwbir like fash > :i, for " son.'-thiiv^ to
turn ii|)."

■ Whilst (ju.irtered l.isi summer ,it .Mdir^hot. lie reciu>-d orders t.) einli,irk .it once for
.South .Alrica, and a few d.iys afuiw.iros w.is on his way to N'.ital, to t.ike up the diitii's >>t
l)e|)ufy .Assistant .'\iiiut.int-( lener.d, and on <)(t'>lMi- ijih w.is promoted to the rank of local
I.ieut.-Coliinil and deputed to r.iise the Corjis with which his name has l)een so honouraUy
connected. I low s|)lendidly the C'orp-, under his conii" mil h.is acnuitteci itself on every
occasion in which it 1 .is been en;^age(.l is well known. tH its heroism at .Spion Kop outside
Ladysi'iith on Januip- 2^;rd 24th, an officer of the 2nd fiatt.ilion Lancashire ! usiliers wrote
at the tim<- : " I'he L h ivir)ur of Colonel I'hornevcroft and the men oi his M.HUited Inlantry
was beyond praise. To them is due. in a lar^ii me.isure, the fact th.it anylmdy cmiim away
alive. They hail killed Captains the Hon. \\ . I'eire and Kno\-Ciore, .mil Li«'utenants
fjrenfell, Newnh.im, .McCori|u.>d.ile .iiid the Hon. Hill Irevor, and fuurteen men, besiiles forty
woun<l''d. l'oi>r Thorneycrolt will douhtless rer.eive bl.uiie in some qu.irters Ix-tause he
decided to retire, but I can vouch for it that there was no oilvr course o|)en to him in the
position in wiiich he founil himself jjlaced."

And it turned out as was expected. I he indij^nation, however, with vhich the piiblic
received the expressions of censure in tli<- Spi >n Kop .lesp.uches w.ls in itself the bi'st pnxjf
of [jublic conlideiici' in ("olonel '.' h.irneycrofi, ih.m whom a bra> er and better soldier never
drew sword. W'h.it .Sir Red'crs lluller thinks o! him he has alreadv placed on record, and
will in due course no doubt say a;.,;.iin when the time > onies for hiai to sum u|i the work
of tile C.impaiyn in .N.it.il.

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MAJOR-GENERAL G. T. PRETYMAN, C.B.

MAJOR-(-,F.\F.RAL GHORCF. TINDAL I'RI'TYMAN is a soldk-r after Lord
RdlKTis' own heart, for lie is an al)le administrator, a trustworthy leader and a
coi.rteous f,'entienian. He was horn on March ist, 1845, and after j^oinj; throu^rh
the Royai Military Academy, Woolwich, was appointed to the Royal Rejriment
of Arlillory is Lieutenant, March 21st, 1865. For twelve years he did suljaltern's duty with
a hatli-r)', weariii;^ most of that time the hraiiled jacket of a horse-gunner. Ohtaininy his
Captaincy on Octolier ist, 1S77, he was pusii^d to a hattery in India; anil it was tiieii liiat
he ohtained his first step in tin,' direction of profe'ssional distinction. The Afghan War broke
out in iSy^. Major-denera! Sir I'Veih.'rick Roberts, who was given command of a column,
was m.ikin),' up his Staff, .snd decided to take ('ajUain I'retyman, untried as he then was, as
his .Aide-de-Cainii, a decision which he has had no cause since to rej^ret. Thus it came
about that the young gunner C iptaiii took part in the operations whicii resulted in the
taking of the I'eiwar Kotal, and also in the affair of .Sap.iri Pass, in the operations in the
Khost X'alN'v and at the battle of Charasiah, in all of which engagements he bore himself
so well tiiat when (iencral Roberts was organising his column for the desperate march from
K,d)ul to K.uidah.ir I'.is claims were not forgott'.n.

He was again with his "Chief" as Aide-de-Cam|), rode with him lri>m tiie beginning
of the inarch lo the end, taking part in the battle of September ist, and coming in for a
most tl.iitering mention in despatches. I'or his services during tht- .Afghan Campaign he was
|)romoted twice by brevet, first to the rank of .Nhijor and afterwards to tiiat of Lieut. -Colonel,
whilst he was at the same time I'ecor.ited with the war medal with tiiree clas[)s and the
bron/e decoration for the Kabul-Kaiulah.ir march. Afte period of leave in Fngland,

Lieut.-CJolonel I'retyman returned to liuli.i, and on N . i.;ber 2Sth, i.SSi, took up the-
responsible duties of Military Secretary, ALidras, whicli he held for three years until
October, i.S,S4.

On Novemi)er 6th, ICSS5. he was promoted a Urevet-Colonel in the Army, and on
April .St, 1887, was appointed Assist.dit Adjutant-Gener.il for Royal .\rtilli-ry in India.
Tnis Jffice he held for two-and a half years, only vacating it to accept the command
of a iecond class District, Hengal, in November, USS9. It was whilst thus employed
that the Isa/.ii ICxpedition w.is put into the tiekl in 1S92; in this, Brigadier-' leneral
I'retyman was in command of the F'irst Brigade. The enterprise proved a bloodless one- and
consequently there \w're no rewards; but those who wiTe called upon to '.'xecute tieneral
I'retyman's orilers were not slow to recognise what a c.ipable soklier b.e was, and an officer,
writing .ifter the return to cantonment, e.\j)resscd regret th.it there h.iil been no fighting because,
as he put it. "all r.inks desired to show their goiKl Cjeneral how much they appreciated what
he hai.1 ilone to make campaigning pleas.uit, ihough exacting of them the fullest ilemands
when duty called for war's sacrifices in the shape of extra inarching and nightly vigilance."

General I'retyman continued to exercise the duties of his Indian command until
Novemlx-r 21st, 1804. His live yi'ars having expired, he returned to Fngland. No further
employment caiiK; to him as a (."olonel. On June iith, 1897, hv. was promoted a Major-
(ieneral, but remained on the unemployed list until thcr end of last year, when l.onl Roberts
liaving been nomin.ited for the direction ol the South Africm Camp.iign, ottered him the

i)osition of Commaiulant at 1 leail-Ouarters which he accepleil with effect from 1 )ecember 2,;rd.
le is now employet! as .Milit.iry Ciovernor of Bloemlontein, and upon him devolved the duly
recently of reailing in the market s(|uare of President. Steyn's late capita! the proclamation
annexing the Orange River F'rec State.

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inuiil [Kisilicill III Cnlnncl ul tlx'

Sir Kirli.uil

NO iiiiiri' |i(i|)iil,ir olVuHT I'MT wore the iiiiilnrin nt I
(iihi'imI (icotTrv H.irtDii, wlm imw i)i(ii|iifs the |
Kr^imcnt, ln' l^aviii:; jiisi licrii ,i|i|iiiiMti(l in tlu' riHiin ul ( itiicr.ii Mr Km
Willir.ilKiin, (lircaMil. 'Cn'oMiy Hartoii was Imni im l'"iliriiaiy j.muI, iS.(.}, ami
rtifived his loininissiiin as |{iisi;4n to the ^tli kny.il l''ii-<ilicrs nii (Kinlicr _;iil, iSoj. lie Imv.uik:
I.ii'Utcnant on Ifliruary 14th, 1S65, ami was AdiuiaiU Irom iSin) to the ciul nl 1S7;,. wlicn hr «as
sflectcii til |)nKfotl on spec! il scrsicc tu the ( iukl Coast tor tht; I".\|H'ilition to Kumassi uiuIit
Sir (iarnit Wulsclcy. Arriviiii,' on the scene of oixrations. he simmi I'onntl hintscll t.ne to
fate with the eneiny. lie was present at the battle of Amoafiil, at thi- attack on Ueii|il.ih.
in the eni,'aL;enient at Jarliinliah. ami took a pioniinent part in the operations which resuln.l
in the capture of Kumassi. liein!^ very favourahly nunliom'd in despati lies, he. Im -.iilis
receivin:; the war nicil.il. ^•.as pronioti'd to ,1 h.ih p.iy ioM',"ny on April 1st. 1S74. ami noted
for I'.irly eniplo\ nuiit. ThU c.inv in the ()(tiilier follow iiv^. when \v w.is niaile .\iilrdi--
Cainp to M.ijor-lii'neral U. \'. Shipley. C.H., eoniniandin;.; a 'Iri^.ide at .Mdershot, and ^.1/1 Ite.l
tu the 23ril Royal Welsh i'usiliers. |-'roni the l.itter r(\;iimiii he .irranj^ed a tr.msfer on
Au;.;;iist ;th to his old corps, the Ko\al i-'usiliers.

Rem.iinin;,' on tlu' Staff at .Mdershot until .Se|.teml"r :9th, iS;;, he rejoined his
rei^iineni for a hrief |)eriod, out in Xoveinher. 1.S7S, lelt F{n.;l.uid for .South .\lric.i on special
service, and did duty throui.;h'iMt tin- Zulu War in c )niin and of the 4th It.itt.dion \at d
Native Contin;i'nt. hin,' pres nt in the haltli- of ( iin.;inhlowi. ( )ii the close of '!v w.ir he
w.is twice nientioni'd in desjiati Ins. was decorated with the .South .Xfrii.ui W.ir Mrd.il. and
promoted to a Mrevet-M.ijority. Returnin:^ to I-!no|and, he entered himsrll lor the St, ill
Colleije, passed the entrance examin.ition in the autumn of 1874, and joined at t anilwrley
early in iSSo. He nimained at the colle^'e until tlu; end of iSSi, when he took his
certilicat(! with j^reat credit. Then came a short term of rei^imental employment, hut tlr;
war in Iv^ypt in tin: autumn of iSSj l«roui;ht him .I'^.iin on to tlu' .St, iff. this time as !>iputv
Assist, uii .\iliut,uU-< iiH' ral in fomm.uul of .Milit,u\- Police lie was pri-si-nt at the .u tioij
at Kass.issin. and thi- liattli; of I'el-ifl Krhir. ,uul .v.is mentioned hy Sir <jarnei WoUrJiy so
favourably in his hn.il despatch, th.it in .iddition to the w.ir med.il and cl.isp and Khedive
bronze star, hi; was ilecorateil with the .|lh cl.iss of the Osm.mii'h and promoteil to a Hnvi-t
l.ieut. -Colonelcy. On January iotli, 1.SS4, he took up the duties of .Assist. ml Milit.iry
Secretary at Honv,'-KonL,'. and in l-'ebruary, 1SS5, accotnp.mied Lieut, -(ieiieral .Sir lierald
tiraham, \'.C., to the .Souilan, where he served on his .Stiff ,is .Assist. mt Military Secretary
throui^hout the o|)er,uions of th.it ye.ir. His only rew.ird for this sir\ici: was a cl.isp to
his Kgyiiii.m .Me<lal.

I-'or the next five years hr was with his regiment, to the comm.iml of ,i batta'ion
of which h" succeided f)n .September Sth. 1890. lie was at first with the home b.nt.ilion,
but at the end of 1S91 effected an cxchanj^^e to the 1st Hatlalion in Inilia, where ht; ilid
duty imtil Septenilx;r 3rd, 1S94, wht.'ii he w.is placed on half-pay at the end of his four
years in this r.uik. Hut his juriod of case was not to be for loni;. as 011 |-cbru.iry lOih,
1S95, h<; was recalled to iluiy ;is .Assistant .Adjul,uu(i(;n<;ral, I'h.mvs I)istri:;t, bein^
tr.msferred on thi' 1st of .April, 1897, to Chester in the same c,i|)a(ity. There In; remained
until Octolicr 27111, 1S9S, when, havin;^ atl.iined the rank of Major-( ieiieral, he had to vacate.

,As .1 (ieneral Officer he had to rest in (;iiforced retiri-menl until the autumn of last
ye.'ir, when he w.is otfert.il anti acc(;pted command of the oth liri;4.ide of the .South Afric.in
I'icUl Force, forming p.irt of the Division uiuler .Sir Willi. iin (i.it.icre. He arrived at tlu;
Cape in November, and shortly afterwards acconip.inieil Sir Redvi-rs IJuller to Natal, his
brigade being transferred to the Division commanded by l.ieut. (ieiieral Sir l-"rancis Clery,
under whose orders he served at the battle of Coleiiso. when the l'"usilier Brigade se greatly
distinguished itself. General Barton took part in all the ojjerations for the relief of
Lridysmith, and has added greatly to his reput.itiun.

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MAJOR-GENERAL J. P. HRABaZON, C.B.

TWV. military farcer of Major (icncral John I'almir Hralia/oii is of cvccptional infrcst,
itiasimiih as it funiishrs an iiiitaiicr in wiiiih an oltitir \r(l the army alter ohiaiiiiii;;
C'.i|)tain's rank, and njoined it as a sultaitern at tin; .v^ti of thirty-one. it certainly
speaks well for (ieneral llralia/on, tiial, notwithstandin;,,^ thi' serious tiisadvanla)^es
under which he lahomed when he ditermined to return to military duty, he has j^one steadily
forward, until he o((ii|)ies to-day a prominent position in Souili .Afrii.i, Horn on I'eliru.iry
I mIi, 184,^, it w.is on i-'ehruary .\iU. iSd,^, th,it < lentli-man Cadet ltr,ilM/on, was j,'ii/ettctl
to a Cornetcy in the 16th i.aiu'iTs. Six months ,ifterw,irds, the younj,' "Scarlet Lancer"
was promoted to the rank of lMisi.;n and l.ieuten.mt in the (In'nadier (luards, and on July
loth, iS()i;, he w.is further adianied lo the r.ink of |,ic iiien,int and ( ',ipt,iin. On i''el)rii,iry
a6th, 1S70, he j'xch.ni^ed to the ')<>tli Ke^^iment, and on Septemher 24th, iS^n, retired from
the service l>y the sale of his commission.

When Sir (larnet W'olseley was nomin.ited at the end of i.S;^ to proceed to the
\Ve4 Coast "M .Africa to conduct the I''.\pedition to Kimi.tssi, ('.ipi.iin llr,ili,i/on applied to
accomiMny him, ni,ikin^' known his readiness to emhark in any cip.uiiy. lie was permitted
to 140 as a ,Spi-ci.d .Service \'olnnteer, with the r.mk of C.ipi.iin, Iviuj^ .ittached on arriv.il to
the column undiT C.iptain (now l.ieui. ( lener.il Sir William) ItiiiN'r, in Western .\kim, and
afterwards to the Ir.uisport .Servici'. .So well w,is he reported upon, th,it in addition to the
War Meilal, he receive<! the offer of a commis-iion as l.ieuten.mt in the inih llu-.s,irs, heinj,'
nppointe(l on June i.^li, 1S74. Join it;,' his rejjiment in Indi.i, he; served with it in the
Al''.;h.m War of 1S7.S 79, ,i;vl -.v"^ afi.'-.vards employed ;is Oftici.itini; Hriijade .Major and
.St, iff ( )fticer of Cavalry, with .the Kuram I'ii-Id l''orce, iM'ini^ present at the capture of the
!'eiw,tr Kotal, in the ope-ations in the Khost N'alley, in the en;^,i|,'ement at Ch,ir,isi,ih on
<)ctol«T ()th, iS7(), ,uiil m the oper.itions roimd K,diul in DecemlM-r, 187(1, includin;^ the
investment '' '^herpur. ilavin;,' conv under the nutice of Sir {''rederick Koherts, he was
selected t< ■ 1 s Cav.ilry Urii^'.ide M.ijor in the m.in h from Kahui to Kandahar, ami was
preseiit at ittlc hefore the Litter pi u e in .Septemlier 1st, iSSo. I'dr his services he

was repe.iteiM iientioned in 1 )espatclii ^, wms promoted to a lirevet M.ijority, and receiveii the
W.ir Medal with Clasp, antl \>vn\\/.r. decoration.

In 1884 the 10th Hussars were orilered to l.uul .it .Su.ikim on their way home from
Indi.i, for .Sir (ierald (ir.ih.im's .Smid.m l''.xi)ediiiun, then heinjf organised. Mrevet Major
Ifr.iha/on was with them, took an active p.irt in the actions of |{l Teh and TaiiLii, and in
reiiv^nition of hi* services, w,is proinnled M,iy 2rst, I.SS4 to a lirevet Lieut. -(.'olonelcy,
and decorated with the [•".;|ypti.m Med,il with Cl,isp, and Khedivi's .Star. When in the followinj^
year the Camel l-orps w.is formed for the Nile i'xpeditinn, MreMt l,ieiit.-( "olonel Hrah.izon was
the officer chosen to take out the loth Hussars contir,:,'ent, in this w.iy hew;., ,il)le to pl,iy a
prominent part in the o|H'rations of the Desert Column, and to be present in the disastrous
(•n^aj^ement at .Mni Klea, on i'ehruary 16th and 17th, 1SS5, when the l.imented Major-
Ciener.il Sir Herbert .Stewart rt;ceived his tieath wound, .md the gallant ("olonel I-'red
iiiirnaby was killed. His rew.ird for this c,imp,ii'4n was a Clasp onU. On .\u;4ust loth, 1S.S9,
he was promoted to his sulisi.inti\e majority in the loth lluss.irs, and steps were at once
taken to .icknowledjre his professional merits, he Ixinijf on .August 2Sth .appointed an .\ide-
deC'amp to the (Juei'U. with the rank o( C'olonel in the .Army, lie w.is promoteil on
i'ebrii.iry 12th, 1891, to a half|)ay i.ietit. -Colonelcy, and on May I3tli followiuL;, was gazetted
to the comm.inil of the 4th Hussars, which position h(,' ri-taineil for fi\e ye.irs, an extra year
iK'iiijr ^iven him in conse'|uence of the spU^ndid condition into which the re;j;inient hid been
broujrht .IS a iV^htinif unit under his hanils. Then canK; a pcrioil of inaction ; but on
January 28th, 1899, he was posted to Canterbury as Colonel on the Staff to commantl the
Cavalry there and at .Shorncliffe. ( )n the formation of the |-"iekl I'orcc for South .Africa.
lie was chosen to command a Cavalry liriij.ule, and promoted to the" tempor.iry rank of
Major-Cieneral as from October 9th. iSc)9, and exercised the duties of that conuuanil under
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personal acquaintance with many of the best known officers of the l-"orce. i'hat commanil he
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CAPTAIN RAYMOND HARVEY LODGE JOSEPH DE MONTMORENCY.
V.C. 2ist LanctTs, Commandant of de Montmorency's " Scouts," lost his life whilst
gallantly upholdinj,' the honour of his corps in face of the enemy near Stormberg
on February 23rd, 1900. The circumstances were exceptionally siid. as this dashing
young soldier had liiore than established his reputation, despatch after desijatch having
told of his heroism anil the success with which he conducted the most perilous enterprises.
On the day on which he was killed, he was out with his men patrolling, his comiianion
being Licut.-Colonel F. H. Huskier. 3rd Middlesex Volunteer Artillery, attached to the staff
of Lieut.-General Sir William (iatacre. Ca|)tain de Montmorency had been told off to feel
(or the enemy, of whose strength and position General Gatacre reijuired information. So
far as is known, tiie party, consisting of the two officers and a few men found themselves
sudilenly in a tight corntT, the enemy appearing from the cover of a kopje. After stubbornlv
holding their own for over an hour, anil accounting for many Boers killed and wounded.
Captain de Montmorency and Colonel Hoskitr b)ih fell. A divisional order issued
by Sir William (jatacre, as the news reached his head-quarters, told its own s;id tale.
It ran as follows :—" It is with deep regret that the Lieut, (ieneral has to record the sad
news of the deaths, in face of the enemy, of Captain de Montmorency. V.C, Commantling
lie Montmorency's Scouts, and of Lieut. -Colonel Hoskier. 3rd Middlesex Volunteer Artillery,
who were killed whilst nobly doing their duty in face of tin; ciu'iny, on a perilous enter|)rise
for which they were eminently fitted by their dashing i|ualities and soldierly zeal, which
made them resi)ected by all ranks. Hy their de.ilhs the division h.us lost two very valuable
officers whose places it will be difficult to fill, and the General desires to place on record
the full sense of his sorrow that two such valuable lives should have been lost."

Captain de Montmorency was the eldest son and heir of that fine and pipular soldier,
M.ijor-General R. H. Frankfort de Monini.ireiu y. K(.Mi.. a Representative Peer of Ireland,
who served with distinction in the Crimean. Inilian Mutiny, and Abyssinian cam|>iiigns. and
more recently in the Soudan. Horn I'ebruary 5th, iShj, young de Montuiorency joined the
.Army as 2nd Lieutenant in tht: Leicestershire Regiment on Septemljer 14th. 1887, and
was transferred on October 12th following to the 21st Hussars. The regiment wa.s under
orders for embarkation for India, and thence young de Montmorency priKeeded with it,
taking over quarters at Bangalore, in the Madras Presidency. Shortly afterwards Lieut. -
Colonel T. E. Hickman was appointed to the command from the 14th Hussars. Colonel
Hickman's endeavour, from the day of joining to the day of his death on October 25th, 1892,
was to make the 21st Hussars second to none in all matters of soldierly efficiency. All
ranks threw themselves heartily into their military duties determined to give the readiest
sup[)ort to their ideal commanding officer. None were found keener than the young officers, and
of these Lieutenant de Montmorency was most zealous. Thus it came about that when
the Adjutancy fell vacant on July ist. 1898. he was selected to fill the vacancy. How well he
discharged his duties was proved by subsequent events. A Staff Officer wrote " I have been
down with the General to Madras on ;in Inspection tour; we s;»w the 21st Hussars and the
Chief did not know how highly to speak of the Regiment. It is a credit to all ranks, and if
it ever gets a chance of seeing service it is bound to make a big name for itself. Colonel
Hickman died at the head of his men rather than take leave to England and his splendid
example has made a great impression."

The regiment had not long to wait for the opportunity of wetting its sp<;ars for it was
moved to Egypt shortly afterwards, was th<Mi converted into a Lancer Corps and in the
Autumn of i89« was selected to accompany Sir Herbert Kitchener's expedition to Khartoum,
where its gallantry won for it the honoured title it now bears, the " Empress of India's
Lancers." whilst two of its officers and one of its men were decorated with the Victoria Cro.ss
Among them was Lieutenant de Montmorency. The act for which the award was made
is thus recorded in the official archives -' At the battle of Khartoum on September 2nd, 1898,
Lieutenant de Montmorency after the charge of the 21st Lancers returned to assist
2nd Lieutenant R. G. Grenfell who was lying surrounded by a large body of Dervishes.
Lieutenant de Montmorency drove off the Dervishes and finding Lieutenant Grenfell dead
put the body on his horse which then broke away, but Captain Kenna and Corporal
Swarbrick came to his assistance and enabled him to rejoin his regiment which had begun
to open a heavy fire on the enemy. ' On August jiid. 1899, Lieutenant de Montmorency
was gazetted Ca|)lain in the 21st Lancers. On October 28th he went to South Africa on
Special Service to die the death that one of his strong soldierly mstincts would have wished
to die, facing the enemy and in discharge of a most trying duty for which he had been chosen
by his General on account of his admitted fitness.

MAJOR-GENERAL J. TALBOT COKE.

THERE is no better Regiment in Her Majesty's Service than the King's Own Scottish
Borderers. Wherever it goes it is welcomed for its high character ; whatever it is
called upon to do it does well. The Regiment has produced in its time many
distinguished ofificers, but of those who have worn its uniform of recent years few
have been given the opportunity of winning glory in the field. The reason will be obvious
to all who are acquainted with British military history, fate having decreed that the old 25th
should invariably nave been out of the way when there has been fighting to be done. As
the honours borne on its colours show, it served at Minden, Egmont-op-Zee, in Egypt, and at
the recapture of the Island of Martinique. But between 18 15 and 1878 it was always on
the point of seeing service, yet never did. The first senior officer to break the record
has been Major-General Talbot Coke. In these circumstances it will be readily understood
that his career is watched with interest by the Regiment and its friends.

John Talbot Coke was born August 9th, 1841, and obtained his Commission as Ensign
in the 2 1 St North British Fusileers June 24th. 1859. On March i6th, i860, he exchanged to
the 25th King's Own Borderers, as it was then designated, and on August 23rd, 1861, was
promorod to his Lieutenancy. On receiving his step he was at once appointed Adjutant,
which position he filled with great advantage to all ranks of his Battalion until April i6th, 1865.
On August 2 1 St, 1866, he was advanced to the rank of Captain. In that year he served in
the Fenian Raid in Canada, for which lie, last year, received the War Medal lately issued
to all survivors by the Government of Canada. On August loth, 1875, he was gazetted
to the 2nd West York Light Infantry Militia, at York, as Adjutant. There he remained
until January 25th, 1881, when he reverted to duty with his own particular unit in view of
his pending promotion to a Majority. His step came on June 8th following. On
June 2 1st, 1885, he was gazetted and Lieutenant-Colonel, and on July ist, 1887, succeeded
that popular old Borderer Colonel Charles Errol Hope, in command of the 2nd Battalion
then occupying quarters at Aldershot. The following year took the Battalion to Egypt, and,
shortly after its arrival, the activity of the Dervishes in the neighbourhood of Suakin led
to the operations under Sir Francis Grenfell, in which the Borderers took part. At the
action of Gamarziih the Regiment greatly distinguished itself, Lieutenant-Colonel Joke
being mentioned in despatches, and receiving, besides the medal with clasp, the 3rd Class of
the Order of the Medjidie, and the Khedive's bronze star. The following year the Battalion
was again in the field, this time on the Nile, but the operations were unimportc>nt.

On September loth, 1890, Colonel Coke's connection with the Borderers ceased. He
had to vacate his command under the conditions of the Royal Warrant. He left the
Battalion in India, and, coming to England, settled down for a time at his beautiful seat,
Debdale Hall, Mansfield. But his character stood too high for him to be left long out
of employment. On April 8th, 1891, he was posted to I'ead Quarters in Ireland as
Assistant Adjutant General. He was transferred in a similar capacity to the Curragh Camp
on October 12th, 1894, and on March 13th, 1896, went to Aldershot as Deputy Adjutant
General to H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught. Here he added greatly to his reputation, so
much so, that when his case came Ixifore the Promotion Board it was decided that it would
be to the interest of the public service not to retire him for age disqualification, and he was
consequently given the command of the troops at Mauritius with the rank of Major-General
on May 28th, 1898. When in November last the 5th Division was formed for Service in
South Africa Major-Genera) Coke was offered command of the loth Brigade, which he
readily .iccepted. Since then he has taken his full share in the difficult operations of the
Natal Field Force under Sir Redvers Buller. General Coke is a member of one of the
oldest Derbyshire families; he is Lord of the Manor of Trusley in that county, and a J. P.

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SIR JOHN McNeill.

AT most State functions at which llcr Majt-sty is present, a very familiar figure is
that of Sir John McNi-iil. one of the (Juct-n s i'lciiicrrits, whom she is known to
hold in hijfh esteeni, anil whose name is famili.ir throuj,'hout the Service as that
of a very jjallant soldier and hij^h-minded ^'eniiiinaii. As wearer of Her Majesty's
own Cross " For N'aloiir," with, morfuvcr, forty years of active military service and six
campaigns to his credit, it is siiijrularly tittinjf that this tine old warrior should now constantly
be found at the side of his .Sovereij;n, her lailhlui atleiul.mt at ceremonial functions as he
was ever her faithful servant in camp and (]ii.irt<r:i. limes ii.ive chany;ed a )^ood deal in re;^ard
to military matters since Sir John McNeill first ilrew his sword, and his exp'rience may l)c
s;iitl to cover a particul.irly comprehensive fielil, in which astunisliin;,' proy;ress in a dozen
different directi(>ns is indicated. Hut the (jualitics for which his career has lief'n distinguished
remain no less valuable as |M)sitive milil.iry virtues than they wen- when he enten-d the
Army close upon half-a-ceiuury aj^o. Great ^'cneral he is not. nor very distiii;,'uishetl leader;
but he belonj'S to a very tine type of Hriii'-li soUlier. and ainonj,' the Ix-st and most
illustrious names in our military i)antheon there are few more truly honourable than thai of
John Carstairs McNeill.

Born in March, 1831, Sir John's first commissiop hears date December. 1850. His
first war service was in the "'utiny cam[),ii^Mi of 1.S57-8, in the cours*- of which he was
present at the sie;je and c.-i- >f Lucknow. and in the ofx-r.itions of the Azin^hur I'ield

Force. He was rewarded 1 s brave b<'haviour with two mentions in Despatches and a

brevet m.TJority, no moan Sn.iction for a youn^jsicr of litlli- more than seven years' service.
As a major in the old 107th F(K)t, now the 2iul Hatt.dion Royal .Susst-x Rejjiment, McNeill
went through the New Zealand War of 1861-5, in which he won his Victoria Cross and a
brevet lieutenant-colonelcy. F'ive distinct mentions in Despatches attest his sustained gallantry
in half-a-dozen actions of this arduous camp.ii^n. In 1870 Colonel McNeill was attached to
the Staff of Wolseiey's Red River Ex|K'dition, and was subse<juently decorated with the
C.M.G. In 1873-,^ he took part in the first .Ash.imi War, anil w;ls very severely wounded
at the Defence of HIssaman. Three more mentions in Despatches followed, and the C.B.
After promotion to K.C.B. for services in the Fjjyptian ExjH-dition of 1882, McNeill was
sent to Suakin in 1885 and commanded the force in the action at Tofrek. The Arab
attack on his force, while halted, was in the nature of a surprise and mij,'ht have had
serious results had not the troops, especially the Loodhiana Sikhs, who were included in the
force, behaved with great steadiness. General McNeill retired from the Army in 1890.
He has been an Equerry to the Queen since 1874.

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OF the many " Gay Gonlons " who now hold hij^h rank in the Army few are better
known and more res|K'ctt'd than Major-(icneral Charles Whittinjjton Horsley
Douglas, for it is recognized that whatever distinction he hjis earned has been
due to merit only. Horn in July, 1850, he was jfazetted to a commission in the
gjnd Gordon Hij,'hlanders, by purchase Decemlxr 16th, 1869. The regiment was stationed
at thiit time in India, whither young Dougliis proceeded, and where in due course he reported
hims<rlf to the then Commanding Officer, none other than Lieut. -Colonel Forbes Macbean,
rather of the gallant officer who now rides at the head of the 1st Battalion in South /Xfrica.
On Octolx-'r 27th, 1871, Knsign Douglas obtained his Lieutenancy, he having been the
last officer of the regiment to secure his step under purchase conditions, as the system
was abolished by Koyal Warrant within three days. Being not only very smart but equally
(Mipular with all ranks. Lieutenant Douglas, when tht; Adjutancy became vacant in December,
1876, was recommended for the post, and his ap[>ointmcnt having been approved by the
Commander-in-Chief at home, he had the satisfaction of doing duty m this important capacity
throughout the operations of the Afghan War, including the engagement at Charasiah on
Decemlxr 6th, 1879, the subsequent pursuit of the enemy, the operations round Kabul in
DecemU'r, 1879. the investment of Sherpur, and the engagement at Charasiah on April 25th,
1880. F'or these services he received his first mention in despatches, and a war medal
with clasps.

the march from Kabul to Kandahar, in which the 92nd Highlanders
conspicuous part. Captain Douglas— he had been promoted to his company

Then came
played such a coi

July 29th, 1 880- -accompanied the regiment and was with it in the reconnaissance of August 31st,
ami the biUtle of the following day in front of Kandahar, when his horse was shot under
him. He was once more mentioned in despatches, and in recognition of his "great zeal and
ability " wits promoted to a Brevet- Majority, l)esides receiving the bronze decoration issued
to all who t(M)k pun in the march.

The following year took the " Gay Gordons " to South Africa for the Boer War, in
which Major Douglas took p;irt. For this, however, there was no reward. The regiment
returned to F.ngland and did garrison duty at Edinburgh and elsewhere. Major Douglas
discharged the duties of Adjutant for the second time from February 25th, 1882, to Dece-^nber
31st, 1884. The campaign in Kgypt in 1885, however, gave him another chance of earning
distinction, as he was selected to go out on Spt;ci.il Service. He left England in February,
and after spending some time at Suakin was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General
and yuartermaster-General in Egypt. At the close of the cam^jaign he reverted to his
regiment in which he had obtained promotion to a substantive Majority.

On March 6th, 1886, he was appointed Adjutant of the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers
and so acted for four years. After a further short spell of regimental work he was chosen
to be a Brigade Major at Aldershot in May, 1893, and discharged Staff duties until May 28th,
1895, which he vacated, on promotion to a half-pay Lieut. -Colonelcy. He returned to Aldershot
on October ist, 1895, as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General of the Division, also taking
charge of the instruction of officers. On May nth, 1898, he was appointed an Aide-de-
Camp to the Queen with the rank of Colonel in the Army. Before the end of the month,
his higher rank having qualified him, he became Assistant Adjutant-General at Aldershot,
and continued to act in that responsible capacity until October last when he took his
departure for South Africa as Assistant Adjutant-General on the Head Quarters Staff of
General Sir Redvers Buller, who is known to entertain the highest possible opinion of him.
When the reorganisation of commands was carried out in February Uist, Colonel Douglas
was chosen for the command of a Brigade, of which he is still in charge. As an old
brother officer says : " A better soldier than Douglas never drew claymore. There is no detail
of his profession which he has not mastered thoroughly. His whole heart is for his work,
whatever that work may be. He is quick in his decisions, a splendid drill, and a master of
tactics. His qualities as an administrator have been proved too often to need to be mentioned.
I have met many good Adjutants, but without exaggeration I say that he was the best I ever
came across. And to all his other good points may be added the fact that his heart is as
' true as steel.' "

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MAJOR-GENERAL F. HOWARD, C.B., A.D.C.

TMI'.RH is no name which stands hi(;hcr ,inu)njj thr risinjj KPneratinn of "Green
Jackfts" than that of Majur-CiciuT.il Irantis Unwani. (leneraj Howard is a
typical rillcinan ol th«' In-st school, drvotcil to his profession and always anxious to
uphold thf character of the distin;;iiish('d rt;n''"<'"' '" which his trainini; was received.
Horn March 36th, 1848, he rect-ivfd his j-nsi^'ncy in the Killi- Hri^jadc hy purchase, April 3rd,
1866, In-coming Licuttmant May 28th, 1870. He took his certitican- at the Hythe Scnool n(
Musketry early in his career, doini; so well that in Noveniljcr, 1S70, he was amxiintcd
Instructor of Musketry to his luttalion, which position he held until he obt.iincd his Cum|)iuiy
on April 30th, 1S78.

Promotion came to him just as he was n'turninm from the Jowaki Kxpedition, 1877 78.
in which he had earned his first war ineilal. He had not lon;^' to w.iit \ti-u>n: he founil him-
self in the tield a^ain, for at the tnil of 1878 he was orderi-d on active service with the
4th Battalion Kille Hrijjade for the Af^'han War. He served with the Peshawur Valley
Field Force, Mrc^ present at the capture of Ali Musjid, an»l ex|«ditions to liiuar Valley
and Lu^nman Valley. Bein^ then a Captain only, he had no opportunity of distin^'uishin);
himself, so he had to be siUisfied with the medal and clasn. His Majority came to him on
April 13th, 1881. For six years afterwards he did re^^imental duty, and it was as a I'ield Officer
of the 1st Battalion Kitic Brigade th.it he served in the ilifticult o|M'rations in Burma in
1888-89, when he was mentioned in despiilches and received a Hrevei Lieutenant-Colonelcy
on August 33rd, 1889.

In due course he came to F.n'^land, and on Oecemlx-T 5th, 1894, found himself promoted
to the command of the 3nd Battalion Kitle Brigade. His reputation was such that it was
thought tlesirable to push him on, so on January 30th, 1895, he was appointtnl an .\ide-de-Camp
to the (Jueen with the rank of Colonel in the army. His battalion was at Ntalta in 1898
when it was decided to make a supn nu? effort to crush Mahdism by an atlvance on Khartoum,
and it received orders to join .Sir Herl)ert Kitchener's force. How w<'ll it did its tluiy at the
biittie of Khartoum is well known. Colonel Howaril was mentioned in .Sir Herbert Kitchener's
despiitches in most complimentary terms, and in acknowledgment of his splendid siTvices
was granted a Distinguished Service Reward of /'loo a year in addition to receiving the
British and Hgyptian War Medals.

The Rifles were moved to Crete from Kgypt. Here again Colonel Howard
greatly distinguished himself by his conduct during the disturbance, so much so that the
Foreign Office recommended him lor a CM. CI., which he received June 3rd, 1899.
On December 5th, 1898, his term of regimental command expired anti he was phtced on
half pay, but on Octoljer 7lh, 1899, he was officially gazetted to the command of a Brigade
of the South African Field Force with the rank of Major-deneral, and did duty in that
capacity throughout the Siege of Ladysmith. (Jf him, an officer who went through the siege
wrote recently :-— " We have Ix-en lucky enough to bt; in Cieneral Howard's Brigade. I have met
many good soldiers in my time, but I must give credit to our gallant chief, for a better
officer to serve under could not be found. General Howard is one of the strictest of
tlisciplinarians but he knows exactly where to draw the line. He is a splendid soldier, and
no wonder the Rifle Brigade people are proud of him, for he is a credit to their cloth if ever
man was. Everybody recognises the sterling good that is in him, and to serve with him is
a satisfacticm, so thoroughly is he master of his profession."

LIEUT.-COLONEL E. C. BETHUNE.

LIEUT.-COLONF.L KDWARU CECIL BETHUNR is a noUIier who has played
many parts, .md played thorn all well. Born June 23rd, 1855, the son of Admiral
Bethune of Balfour, l*'ifeshire, he determined very early in life that no other calling;
wouKI suit him but that of Mars, so he was trained accordingly and went to the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received his commission as Sub- Lieutenant in the
93nd Gordon Highlanders on September loth, r875. and, joining the regiment in India,
served with it in the earlier phases of the Afghan War, 1879-80, including the operations
around Kabul in Decemlier, 1879, for which he received tlie medal with clasp. In 1 881 he
went with the Gordon Highlanders to South Africa for the Boer War of that year, and wan
present in most of the operations in which the 92nd took part.

Returning to England he devoted himself assiduously to the study of the higher
branches of his profession, and ultimately passed in the Autumn of 1884 the examination
for entrance to tne Staff College. He had l)ecome a Captain in the Gordon Highlanders
on February ist, 1884, and after passing from the College in December, 1896, he decided to effect
an e.xchange to the Cavalry. He was gazetted on April 13th, 1887, to a troop in the 6th
Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), which regiment he joint:d in Inilia. But his claims for Staflf
employment were very stum recognisetl, and on October 20lh, 1887, he was appointed a
Garrison Instructor on the Madras establishment, which position he held, with much
advantage to the Army, until October 19th, 1894. So high did his character stand, that on
Septemijer 4th. 1895, he was s[)ecially s<:lected for promotion to a Majority in the i6th Lancers.
It was during his pericnl of employment in Madras that he had the misfortune to lose his
right hand by an accident. Sued a thing would have incapacitated most men from continuing
active service with the cavalry, but Major Bethune was not to be deterred from following
his profession, and so from 1895 to January, 1898, he did duty as a squadron leader.
He was then selected for further .Staff employment in India, having been appointed a Deputy
Assistant Adjutjmt General, being transferred shortly afterwards to Bombay as an ofificiating
Assistant Adjutant General. He was so employed when the trouble arose in South Africa.

On the Indian contingent being ordered to Natal, Major Bethune was chosen to
accompany the cavalry as Brigade Major, but on arrival found himself posted to Durban as
Commandant. It was whilst filling this resix)nsible post that he was requested to raise
Bethune's Mounted Infantry — with what success history will relate. For some time this
intrepid leader acted as a Brigadier under the orders of General Sir Redvers Buller,
having with him, b«;sides his own well-trained troopers, the Imperial Light Infantry, two
Naval i2-pounder8, two Hotchkiss guns, two Field Artillery guns, and the Umvoti Mounted
Ritles. In recognition of his brilliant services, he was lately appointed second in command
of the 16th Lancers, but Sir Redvers Buller pointed out how desirable it was that he should
not be interfered with, so for the present he remains at the head of the Corps which owes
its existence to his energy. Colonel Bethune is in every respect a wonderful man, for
notwith.standing the difficulties under which he labours — he having only one hand — there are
few sports in which he does not excel. As for his vjualities as a leader, they have been placed
beyond doubt during the last nine months, when the work done by Bethune's Mounted
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new school, is a man who has lived with his valise packed ready to go anywhere, and do
the proverbial ai\ything. Born in May, 1849, he joined the Army as Ensign and
Lieutenant in tie Coldstream Guards May 17th, 1869, became Lieutenant and
Captain August 14th, 187!, and was Instructor of Musketry to hi-, battalion 1876-77. In
November, 1879, he joined the Staff of Sir Frederick (now Lord) Roberts as Aide-de-Camp,
and served throughout the Afghan Campaign of that and the following year, including the
advance on Kabul, the engagement at Charasiah on October 6th, 1879, and in the operations
arouad Kabul in December, 1879, including the Investment of Sherpore. When General
Rol erts determined to make th» march from Kabul to Kandahar which established his reputation,
Captain Pole-Carew accompanied him. He was present at the Battle of Kandahar, and there
greatly distinguished himself Indeed, throughout the operations of the campaign Captain Pole-
Carew was conspicuous by his " zeal, gallantry, and ability," as General Roberts put it in one of
the many Despatches in which he brought the claims of tne youny Staff Officer to the notice of
those in authority. Unfortunately, it was not found possible to recognise his merits. At the
same time, it was made known to him that he would be rewarded later. All he got, therefore, for
the year's hard campaigning was the War Medal with three clasps, and the Bronze Decoration,
issued to a',1 ranks who took part in the Kabul- Kandahar march.

Returning ta England on the cessation of hostilities, Captain Pole-Carew went back to
regimental duty with the Coldstream Guards. The Egyptian War of 1882 again brought him
active employment, us he was chosen to be Orderly Officer lo H.R.H. the Ouke of Connaughi,
commanding the Guards Ltrigade, and was present as such at the engagem^'nt of Tel-el-Mahuta
and the battle of Tel-cI K ebir. For his services in Egypt he received the War Medal with
clasp and Khedive's Star, whilst the Duke of Connaught personally ackn iwledged in handsome
terms his sense of the assistance he had afforded him.

Cn July 1st, 1883, he was gazetted a Captain and Lieut. -Colonel in the Coldstream Guards,
and in October, 1884, rejoined the Staff of Sir Frederick Roberts as Military Secretary at
Madras where Sir Fretlerick was then local Commander-in-Chief. In November, 1885, General
Roberts as he still was, was nominated to succeed General Sir Donald Stewart as Commander-in-
Chief in Ind'a, and Lieut.-Colonel Pole-Carew accompanied him to Calcutta as Military Secretary.
In (886-87 'ic went with him to Hurma, and for his services was mentioned in Desptttches, and
received a C >mpanion.'hip of the ith, and the War Medal with clasp. On June 30th, 1890, he
vacated his appcintme,>t with I.ord Roberts, and reverted to his Regiment, having on
October 25th, i888, been g.^zetted a Brevet-Colonel. On February 5th, 1895, he succeeded to
the command . f a battalion of the Coldstream Guards, which he held until F"ebruary 5th, 1899,
when he was pi -ced on half-pay.

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His ter.T. of dleness was, however, to be of short duration, for directly it became known that
theie \v':is a prosp ;t of a war with the Boers, he was offered and accepted the appointment of
Commandant ar F''aHnii-rti.s. in which capacity he left England with Sir Redvers Buller's Staff
in October last. Arriving at Cape Tovn he was sent, after a few weeks, to the front with Lord
Methuen, and so was able to be present at the principal actions on the Modder River. When
Sir Henry Colvile succeeded to the commaiiu of a division. Colonel Pole-Carew was selected to
succeed him as Major-General it command of the Guards Brigade, and on April i6th last he
was advanced, in recognition of his eminent .services, to the command of a division with the rank
of Lieut. -General. Since that time he has Ijeen fore .''■ost whenever 'h^-re nas been hard work to
be doi'.e. Lord Roberts places 'he utmost reliance in him, and so the name of Pole-Carew has
been mentioned frequently in the Despatches of the Commander-in-Chief who has referred more
than once to the excellence uf his leadership. A better soldier than " Polly Carew," as he is
familiarly called by his friends, never wore the Guards' bearskin, which is saying a good deal
having regard to the long roll of distinguished men who have in past times graduated in Hei
Majesty's F"^oot Guards.

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MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN BAILLIE BALLANTYNE DICKSON, C B.. may
fairly be pronounced one of the most popular General Officers on the list of the
British Cavalry. Born October 24th, 1842, he was originally in the Indian
Service. He received his Commission as Cornet in the Ben<fal Cavalry shortly
before the final disappearance of "John Company," on January 20th, i860,
becoming Lieutenant January ist, 1862, Brevet-Captain January 20th, 1872, and Captain
Decemlj»;i 31st, 1872, when he was transferred to the Indian Staff Corps, with which he
remained until October 23rd, 1875. He then joined the ist (Royal) Dragoons. He had
been unlucky enough not to gain any war experience in India, and he was only too ready
therefore, in the Summer of 1879, to proceed to South Africa on Special Service in
connection with the Zulu War. Arriving at the Front he did duty with the Native Carrier
Corps, and so gained the Medal with Clasp. On return to England he resumed duty with
his regiment, in which he became Major on October ist, 1881.

When in 1884 il was decided to make up a Camel Corps for service in the Nile
Campaign, Major Dickson volunteered to go out in command of the detachment furnished
by the Royal Dragoons. This he was allowed to do, and he served with great credit
throughout the Campaign — from September, 1884, to March, 1885, as Deputy Assistant
Adjutant General — being present at the battle of Abu Klea, when Major-General Sir
Herbert Stewart received his death woimd. He himself was severely v/ounded. For his
services he received the War Medal with Two Clasps, and the Khedive's Star, and on
April 28th, 1885, was specially promoted to the Second Lieut. -Colonelcy of the 5th Dragoon
Guards, which regiment he commanded from April 25th, 1887, to April 25th, 1893, and
brought to an admirable degree of efficiency. For two years he was unemployed, but on
March loth, 1893, he was induced to accept command of the 49th Regimental District at
Reading. This position he exchangid on May ist, 1897, for the more congenial one of
Coljnel on the Staff Cf mmanding tlie Cavalry Brigade at Colchester.

On April 12th, 1899, he was ap|xiinted to the command of the troops in the Straits
Settlements with the temporary rank of Major-General, and at the beginning of the year was
selected to proceed to the Cape to take over command of a re'nforcing Brigade of Cavalry,
which was sent out from England. General Dickson is highly thought of at head-quarters.
This is proved by the fact that his appointment to the command at Singapore was due largely
to a desire that so able a cavalry officer should not be removed from the Active List under
the operations of the age rule, as he would have been in October of last year had he not
been promoted to Major-General's rank. He has devoted much thought to the subject of
Cavalry tactics, and, as the late Lieut. -General Keith I>aser — for many years Inspector-
General of Cavalry — used to say of him, " he could be trusted anywhere with a cavalry force,
for it would not be his fault if those under him did not rii'p to glory." And General Fraser
had many opportunities of forming an unbiassed opinion. It was during the celebrated
Berkshire Cavalry Manoeuvres that the qualities of leadership of General Dickson were first
put to a practical test, and the name that he earned for himself then he has more than
upheld since.

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OF the many clistinjjuishcd Dftkcrs who jjriuluatccl uiuier Lord Kitchener in Egypt
Lieut. -(ieneral Sir Archibald Hunter is perhaps the best known, as he was essentially
Lord Kitchener's fightiiiij; (iencral. In the operations for the suppression of
Mahdisni General Hunter was entrusted with the duty of actually controllinjr in
all acti(jns the comi)act and hijjhiy disciplined forces which had been broujjht into such fine
condition under Lord KitchiMicr's hand. It may be an exa<jijeration to siiy that the Army
which defeated the Khalifa's brave followers at Atbara and LK:fore Khartoum was the most
|>erh'ct tiijhtin<j machine ever placed in battle array; but this, at any rate, can be said
with perfect truth, that, led by Lord Kitchener and .Sir Archibiild Hunter, it was for the
purposes for which it had been br()ui,dit tojrtther a in.irvel of conjpleteness. Lord Kitchener's
was the brain that had oriijinateil the plan of cnnpaijjn. in the execution of it in detail his
popular Second in Command was given proper laiiiut'e. Hence all went well, friction bein^
rendered impossible.

Sir Archibald Hunter has the distinction of havin attained the rank of Major-Genera!
on the Lstablishmeiit at a period of life when most so lers consider themselves fortunate if
they are in command of their rej^'iments. He was liorn .September 6th, 1856, and obtained
his fii'st commission as Sub-Lieutenant June 13th, 1S74. joining; the 4th Kinjj's Own
Kejjiment hi- in due course went to Hythe, took a I'irst Class Certificate with credit, and
became Musketry Instructor to his battalion on January 25th, 1S79, e.Nchanjjinjj these duties
for those of .Adjutant .April ;oth, iSSt). H.ivini; i;ot his company, .August 30th, 1882, he
determined to throw in his lot with the Kgyptian Army, which he w.is appointed to on
February aSth, 1884, and remainetl with until he wen' to Iiulia in March, 1899, as Mujor-
(ieneral, to take over the comm.uid of a first-class district.

Ffis record of war servici: .and reward ni.iy be summariseil as follows: Soudan
Expedition, 18S4 85 mention("d in Despatches, medal with cl.isp, bronze star, Brevet of
Major, and 4th Class »)f the ( )sm,inieh ; .Soudan, iS,S5 69, action M (iiniss— severely
wounded, mentioned in Despatches. D.S.O., 3rd Class of the Mitljrdech ; .Action of Arguin,
action of Toski wounded, in comm.md of a Brigade, mentioned in Despjitches. clasp and
Brevet of I-ieut. -Colonel ; Fx|)eilition to Dongola, 1896, in comman<l of iilgyptian [division —
mentioned in Despatches, promoted Major-General for distinguishetl service in the field.
British medal, Egyptian medal with two clasps; Nile i''.\jx.Hlition. 1897, in command of
Column .Action at .Abu H.uned and otcup.ition of Berlx-r mentioned in Des|>iitches, jnd
Class of thr (Jsmanieh, and two clasps to Egy|)tian medal ; .Nile Exp:dition, 1898. in
command of Egyptian Infantry Division Battles of .Atbara and Khartoum mentioned in
Despatches, K.C.B., thanked by U)th Houses of I'.irliament, and two clasps to Egyptian
medal.

When it was decided to semi the Indian F.xpidiiion to Natal in the summer of 1899
Sir .Archibald Hunter was chosen to accompany it with me view of his taking up the duties
of Chief of the Staff to (ieneral Sir Kedvers Buller. This, however, he was prevented
from doing, .is he went on to Ladysmith, and so was ItKketl up there during the siege. But his
services v\(!re invaluable to Sir (jeorge White, wh(j has reported in high terms of admiration
of this l«)rn leader. .As soon as the relief of Laf'ysmith came General Hunter was ordered
to proceed to the Cape, and since the begirning of March liLSt he has been continually
Ix-'forc the public as Lieut.-(iene;al Commanding the hard-fighting loth Division, which
has conducted itself so admirably on all occasions.

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BRIGADIER-GENERAL LORD CHESHAM.

WHEN Lord Roberts decided, before proceedinjj to South Africa, that it would be
necessary larjjciy to augment our force of Cavalry in the field, our military
authorities were placed in a position of extreme difficulty. The ranks of Cavalry
regiments on home service had been so depicted to make up those then at the
front to war strength, that there remained but three corps which were fit to go on
service. Lord Roberts wanted at least 10,000 mounted men from home alone. How were they
to be raised .' There was much consultation on the subject. It is due in a large measure to the
influence and wonderful organizing capacity of Loril Chesham that Lord Roberts' demands were
met, for he grasped the situation and resolved to make an appeal to the patriotism of his fellow-
countrymen. Thus it was that th ■ splendid fighting force — the Imperial Yeomanry --sprang into
existence at the beginning of the year 1900. It had bt;en the custuni for some time past for
ignorant critics to pronounce the Yeomanry an aristocratic sham. Lord Chesham always
resented that view ; and that he was right, and the critics wrong, the result of his appeal to his
own regiment showed conclusively.

Charles VViHiam Compton Cavendish, B.iron Chesham, of Chesham, in the County of
Buckinghamshire, was born December 13th, 1S50. He received his first commission in the
Coldstream Guards on March 30th, 1870, but was transferred immediately afterwards to the
loth Hussiirs, of which regiment he becami; Adjutant May 17th, 1876. Obtaining his troop
October 13th, 1877, he exchanged to the 16th Lancers, and shortly afterwards retired from the
Regular Army, and was appointed July 2nd, 1897, to a troop in the Bucks Yeomanry. He was
promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the regiment on April 24th, 1889. He has raised the
corps to such a high standard of efficiency, that it is, perhaps, unequalled in the whole Yeomanry
Service. It was only, therefore, in the nature of things that he should have lx;en offered the
command of the loth Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry when it came into existence in January
last. His command consists of two Companies drawn from his own County and one each from
Berkshire and Oxfordshire. This battalion was one of the first to land in South Africa, and was
at once pushed on to the front. Thus it came about that the loth Battalion was the first
Yeomanry unit to receive its baptism of fire, its behaviour in Lord Methuen's action at Bcishof
having been highly commendeil by that distinguished com nander, who pronounced the gallantry
ol the yeoman troopers as worthy the btist traditions of tht jJritish Cavalry.

That Lord Chesham has the full confidence of those serving under him is proved by the
following extract from the letter of one who wears the uniform of the loth Battalion : — " We have
had our first fighting experience at Boshof and have come through the ordeal s|)l(-ndidly. Lord
Methuen — one of the best of soldiers and kindest of men — has been very complimentary, as he
told us he never wisheil to leail better troops in action. We are all very glad of course, more
particulc'trly as any credit we earn for ourselves is even greater credit for Lord Chesham,
our commanding officer, who is not only respected by his officers but loved by the non-

His Lordship seems to possess every quality that a good
pleasure to all ranks to carry out his orders, because it is
to handle men and get the best out of them without that
We all recognise that we could not serve under a better
chief." In recognition of Lord Chesham's success as a leader in the field he was offered the
command of a brigade of the Imperial Yeomanry, and he took up his duties with the rank
of Brigiulier-Gencral, under Major-General Brabazon, on March 4th, 1900. Since that time
he has been indefatigable. He is the only Yeomanry officer who has been selected for so
im|)ortant a position, but everyone who knows him recognises the honour for which he has
been chosen is one that he richly deserves.

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Tl 1 1', n.iini- of Kiinini^ton ol " Kiinini;ton's (iiii.lfs " st.inds out proinincntly in the records
of reniit South Alriiaii t.iin|>,ii-nin'^', lor ih« ;^oo(l work dour !)> the corps, which owes
its cxiMriicc to the -.illaiit Inniskiiliiij;, has U'cri ihi' ihrme of many a |M'n at the
front. What niaki's the success of " Kiinini^ton's (iiiides" the more remiirkahle is
that the lorps is mniiiosed of men wlio were none of them soldiers liy trainiiij; when
they were enmlliil.

Recruited in N.it.il. they si'ein<il to sjirin.; into existence as a (hsciplined Ixxly in response
to ,1 luii^ie call, .md, ha\in;.; unci' gathered toL^iiher in military formation, tiiey decided anionj^
llieinseives that they had (oine to sinp. At all events, they h,i\i' followed their inirepiti leader
with loyalty and devotion, anil whenever there has heen h.ird liL;hiin;,' to lie done, tht-y have
l»een in it, if jxissiiiie. Yet it w.is scircely as .in actual ri.;htin:^ i)i>ily that they were raised. It
was the itiea of their ahK; comin.mder th.it they, liein^ men v\ho knew the country, should act as
a sort of Intelligence Corps pl.iy the p.irt. in l.iit, th.it tln' derm. in I'hlans did in the War of

1S70-71. These duties, howcvi-r. c.ime so e.isy to them lll.lt experienii- soon shov>cil they could
he the " I'!yes and M.irs nf the .Army ' .md sonvlhiie^ more U'sides, .So it has come aliout that
" Kimill;^ton's (llliiles" h.ivi' e.irned .1 world wide repilt.ltinn.

Of their fiiunder and tonnn.iniler, M.ij<>r Mich.iel Inderii Kimin^ton, it m.iy l>e saiil that
a finer cavalrv soldier never drew siihre. Horn May i.^d, iS^.S, he entered the .Service rather
late in life, for he w.is well on the way to his twenty fourth ye.ir when he was j^a/etted to the
6th ( Inniskillint;) ! >r.i'.^oons on (ktolirr 22nd. iSSi. The re>j;imein w.is then in N.ital, aiul there
l.ieulenant Kimin^ton jnined it. W'li.ii was thoiiijht of him hy his revjimental su|M-riors is Iw-st
shown iiy the f.ict that when the Ailjiit.imy of the lmiiskillini,'s tell v.icant in Auijust, 1S.S6, h<',
still a l.ieuten.mt, w.is selccteil t(i till the ,i|ipointnient. which lie held iiiuil OctiiU'r, 1S88. In
that ye.ir hi' w.is emploxed iliiriiiL: die iroiililes in /iilul.ind. and .idded considcrahly to his
re|)ut.ition liy tli<' w.iy in which hi- disch,iri.jed his duties in circumst.inces of extrenie difficulty.
H<' Ixxame C'apt.kin OcIoIht 26th, 1SS7. The liniiskillin),;s rem. lined in South Africa until
the enil of iSgo, and Capt.iin Rimin;,'ton w.is with thi'in durinj.^ the whole of their tour. 'I"his
j^ave him, of course, a consider,il)le insi'.^ht into loc.il methods, .uid to this <-arly training; his
success recently has Ix-en tlouhtleis l.ip^'ely due.

On .April ud. \^<)J. he "^ot his in.iinriiy in his regiment. I lis character was such that he-
was immediately chosen to join the .Si.ilf uf ihi- kiinoiiiu I )ep,irtmeiit, .led on . September tst, 1S97,
took up the duties of .St,iM-< "apl.iiii in Irel.iiid, which he held until he left lor .Snulh Africa, on
special service, in July, i.S(;y. Hi' h.id not l.uiiled lon<; helore it Ix'canv evident that war was
certain Major Kimini,'toii, with his wide experience, was used as ifeneral-utility-man. Whatever
he was called upon to do hi' did well. In all the circumst.inces it is sc.irtndy to Im; wondered at
that lie should have hroui^ht the cor|)s, at the head of which he h,is ii<lden for upwards of a year,
to such an .idmir.ihle state of perfection.

Lieut-General SIR ROBERT LOW, G.C.B.

CUT.-GKNKRAL SIR KOIH-RT CUNI.II-FI' LOW, now commamling Her Majesty's
Forces in the Boml)ay Presidency, is an Inilian Officer of the hi>,'hest and best type.
The late (ieneral Sir William l.ockhart saiil truly of him, durinff his last visit to
Hn^jland, and on the eve of his ileparturi; to tak<; up thi' chief command at Simla,
that thi're was no position of responsihility which Sir Uohert Low was not fitted to fill ;
and (jeneral Lockhart had enjoyed exceptional opportunities of forminj^ an accurate estimate,
for he and (ieneral Low had been associateil for years, and had risen in the Service as
friends and comr.ides in arms.

Born on January 28th, 1S3S, Sir Robert Low founil himself gazetted to a cornetcy
in the tjth Ben^ral Cavalry on .•\uj,'ust 36th, 1S54; so that before he had attained his
sev«!nteenth year he was enrolled amon;; that gallant band of herot's who, under the banner
of "John Comniiny," siivet! India at the time of the Mutiny. His promotion was rapid at first,
for by Septemixr 29th, 1S5.S. he had obtained his lieutenancy, and it was in that rank that
he did duty durinj^ the Campai^^n of 1X57-59, in which he i)layed a conspicuous part at the
siege and captun- of Delhi, siej;e and capture of l.ucknow, and operations in Central India.
So conspicuous was he by his bravery that he was mentioned in I )es|)atch<-'s, and received
th<! thanks of the Government of India in addition to the war medal with clasp. On
January 1st, 1862, he obtained his troop, and next year earned his second war medal in
the l-!usofzai Fxpt-dition. A brevet majority cinu; to him on February 5th, 1872, and
the substantive rank on July 16th, 1875. Promoted Brevet- Lieut. -Colonel February 8th, 1878,
he served as such in the .Afj^han War, 1878 80. He first did duty with the Expedition to
the Bazar Valley, but when .Sir F'rederick Roberts was forming his .Staff for his famous
march fnmi Kabul to Kandahar Lieut. -C.'oloiu;l Low was cho.sen for the res|K)nsible position
of Director of TransiKjrt. How well he discharged his duties the Despatches show. His
reward was a Companionship of the Bath, the medal with clasp, and the bronze decoration.

For the next five years Colonel Low devoted all his energies to perfecting the trans|iort
system, of which he was head. When it was ileciiled to take measures to establish proper
government in Burma, and depose the despot King Tht'b.iw, General Roberts determined to
take his old friend out of his office and give him a comiiiand in the field. On May 29th, 1886,
he was gaz<.'tted a Brigailier-Cii'iicral, and he remained actively emjiloyed for two years,
being fretjuently mentioned in Despatches and receiving a handsome acknowledgment from
the Government of India. F"or his services in Burma he was created a K.C.B. On
March 28th, 1892, he was appointed to the command of a first-class district in India, and it
was whilst so employed that he was selected to conduct the difficult operations in Chitral in 1895.
For that brilliant achievement, which retlected such great credit on British arms, he was
thanked by the Government of India and raised to the dignity of Granil Cross of the Bath.
On November 9th, 1896, he became a Lieut. -General, and, being then eligible for an
Army Corps commanil, he took over his present duties in Bombay on October 28th, 1898, with
the full confidence of all who knew him.

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CE so many of our best-known officers, the distinfiuishcd soldier who is now In command
of the British F.xpwlition to China is the son of a country rector, he having been
born at Little NCKlham, IIsscx, on June 3rcl, 1844. From his earliest years he was
det-irmined to follow the colours, and in due course was jjaze«efl to «"»" Ensigncy in
the 9;,rd Highlanders. This was on [aiuiary 9th, 1863. The regiment was then in India,
anil thence the youn-r subaltern r.riKcedeil. He- had not lonji to wait before crossing
swords with an enemy, as ini":ciii.uely on reportinj,' himself he learnt that the 93rd were
warned for service op tin; North-West I-'rontier, and there he did duty throughout the Second
Kusofzai Expedition, including the forcing of the Umlx;yla Pass. In 1865 he determined to
try his luck in the Inilian .Staff Corps, and, having qualified in the usual way, was gazetted
to his Lieutenancy on October iith, 1S66.

In the capacity of a subaltern he went li'.ough the Abyssinian Hx[K'dition of 1867-68,
being twici; mentioned in despatches, and acMving his stxond medal. The following year
found !,im actively engaged again, diis time against the Hivotis, when he was again brought
to notice in desoatches and 'hanked by the (Government of India. Obtaining his company
January 9th, 1875, he did di.iy with his reginuiit in the jowaki Ex|H'dition, 1877-78, was
again mentioned in despatches, .uid '^ranted a clasp to his Frontier medal. He was still but
a CajJtain when he went throujh the Afgh.ui War of 1879-80. Here having come under the
notice of Sir Frederick Roberts in tlie march from Kabul to Kandahar he was twice mentioned
in despatches, and received the medal with two clasps, the bronze decoration, and the brevet
of Major. His substi-ntive Majority followed on Janu;u-y 9th, 1883. In 1884 he served in
the Zhob Valley Fxi)edition, when he was again mentioned for zeal and ability. On
January 9th, 1889, he was promoti-d Lieut. -Colonel, and in 1891 added further to his reputation
by serving '•' 'he Ha^ara I-!xpedition, being mentioned in des|Kitches and made a C.B. In
1892 he was actively employed in the Isazal Fx[)cditioii.

He had then established f;>i himself such a high character th.it the question arose as
to how he was to l>e recognised. It was determined tt) recommend him for an Aid«-de-Camp-
chip to the Queen, and this honour was conferred up<jn him on Fcbmary ist, 1893, It carrred
with it the rank of Colonel in the Army. In 1894 95 he added to his brilliant record by
serving in t':e Waziristan Expedition. He was for the eighth lime mentioned in despatches
and <>as given ar.other clasp. On December 12th, 1S06, he was selected to tai^e command
of a station in India as Colonel >m the Staff, and it was whilst so employed that his first real
ch;ince cam- in the Frontier troubles of 1S97, when ho was apjioiisted to the command of the
2nd Brigac'e, Tirah I"ield I'orce. He soon showed the qu.ilitios that were in him. and the
reputation he earned for himself was such th.it the late Sir William Lockhart spoke of him
more than tmce as "the h.ero of the war. ' He was highly conmicnded in despatches for his
splendid services, wiis made a K.C.B. , and given the mi;dal with two clasps. On his return
to Intlia he was appointed to the connnand of a .Second Cl.iss District on July 25th, 1898,
with the rank of Brigadier-General, and immediately afterwards was cal!cU to headquarters
at Simla to officiate .is yu.irier- Master-General, which high office he was filling when his
old friend General Sir I'ower I'almer selected him to proceed to China in chief command of
the British Forces. There is, |)erha|)s, no more popular officer in India than Sir Alfred Gaselee,
and, as the details of his service show, there can bt; few with a wider experience of the
difficulties and h.irdships of war. When it Ixxame known that he was to lead the British
relieving force to I'eking many were the a|)plications for employment, for every officer knew
that with .Alfred Gasei^'e at its heiid the column, as it was, would Ix: led straight to victory.

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BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. G. DARTNELL,

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THERE is, perhaps, no man better known in tlie Colony of Natal than Brigadier-
General Joiin Georjje Uarlnell, who for twenty-six years has been Commandant of
the local Mounted Police, which he has raised to a high state of efficiency. Born
at London, Ontario, in 1838, he received his first Comrr.ission as Ensign in the
85th Royal County Down Regiment en July 22nd, 1855, and at once joined headquarters in India.
His name was down for purchase, and when a j.ieutenancy became vacant in November,
1856, he was gazetted to th(; higher rank. The Mutiny broke out in the following year,
and young Dartnel! took the field with the gallant " County Downs."

The regiment was (|uartered in the Bombay Presidency, and thus fou'id itself told .^T
for duty with the Central India I-ield I'orce, under General Sir Hugh Rose, afterwards
Field-Marshal Lord Stnithniirn. Lieutenant Dartnell was present at the storm and capture
of Chundaree, and led the only successful escalade attack on the fortress of Jhansi. He
was severely wounded in the assault, but his heroic conduct was brought to notice in
Desp;>tches. It was hoped that he would be awarded the Victoria Cross, which he fairly
earned ; but some difficulties arose to prevent his being so decorated, and he had to rest
satisfied with the Medal and Clasp, and an official intimation that in recognition of his
brilliant achievement, his name had been noted for special promotion. This soon came, for
on May 13th, 1859, he was appointed to a Company in the 2nd Battalion i6th Regiment,
and joined in England. Service at home was not, however, to his liking, so he effected
an exchange to the 27th Inniskilling Regimeat in 1861, and returned to India, where in
January, 1864, he received the gratifying news that Her Majesty, in consideration of his
distinguished gallantry during the Mutiny, had promoted him to y Brevet-Majority. In the
following year he came again under tire as Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Tombs, V.C.,
in the Bhootan Expedition, including the re-capture of Dewangiri. For this service he was
highly commended and received the IVontier Medal with Clasp.

His progress in the Service seemed then to be assured, but he hankered after a wider field
of enterprise tnan the Army at that time presented, and shortly afterwards sold out and went to
Natal, to take up the position of Chief of the Mounted Police l-'orce, which he was called upon to
organize. As Colonel Commandant of the Natal Volunteers and Mounted Police he was
continually employed during the South African troubles of 1877-78-79, for which he wears the
War Medal. An officer who was closely ;u;sociated with him at that period lias written to a
friend — "of all the capable, self-relitint, brave, and clear-headed soldiers I ever met, I consider
Dartnell out and away the best. His retirement was an irreparable loss to the Army, for having
been trained in an Indian school only, he has none of the littlenesses of the home-made article." It
has been pl.iccu on record many times what Lord C'u.imsford thinks of him, for did he not lead
the left flanking force of his lordship's column from Isandhlwana.

In the present campaign Brigadier-General Dartnell has been indefiitigable. It was to his
wonderful grasp of the situation that Major-General Yule was able to carry through so successfully
the withdrawals from Dundee after Sir Penn Symons had been laid low. In that difficult
operation General Yule relied implicitly on Colonel Dartnell's jud^rnient. On reaching Ladysmith
Dartnell was raised to the rank of Brigadier-General, and pla.-ed in command of the Natal
Volunteers. Of him a Staff Officer wrote during the siege: — " L>artneli, who cevered himself
with credit again during the march from Dundee, is here the life and soul of the camp. It is
scarcely to be wondered at t'at he is so popular, for, as a leader of men, I doubt whether he has
an equal anywhere. This is saying a great deal, but it is not saying too much, as anyone who
knows him will admit."

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F that youiiir officer ever gets his chance lie will Ix; certain to take full advantage of it.
for there is not a better soldier in the Urii^ade of Guards." So said a distinguished
General, once a Guardsm.m. and now alas! no more, on the occasion of an official
inspection of one uf the battalion" of the brii,Mde, of which he was an eye-witness in
the summer of 1880. The young officer referred to was Captain anil \djutant William
Henry Mackinnon, now Colonel Mackinnon. commanding the City of London Imperial
Volunteers in South Africa. And the tlisiinguislu-d vtiter.m h.is l)een proved to Ix: right, as
the constant mention of the "C.I.V.'s" in Lonl Roberts' despatches shows conclusively.

Colonel Mackinnon. though one of the senior officers of his rank in the service, is not
yet fifty years of age. Born December 15th, 185;, the son of an old .md much res(x;cted
ex-Guardsman, he was gazetted to the Grenadier Guards as Hnsign and Lieutenant June 23nd,
1870, and became Lieutenant and Captain August 3rd, 1872. Being an enthusi.istic soldier,
he made up his mind to go in for an Adjutancy, and having obtained his desirt; in luly, 1876,
did Adjutant's duty from that date until January, 1881, when his ailvancemcnt to tne rank of
Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel compelled him to v.icate. He was rot, however, satisfied
with the dull routine of g.irrison life in London and .it Windsor, so in June. 1884, he went
to Malta to act as Military Secretary to the Governor, exchanging those duties in July, 18S5.
for the position of Private Secretary to the Governor of Madras. Having Uicome a regimental
Major, second in command of a battalion, he was recalled to Hngland ;it the enil of 18S6.
On February loth, 1889, he was |)romoted to the rank of Colonel by brev(.'t, and on July 26th,
1893, was chosen to take up the responsil;le duties of Assistant Adjutant-Gener.il of the Home
District. How well he ac(|uitteil himself all are awari> who had ilealings with the Home
District Authorities during the next five years. There was nothing that Colonel Mackinnon
did not know. Always courteous and obliging, always smart ami up to ilate, it was :i hap|)y
period for everybody concerned, for as one i>>i!!fi'>'' to express an opinion has placed on
record — "A better A.A.-G. never donned a staff cap."

From July 25th, 1898, to October 28th, 1899, Colonel Mackinnon, to his great regret,
was relegated to the freedom of the Half P.iy List, but the despatch of the .South African
Field Force rendered vacant once more the offic; of Assistant Adjutant-General, Home District,
and Lord W^ilselc), looking about for someone to fill the ojiening, determine<l to re-apiviint
Colonel Mackinnon, who was so employed when at the beginning of the year the Lord Nlay'>r
raised the corps 01" volunteers who have so g.dlantly upheld the credit of their service in
every action in which they have taken jjart some thirty in all -in South Africa. It would
indeed have been difficult to have found an officer Ix^tter fitt<;d than Colonel Mackinnon to
command a volunteer battalion in any circumstances. l-"or this particular charge he was
pre-eminently qualified, for Ix-sidcs being .m eiithusiastic believer in the military spirit of the
Citizen Army, he took pains, when on the Home District Staff, to study and understand its
organisation. It is no exaggeration to say of him that he was a soldier made for the place.
No wonder when led by such .1 man tin; "C.I.X'.'s" h.-.-e covered themselves with credit.

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SIR BAKER RUSSELL.

AVERY "fine fijjure of a man" is Lieuten,'int-U(..,c::v'. Sir E;-.!:'}' -^'■'•ed Russell,
commanding the Southern District, headquarters Portsmouth, and very conspicuous a1
Southampton Docivs was that fine fi^^ure on scores of inijiortant occasions on which troops
were being shippeil for South Africa in the earlier stages of the War. One can
understand that Sir Baker Russell, like the "hot soldier" he is, and always has been, would
have greatly preferred accompanying the troops to "seeing them off." But he has had his
fair share of hard fighting, and in his own sjrccial line — that of cavalry leading — may well be
C(jntent to let youngi r men have a chance of winning the distinction which lie himself won
well-nigh two decades back.

Sir Baker Creed Russell is the son of the late Capt. the Hun. W. Russell, of Ravensworth,
Australia, and was born in 1837. He entered the Army in 1855 as a Cornet of the Carabiniers,
and was present at Mtierut on that eventful Sunday when the Mutiny first burst into flame. He
served right through the Mutiny with great distinction, taking part in numerous actions, and in
the pursuit of the redoubtable Tantia Topee, and emerging in 1858 with such an e.xcellent record,
that on the earliest opixjrtunity he was given a brevet majority. In 1862 he was transferred to
the 13th Hussars, which he subsequently commanded, and which, under his ri'gitue, became one of
the smartest and best light cavalry regiments in the world. In 1873 Major Russell, as he -.vas then,
accompanied Sir Garnet Wolseley to the Gold Coast in connection with the first Ashanti
Expedition, and won fresh distinction in command of a native corps which he raised, organized,
and led through all the principal actions. In 1879 he again served under Wolseley, this time in
the Zulu campaign, in tne course of which he had charge of the operations against Sekukuni. For
these services he was made a K.C.M.G. and A.D.C. to the Queen.

In 1882 Sir Baker Russell accompanit:d the Expedition to Egypt in command of the 1st
Cavalry Brigade. He led the midnight charge at Kassassin, was present at Tel-el-Kebir, and
took part in the march to and occupation of Cairo, which was carried out by the Cavalry Division
under Drury-Lowe.

In 1886 Sir Baker was for a short time Inspecting Officer of Auxiliary Cavalry, and from
1890 to 1894 was thoroughly in his element as General Officer Commanding the Aldershot Cavalry
Brigade. From 1895 he was in charge of the North Western District, headquarters Chester ;
from 1896 to 1898 he held the important command of the troops in Bengal, and, returning to
England in 1898, was posted to Portsmouth, where he is as popular as he is respected and
admired — which is s;iying a great deal.

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\ janinrv i^uli, if^.S.V w.is liorn tn Miiinr I liiniiltnn, o:n(l (loplnn I li;^'hl;in(lcrs,
tlici) st.uioMc'il at (.'uiAi, a son ami licir, wlm was iiainiil Ian Staiulisli MonU'ith.
In (liif cours<' Majnr ILuniiluii succfcdcd to tiic coninianii of the ijinil Mi,i;hlaiulcrs.
Tiiat was ill 1S65. lor live years lie roiUr at the luail ol his rf^inicnt, which he
took to Iiulia cirly in i.soM. Rcturnini; to l'!iiL;laii(l, or r.itlicr Scotlaiiil. on
ri-tircni(.Mit in iSfx), his son Ian, he fouiul. hail n'solvcd to follow in his footsteps, .mcl so it
was iltciileil that he slwriilil join thi' (lorilons. whirh he iliil on Sr|iiinil(er 24th. 1872,
.IS a Siil>-I,ieutenant, li.ixinL; spent the si\ pri'iedini; months on the estahlishiiieiil of the
iJth P'oot. It w.is not loiii; 1m fore promotion reaihed him. as he Ixcjiiiie l.ieuten.ini
April 24th, iS;,^ His lirst regiment. d e\p<rienie w.is in Indi.i, ami it was there ht; was
serxin.i; when tlu' Al^^han War lirok<' out in |S;S, ,md called him into the field, his
earliest experience of the din of war heinjj in the action of (.'harasiah, on Octolier f>th. 1.S79,
when he so distinijuislied himself as to earn a nii-ntion in Despatches. In I )i'CCiiilH'r
foilowinj,', the troulijes occurred in the neij^hlMJiirhood of Kalml. In these Lieutenant Hamilton
l)ore his |),u-t so well that he was .iv;,iin mentioned and w.is sul>se(|U'ntl\- d-'Corated with the
.Afghan Sledal and cl.isp. He unfortiin.iicly missed thi' K.dml K.uni.ih.ir m.ircli, in which
the Qjiul I li'.4hl.uidirs won such renown, Iml he accomjianied the ret^iment from liidi.i to
.South Africa for liie Boer War of i.SSi. and w.is severe!) woumletl, .tnd for the tliir»l time
mentioned.

Beconiinyf Cajittun I'ehruary J^th i.'sSj. he joinccl the .St.ilT of .Sir I'Vederick KoIktIs.
then Comm.nidir-in-Chief of M.idr.is, as .\ide de-Camp, |H'rformin;4 the duties of this
ap|)oiinmeni until i.'^.S,, when he went to the ist li.iii.dion (jordon Ili),;hlaiiders, in the
.Soudan, in order th.it he nii^iht see ser\ic<- in the Nile I!\p< dition. lie wis employed as
Captain of tin- Ciu.ird to tile l.iie M.iiort l-iur.d M.irle, ( (immandinLr the River Column, and
was prcjt'nt at the action of Kirliek.in. in whiili ih.it poptil.ir Cieni-r.il fell mortally womuled
In recoj^'nitioii of his si-r\ices he w.is m<ntioned in I )esp,iti lies, jMomoted to a HrevetM.ijority
and recei\'ed the Medal witii two cLi^-ps. and Khedive's Star. Cioini,' hack to Indi.i h<' wa--
re-posted to .Sir I'rederick Koherts' .St. iff as .\ide-de-Caiiiji. Oil March yth, i.S.Sf), .Sir i'rederick
ha\inj4 now become Comm.inderin-Chief at .SimI 1, the Huriiiese (expedition took him durin<^
the lollowini; cold season to that province. .Major H.imilton accomp.inied his chief ami
rendered such v.iiuahle assistance ih.it he w.is ineiitioneil in Di sp.itches, promotei! Brevet
Lieut. -Colonel. ,ind decor.ited with the W.ir Med.il and d.isp.

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()i\ Jul) 1st. i.S(/i) ,111 im|iortant .i|ipointmeni U'Linie \.icant on the .Siml.i .Staff -that
ol Chief .Musketry < )lticer Lieut. -Colonil Hamilton w.is at hand; he w.is .1 musketr)
enthusiast ; it w.is offere.l to liini .mil at once accented, with, as all know now, the l)esi
sible results, so far .is tlu' muskeirv erticiericv of tne .Armv in Indi.i is concerned.

possiijie resul

He out. lined the r.iiik of Colonel. November i.S'li. 1 <*<>; 1 , and on .\pril Sth, iS.j;, became
Milit.'iry .Sixret.iry to Ijener.i. .Sir Cii-or^'e White, who hail sucieeded l.ord Roberts in the
Indian comm.md. This did not prevent his seeintj active service with the (hitr.il L.\pedition
under -Sir Robert Low, in i.S.)i. whiii he acted .is .\ssist.int .Xdjutant (JiMriermasier-t ieneral
on the lines of comniiMiii .ition. lie w.is mentioned in I)<'spatclies and received a C.B. and
the- Medal with cl.isji. < )ii the terniin.itioi. of hostilities he was ^;iveii the ap|M)iniment ol
Deputy Adjut.iiit-Ciener.il in Indi.i. In the o|ier.itions on tin- North-West Irontier of India
in 1S97 9.S, he was once more to the fore doiii:^ diit) with the Tir.ili I'ielil L'tircc for some
time in command of a Brig.ide

Liarl) in I1S9S In- was olteriil the post of Conim.indant of the .School of .Musketry,
Hythe, the duties of which he assumed on M.iy nth. lie held the posi until he embarked
for Natal with hi-, old chief, .Sir Cieor;,'e White, in .Se|)ti inber. \X<)<). in time to take part
in liie sie;.4e of Ladys.nith. TIk- reputation Inr tn.ide for himself in the li;.;lltin;,' at Klands
L.iajrte was such that Lord Roberts lost no lime in providing for him directly iie was
available, .is Lieut. -(ieneral in conimaiul of a Division of .Mounted Infantry.

Since then scarcely .1 Despatch has ap|)eared without some reference to Ian Hamilton
.-.nd his work. He and his troops have iM'cn ubi(|uitous, and it may safely be predicted that
when the honours for the war are distributed this dashiiij.; commander will be rewarded as
he deserves to be, for he certainh' m.iy be considered one of the most jiroininent herot-s
of the war.

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LiEUT.-Coi,oNKi. F. L. LESSARD.

THI*; Canadian troops of all arms li,i\c niul'riil valual)l<' siTvicc in South Africa
since tlu: l)"i,'inniri^' of tln' year. Anion;,' thi; officers wiiose names have been
foremost in connection with the conlin^tMit ilespalcheil l>y the Dominion to take
part in the war. tliat of l.ieut.-Coloiirl l'rani;ois Louis Lessard stand prominently
forward. He was Ijorn in Oueiiec- on Dec-nilxr gth, 1S51), and joined tile Canadian
Militia as ind Lieutenant of Carrison .Artillery n iS.So. I-Dur years later he applied for
and obtained tr.uisfer to the Cav.dry as Lirutenain, ami w.is posted to tin- Royal ("anadian
I)raj,'oons, one of the sm.irti'it anil best of loial ri';,'inicnts. In the Kii! kebellion of 1SS5
he )^r<-atly distin;4uished himself. Lieut. -(iencral Sir I'n'ilerii k Middleion having' l>rou;,dit
his name to notice in Desp.iiches in a way whiili .it once est.iblish( d his repuiatimi. He
received the .Medal with clasp inscribed " .Saskatcliew.ni " j^raiited for the war, and was noted
for special service.

Colonel Lessjird was selected to visit l'!ni,dand during; the Jubilee celebrations . f iS()7,
when hf! was decorated with the Oiicen's Medal. When it was decideil to raise a 1 ntingi'iit
of Canadians for activ<' service a^^.iinst the Horrs, he was one of the first to volunteer, and was
chosen to proceed to the Cape as Command, int of the ist .Mounted Rilles, a corjjs formed
almost exclusivtfly from anions thi! nuiiibcrs of the Kn\,il C'anadian Drai^oons. This
biUtalion has clone admir.d)le work, .uul h.is more than once been comniended by Lord
kolH-rts.

Of Colonel Less ird a Staff OftuiT vvrote lat''ly from the Cajje. " Lessard has his
regiment in excellent workin;,' oriler. it is a ple.isure to be associ.ited with him and with
them. They strike one .is being evervthing th.it one would ilesire Colonial Cavalry to be —
goiKJ fillers, first ratir shots, horse nia.stirs. ,md well disci|ilined lot of sti/rliiii; i;o<id fellows.
An order issued to them is an order which (■vervoiic knows will be obeyed cheiTJully and
to the letter. Alw.iys re.uls for work, and e(|iially r'.idy for play, nothing,' seems to upset
them. What they do (vx:\ the loss of is tob.icco ; given that in plentiful supply, and all die
other priv.itions of c.im|taigning .ire as nothing to them. IJut it 11. is to be remembered that
they are on the fii'ld hen- under the le.idership of a soldier born. 1 ii(;ver remember 10
have come across a better 'oinmandiiig officer than Colonel Lessard. Blessed with a quick
eye and complete knowleilge of all details of Cavalry drill, and administration, he has his
regiment in the palm of his h.iiul. Ijriice his mi;n always turn up smiling, and horses
tit for any rough work. It would be well for us if wi' hail in our Cavalry of the Line
ni.iny officers of the st.imp of this gallant Can.idi.ui Dr.igoon." 'I'he officer who wrote thus
was one of our best known C.ivalry le.iders, .1 111. in whose opinion is worth recordin.;-.

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Itiin^r ilcstiiiril lor .111 liulian imh-it, Iv j'ra'lii.ited .it .\ililisroinl), .iiul on Sfptrinixr

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ilid iliity ill till' .utioiiH of lloliiiuUhur. Allyyhiir. .iiul .\^;r.i, relief..! I.iuknow liy I.onl <"ly»le,
li.itlle of ('iwnitore. ilfiiis ,it .Ser,ii,;li.it .mil Khoil.ij^Mii'^e, .uul sii'^e .tiiil c.iptiire ot I.iuknow
severely woiiiiiled, .uul two horses shot iiiuler him anil .iciioii of K.ino<le. He w.e.
still l)iit a siili.iltern when the war emleil ; he h.ul, however, the s.uisf.iction of re.ulinn h's
name in miny Despatches, wis th.inke.l hy tlv (iovernor (leiieral of liulia in (!oiiiuil. noted
lor promotion to .1 jireM iM.ij.irity, .md received the \ictoria Cross and llu- W'.ir Med.d

with three cl.lsps.

ihe \'ictori,i Cross w.is .iw.irded for the followin.,' act of ilisiin;.;iiislied j,'.dl.intry as
recorded ill the /.oiiil'ii tiiiulli-: " l.ieiiten.mt (ioiyli, when in coiiim.ind of .1 p.irty i»f
■ Hudson's Horse' iie.ir .Muml'.r^li. on N'oveiiilx-r lith. 1.S57 particularly distinguished
himself l.y his forw.ird iMMriii;^ in charj;iiiy; .icross a sw.imp. .tnd c.iptiirin^ two j^uns,
althoiiu'h liefended liv a v.istly sii[vTior lunly of the etiemy. ( )n this iHC.ision he h.id hi»
horse woiiiided in two pl.ices and his tiirli.in cut throiii,'h liy sw.inl cuts whilst en^;a).jed in
comli.it with three Sepo\s. I.ieuten.iiit Ciou;;h .iKo i.une prominently under notice iie.ir
lell.il.ili.ul. I.uckii.iw, on I'eljrii.iry Jith. 1S5.S, hy sh.iwiii;.; a lirilli.ini ex.imple to his rej^riinent
when ordered to cImi-mc ihe enemy's ;,'iins. (Ill this ..ci.ision he eii^a^;ed himself in a serieH
of sin^^le comti.its. until .it leii'^^ih he w.is dis.dil.il I.n .1 imiskei h.ill ihrou;_;h the ley whilst
char;,'in;,f two Sepoys with li.i) oiiets,'

< Mit.iiiiiiv^' his Caiii.uiuy J.mii.iry 4ih. i.S*)i, he w.is .it oiu e jironioted to his Hrev«-t-
Majority, .md on May 16th, iS()5, w.is .ip|)oiiued to the Heiii^al St, iff Corps. He comni.inded
the 1 Jth Heuijal C.ivalry in the .Miyssini.m I^Npeditioii under l.ieut.-( iener.il Sir K'.licrt
Napier in 1S6S. hein:,' |ireseiit .it thi- i.ipture of \I i.;i|,il.i. i'lir this service he was nu-ntioned
in I 'esp.itches, and rinived ,1 C.n. .mil tlie W.ir Ml d,il. On .M.irch .^otli, i.S6c), he wiis
pronioteil to the I'ri vei r.iiik of 1, ieut. -Colonel, , uul on <)itolier ist, 1S77, iMe.ime .1 Itrevet-
Coloiiel. in the l.itter rank he took tlu' liel.l in iS7,S for the .\l;;h.in (.°.inip.ii).,'n. His first
comm.iiid W.IS that of the C.ivalry of the Kiinim I-One, in which c.ip.icity he was present
.It Sir j-'rederick Koherts' Ijrilli.int action .11 IN iw.ir Kot.il, in the pursuit of the .\fi,jh,ins
over the Shul.ir^ardan. in the .iffair in the .Mai.i;ior I'ass. and diirini,' the o|M-rations in
Khost. Raised to the i.ink of lirit;,idier-(ieneral of Coniniiinications he t<H)k part in the

difticult opcT.itions .ipumd Kahiil in the winter 1S7Q-S0, ' ■•■ •'•■ ' " ••• -

accom]iaiiied .Sir I'rederick Koherts in his historic ni.irch from

comm.iiided the C.ivalry ltri;,'.ide. He W.IS present at thi

conn

received the K.('.M., the W'.ir Med.il with four cl.isps .iiid the Hron/.e Decoration. Me was

appoinieil to the command of a Second Class District in India, with the rank of Uriyadier-

CJeneral on .March 2'xh, 1SS4, and on promotion as M.ijor-tieiier.il l''el)rii.iry 6th, 1SS7,

was atlvanced to a l-'irst Class District. lie hecame a Lieut. -(jeneral June i.^h, iSgi, and

a t'icneral .M.iy 16th. i^ic;.). He vacate.l his Indian command March 31st, iSc^j, since

which time he has held no military eni|)lovineiit, hut on the death, two ye.irs aj,'o, of

Lieut. -(jeneral .Sir I'rederick Middleton, K.< .M.(i., Her M,ijesty selected him for thi;

])Obition of Keejjer of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.

md in the lollowiny year

K.iliul to K.md.ih.ir. when lie

reco:ui.iiss,»nc«' of .Au^^ust .;ist, in

iiin.iiKieo me < ,i\.iiry i)ri;,'.uie. lie w.is preseiu ai me reco!ui.iiss,inc«r 01 .Mi^usi iisi, 111
iimaiid of the troops en;^.i'.;cd. and in the pursuit of the followinj,' day. Cieneral KolxTts
niioned his 11. mv over .md over a'.'.iin in Desp.itches, ,iiid as the rew.ird of his s.-rvices he
eived the K.('.M., the W'.ir .Med.il with four cl.isps .iiid the Hron/.e Decoration. He was

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GENERAL E. F. CHAPMAN, C.B.

Till''. Incli.m Ariillrrs ni " Jnhii ( iiin|,.iin s ' i|,i\ -, imMliKci vimr ilistiii;,'iiiHlic(l soldiers.
Amiiiii^si ilicm w.is (iiiur.il I'.iKn.ihI Iimih is ( 'li,i|iin,m. I<cirii \(>\cinl)ir 14th, 1.S40,
this vi'illi'iii OlVurr joimd ihr It( i|.^,il Artilliis .is ,1 jikI l.icutiii.int, June uth, 1S5S.
Iliiri>rtiiii.ii(l\, he liiiidrd ill Indi.i tun i;iti' In |),irliri|):it<! ill the ;.;iiirii's i>( tlu-
Miiliii) (';im|).ii;.^ii. This w.is a j,'r' .it dis.i|>iiuiiitmcm to liiiu, the inuri' so as ill luck IuIIdwciI
for t«-ii yi-ars. Il.irly in liis iMncr, liuwcvir, his ai)ilitics wfrc n.-ioMniscd, for no less at)
aiitlioritv th.m Lord KolxTts, pndi nd that Ciiapinaii would "miki' his mark." it was
iiriiu'ip.illy iliK-, no douhi, lo I. Did kolnris' iiillurmi' th.it tin' yoiiihl'iil (iuiiiK.T was si-It'iKjci
III i.S'iS to t.iki' nut tu .\li)ssliiia li H.iitrry Moiiiiiid ( Jrdii.mcf from iCn^^l.ind, to join thr
I', .xpt'dition iiiidiT Sir Kolirrt N.ipicr, tlirn Ixin.; or^.inisrd In Moinhay. So coiispiiiiuiis was
l.ifiitin.mt Ch.ipni.iii on l.indiii^, lii.ii ltri;^.idiir-( itniT.ii i'ltric, l.'oininandiiiL; the .\rtillory,
.ippoinii'd hiiM to his Si.itl ,is Aid'' di- ( amp, and it was in that capai ity hi' w.is prt'st.'iit at
thr ,\i'tion ol .Anv^ci' .md Tali <i\ M,iv,'dala. I'or his scrvicrs he was iiu'iitioiird in Despatches,
■nut rcceivei! the War MeiJal.

It W.IS not until Jami ii'\ jist, 1S7J, that \\r olitained the rank of Captain in the Royal
Ri'Vjinient of .\rtillery, hut he had previousl) passi'd through tlu' St, iff College, and thus it
came alHuit th.it Iv w.is on M.uth loth, 1.S71. ;^r,i/,.[ted to the .Staff in lndi,i as a 1 )eputy-
.\ssist.int tJii.irterM.ister-(iener,il. The duties of th.it office he filled with marked aliility
until !)eceiiil«'r ,vuh, 1.S7'), when he w.is r,iised lo till' dii^nity of an .Assistant (Juarter-
M.ister ( iener.d. The lire.ik out of the Al'4h,in W'.ir lound him so employed. lie was at
nine selected for service, .iild look ihe liejd ,is I )ipul\ Adjul.int and (_)u,irter-Master-(ieneral
of the (ihu/nee .md Northern Af'.;li.inist.in lield l'"ori<s. ai.l was present in the important
eii;jaj^emi'nt of .Ahmed Kheyl, lor whiih he received ,1 most ll.itteriii;,,' mention in |)espatches.
Later on he .ucomp.inied .Sir l-'rederick Koherts in the in.irch from K.ihul to Kandahar,
iK'ini; present at the Uiitli- of .Septemher 1st, i.S.Si. lie «,is ai^^ain honour,il)ly mentioned in
I )es|iatchcs, W.is |>romoted to .1 llrevet l.ieut.ColoneK \ , ,uid received .1 CH., the W'.ir Medal
with two cl.isps. ,ind the Itnui/e I )ecor.ilion.

On returning; to Indi.i, he hecmie I'irst .\ssist,int-(Ju.irtL'r-M,ister-('ieneral at Head-
• [iLirters, e.\ch.in;,'in^,' those duties j.inu.iry Jisi. |.S,S|, fir the responsiiije pnsitiun of Military
Secret. iry to the ('omm.inderin-Chief, ( leneral Sir Don.ild .Stewart. It was representeil ljy the
latter revered oftiier th.it l.ieuteii.uit (dlonel ("h.ipman ili'served some special recoi,'nition, soon
I)ecemlier Jts», i.SSi, he h.id the i,jratitication of findinj; himself <ia/.etted an .Aide-ile-Canip
to th«' (Jiieen. and Colonel in thi' .\rmy. On .Xovemher ;4th, 1S.S5, he was appointed
(Jii.irt«'r-M.ister-( iener.d in Indi.i. .md in the f illow in;.; winter proce( (led lo Hurma in
i(inne(tion with the C.imp.ii',,'n in th.it (|u.irter. I'Dr his services he w,is aft<rw.irds decorated
with the Med.il .md cl.isp. Comiiv^ lo I''n:;l.ind, on N.icatin;^ the (Juarti'r-Master-( ieniralslii|),
l''el)rii.irv JJiid, |S.S(), he hec.ime ,1 M.iinrt .eneral Sejip inher .;oth, 1 S.Si), and on April 1st,
iS(>i, took up tluty .It the War Olliie ,is I )irei K.r olMilii,ir\ IntelliL^cnce, which office he held
for the full p<-rioil of live years, lie w.is |iromoted l.ieiilenaiU-( icner.il, Hecemher l.Uh, 1S9J,

and Cieneral, .March i.sth. i*<i('), anc' ' ■" ■ ' "'■ '^ ' '■ ' " ' '' '

Troops in .Scotland, where he is reco|,rnisei
judgment and indejx'nilence ol character

siin-e May (ith, 1.S9'), has heen in ^"ommand of the
I as an ahle .idministrator iunl an officer of

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LIEUT.-GENERAL H. J. T. HILDYARD, C.B.

IKUT.-fiENHRAL HIl-DYARD is well known as a formc-r Commandant at the Staff
College, Canihcrlcy, an institution whiili he ilid niiicli to n-form and imi)rovc. He
has ever devoted his best energies to his profession, aiul is one ot those

progressive

views on

nas ever cievoteii nis oest energii's lo uis (jroie>:>niii, .imi i.-> <>ii^- "i iiiw^v. piv^j^iv-^aLv,
soldiers who keep a close e\e on all that goes on in Cosiiinental armies, holding strong
the subject of insularisni, and liie dangers which may accrue therefrom.

General Hildyard was born July 5th, 1S46, and was originally destined for the Royal Navy,
with which he served from Se|)"temlx'r 13th, 'Ssc^. to Novemlxr J8th, 1864. when he w;is
gazetted to an Einsigncy in the 12th Regiment. Transferred on May ist, 1867, to the
;ist Highland Kight infantry, his Lieut(Miancy came to him on SejUemU'r i6th, 1868. He at
once took up the duties of .Adjutant, which he disch.irged until SeptemlxT 30th, 1875. He
resigned this appointment in order to join the .Staff College, which he entered in February, 1876,
and passed from at the <nd of 1.S77, On October iSth, 1S78, he was promoted to his Comj-Mny
in the Highl.uid Light Infantry, ami on .August 6th, iS;;S, received his first staff ap|Mjintment as
brigade Niajor at Cyprus, exchanging that |x-.sition .November j;th, iSjS for a similar one at
(iibraltar, where he was stationed wh-.e the difficulty .irose in I\g>pt in the summer of 1882,
and necessitated the despatch ol ihe I'l.xpedition under (ieneral .Sir ( i.irnet W'olseley. Captain
Hildyard had obtainid his Majority on .May f)th, iS.S^, ami it was in that r.ink he t(K)k the
field as a I)e()uty .Assistant .Adjutant and Ouartermaster-t Ieneral, ist Division. He was
present in the engagements at Ivl-Magfar and Tel-el-Mahuta, at the action at Kassassin on
Sept<;mber <)th, and at tile i>.utle of Tel-ei-Kebir ; was mentioned in I despatches in the highest
terms for ze.il and abilitv, and, besides the medal with clasp, .ind bronze star, was promoted to a
nre\et Lieut, -Colonel, .uul decor.itt;d with the 4th CliLss of the Osmanieh.

The war over, Lieut. -Colonel Hildyard returned to his staff .ijjpointment at Gibraltar, which
he retained until August, 1883. His reputation, however, now stoml so high that it was deciilcd
to bring him on to the Headquarters .Staff of the .Army as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-Cjeneral.
He was gazetted from December c;th, i.SS;,,aiid rem.iiniil at the H(trse (juards until March 31st,
1SS9, doing much valuable work. He had obtained the Hrevet rank of Colonel on November
i8th, 18S6, but, being still a Major regimeiitally when his connection with ihr. Horse tiuards
ceased, he was promoteil a substantive Lieut. -Colonel on lialf-p.iy on M.iy 6th, 1889, and on October
7th following went U> Aldershot as Assistant .Adjutantt ieneral with the substantive rank of Colonel
in the Army. .A \acancy having occurred for an .Assist. uit ,Adjut.uit-( ieneral at Headtjuarters,
Colonel Hildyard returned there on April 1st, 1S91. On August 12th, 1S93, he was selected for
the .ippointment of Commandant of the .Staff College, and on I'ebru.iry 25th, 1898, was
transferred to Aldershot, with the rank rif Major-General, to comm.uid an Infantry Brigade.
vVhen it was resolved to send the .Army Corjjs lo Soutli .Alrica l.ist year, under General Sir
Redvers Huller. Major-( ieneral Hildyard was one of th<- lirst officers to whom the intimation w;is
made that he hail been chosen for thi- command of a Hrigaile. He left I'inglandon October 9th
and landed at Cape Town at the' head of the .'iid Urigade, 1st Division, umler Lord Methuen.
Sir Ketlvers HjIIor having determined to proceed tt) Natal, (ieneral Hildyard wits selected to
embark " .'iH the Divis.'on under command of Lieut.-(jeneral Sir Francis Clery. On
.Ajiril ^6th, 1900, he .ucceeded Lieut. (ieneral Sir Charles W.irreii in command of the
Sth Division, He has played a leading part in all the principal operation^ on the Natal
siiK-, and has several times been mentioned for good work done.

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LIEUT.-COLONEL H. P. AIREY. D.S.O.

LIEUT.-COLONEF. AIREY, D.S.O,, has done as much as any living man in tha
Austr.ilian Coknies to advance ih-j interests of Imperial Federation, which movement
has made such great headway iluring the last twenty years. Colonel Airey thoroughly
recognised the advantages which the Colonies gain by their connection with the Mother
Country. In no respect is it more important, of course, than that a proper understand-
ing should exist as to the relative responsibilities of all parties under the head of defence. It is
due to officers of the stamp of Colonel ."Xirey that the lines have been laid down of a system
which promises to produce th. best effects, so far as both home and colonial interests are
concerned— a system the fundamental jiriiiciples of which are mutual help, mutual sympathy
anil mutual confidence.

Born in Yorkshire on August 3rd, 1844, the son of Captain Henry C. Airey, of the
29th Regiment, Henry I'ark .Airey was gazetttnl to an Iinsigncy in the loist Royal Bengal
Fusiliers, now the ist Battalion Roy.il Munster l''usiliers, before he had reached his seventeenth
year. He at once proceeded to India, and there saw the new unit added to the Establish-
ment of Her Majesty's Infantry of the Line, on the amalgamation of the Queen's and
"John Company's" armies in 1861-62. He served for five years in India, and, having
tietermined to retire and settle in Australia as a sugar planter, was induced in 1877 to
accept a commission as Lieutenant in the .\ew .South Wales Artillery, In 1885, when the
Colony resolved 10 send a contingent of her troo|)s on active service to the Soudan, Captain
Airey accompanieil it. He serveil in the atlvance on Tamai, where he came under notice
for his excellent (|ualities as a leatler. For this cani[)aign he wears the war medal and clasp
and Khedive's star. In 18S6 hi' proceeded to Burma as a Special Service Officer, and did
duty in the field throughout the cold season, lieing severely wounded in action. He was
honourably mentio'ied in Despatches by thi; Government of India, and also in official
Des|)atches published in the London (.iazctte, -September 2nd, 1887; received the medal with
clasp, the Distinguished Service- Oriler, and was promoted to a Brevet- Majority for distinguished
conduct in face of the ene-ny. In 189V 94 .Major Airey showed his interest in his military
duties by atteniling the .Artillery and Cavalry Camjis in Northern India.

When the Australi.ui Colonies resolved to serul a force into the field in .South Africa,
Lieut. -Colonel .Airey, who was promoted to the conunand of a Brigade Division of the
Permanent Artillery in .\ew South Wales on September 14th, 1S95, was at once chosen to
take command of a battalion of 500 men — half of the total foi e which the combined
Australi.ui Colonies ha\e supplied in the slia|)e of a Bushmen's Corps. The work the corps
under his comm.md has accomplished has been in the highest degree creditable, alike to the
commandant and those executing his orders ; anil when the war comes finally to an end and
the ijuestion of rewards has to be considered it may reasonably be predicted that some
hand.some acknowledgment will be reserved for this intrepid and popular le.idei

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LIEUT-GENERAL SIR FRANCIS CLERY,

K.C.B.

TIIK name of I.ieut.-G(-nLr.il Sir Cornelius Francis Clery is best known as the
author of a standaril work on Tactics, a work which has long been accc;>tecl as
a te> t-book 1)V our own military authorities, and is so well thou^jht of that it has
l)e( .1 translateil into at least four foreign lanjruages Like so many of our o'her
more pronunent sons of Mars, Sir IVancis Ck.y is an Irishman, his family havinjj for
gencraticns bt;en settled in the pictures(iue county of Cork. It was there that the subject
of our sketch was born on February 13th, 1838. F:arly mi life he (icveloped stron^r military
instincts, and so it was resolved that he should become a soldier. Thus, on March 5th, 1858,
he was {razetted to an Ensigncy in a reL;iment whose distin(,'uished services duri.ijj the
Indian Mutiny had earned for it a world-wide repatation— tiie 32nd I-ig'^t Infantry--
obtainin;4 his Lieutenancy June 5th, 1S59. Younj; Clery was Adjutant of his rejjiment
from NovemlxT sth, 1S61, to January 15th, 1866, when promotion to a Comjwiny dis-
qualilied him for retaininjj a position which he had helil with the utmost credit. Ciood
soldier thouj^h he had shown himself to 1h', h(; seemed almost to despair of Jjettinyj a l(X)k
in on service; but he went to the Staff Colle}j;e in 1869, and passing out at the end of 1870
rriade such a record th.it he was at once appointed an Instructor of T.ictics ;t the Royal
Military College, taking up his duties nn January 27th. 1871. and e.xchanging them on
.SepteMilnr 4th, I.S72, for those of I'loiissor, which imjiortant chair he filled un'il M;»y 23rd,
1875. He then |>roceedeil to Ireland as Deputy Assistant .Adjutant and (>uarlermaster-
Gener.ii 01 the Heaikjuarters Staff at Dublin, and on Ai)ril 5th, 187;. was transferred to
Aldersho' in the same capacity. On May 31st, 187S, he proceeded on Special Service to
South Africa, and in the following year, with twenty-one years' service, received his baptism
of fire in the Zulu War. He wa« present at the engagement at Is.indhlwana and battle of
Ulundi. his reward being a splcTidid mention in I)esp,uches, the Hrevet of Lieut. Colonel
and lie med;',l with clasp.

On the organizing of thtr l-'gyptian l''x|)ediiion.iry F'orce in 1SS2 Lieut. -Colonel Clery
was provided for as Hrigadc .Major at .Mcxandria, and nn the close of (i[K,T.itions was raised
to the status of .\ssisiant Adjutant and Ouarlt-rniaster-( iiner.il of liie Army of Occupation.
But his position during th'; w ir ag.iiusi .\rabi gave him few op|K)rtunities. Hence the medal
and Khedive's star constituted his only recognition.

When th<' late .Sir tJeraUl
Cijionel Clery accomp,uii(;d him
hardly-contest<-d engagements of
honourably mentioned, promoted
besides g<.'tting two clasps to his
Nil'- I^.\p(;dition, and on Maich

I-I.xpetlition of 1884
was pres(;nt in the

Ciraham set mit for the .Soudan
IS .Assistant .\djutant-(iener;d, and

Fl-'I\;b and Tamai. Ai the close he fourul himself
to the Hrevet rank of Colonel and created a C.B,,
war medal In the following year he served with the
4th, 18S6, was created Chief of tlie .Staff of th<' .Army

of Occui)ation with the rank of Hrigadier-(i<Mieral. He finally left Cairo at the end of 1887,
and on August i tth 1888, w.is gazetted Commandant of the .Staff College, retaining that
post for five years. December 20th, 1894, s;iw him promoted a Major-General ; on
January 25th, 1895, he joineil at Aldershot jus Major-General commanding ;m Infantry
Brigade; on March 13th he was transferred to the Headquarters Staff of the Army as
Deputy Adjutant-! ieneral of the Forces; and on Octolx!r 9th, 1899, he sjiiled for .South Africa
as Lieut. -General Commanding the 2nd Division of the Field Force, with the rank of
Lieut.-General, which commaiui he has held ever since. It is no secret that Sir Redvers
Buller entertains th(! highest opinion of .Sir Francis Clery's fighting qualities ; and it is in
A large mea.sure due to his go<jd advice that the field force in Natal has been able quietly
but surely to force the Boers back from tx)sitions which at one moment it seemed almost
hopeless for us ever to think of occupyi ig, s>) unsurmountable tlid the geographical tiifSculties
appear.

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MAJOR-GENERAL E. T. H. HUTTON, C.B.

Ol- the; many distinguished soldiers wlio have been trained in the Kiiijr's Royal Rifles
"Curly Hutton" is by no means the least known. He is essentially a man of
action. With a wonderful cajiacity for ori;anization, ),freat enerj^y, an a<jreeable
presenc(' and tharminj,' manners, it is not to be wondered at that he succeeds in
most thinj^s he takes in hand.

Major-Cieneral lulwanl '{"homas Henry Hutton was born December 6th, 1S48, and
joined the 60th Kin),''s Royal Rillcs as Knsijjn Aujjust 9th, 1.S67, becominjr Lieutenant
Aujjust 9th, iS^r, instructor of Musketry l'el)ruary ist. iS;.^, and Adjutant June loth, 1H74.
The latter apijointment he held until May iSth, 1S77. His first war experience was j;ained
with the 3rd Battalion of his re;,'iment in Zululand in 1879, when he was present at the
action of fJinjjindlovu ami relief of Kkowt,-. He afterwards served as Aide-tle-Camp to
Major-C.eneral North Crealock, C.H.. until the end of the war, and was dt;corated with the
meilal with clas|). Havini,' obtaineil his Compiiny on July 14th. 1879, he entered for the
Staff College, passed the necessary examination in September, 1879, and stuilietl at Camberley
durin;,' iSSo 81, leavinj;, however, in time to do duty with Harrow's Mounted Infantry in the
first HtMT War. In the Kijyptian Campaign, 1882, hi- .icted at first as Aide-de-Camp to
Major-Cieneral Sir Archiliald Alison at Alexandria. He was afterw.irds told off to raise a
Mounted Infantry Corjis, which he diil with wontlerful smartness. He was at the reconnaissance
in force from Alex.mdria on Auijust 5th, and at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, and was
mentioned in I)es[)atches in very fiaiterini^ terms; was ])romoted to a Brevet majority,
received the nu^dal v/ith clasp, the 4th Class (;•' the Medjitlie and Khedive's star. On August
19th, 1883, lu; went to Aldershot as a Brigaile Major, and was so employed until June 12th,
1884, when the Nile Kxpedition took him back to I'-gypt ■■':.■• Deputy Assistant Adjutant and
Quarterm.ister-Cicneral. He raised the 1st and 2nd Battalions Mounted Infantry and was
for sonw time commamiant of the corps. .So highly were his services thought of that he
was apixiinted to .Aldershot as De|)uty Assistant Adjutant-Gen(;ral on October 1st, 1887, with
the view of introducing a proper system of training for Mounted Infantry, and he remained
at the head of the school which he established until August 31st, 1892. He had been
promoted to the rank of Lieut. -Colonel May 29th, 1889, and in recognition of his valuable
services he was on Decemlxir 21st, 1892, appointed an Aiile-de-Camp to the Queen, with the
rank of Colonel in the Army.

Karly in 1893 thv. (iovernment of New South W.iles applied to the home authorities
to provide them with a command.uit for their local forces of recognised organizing capacity.
The appointment was offered to and accepted by Colonel Hutton, who went out in April
with tne rank of Major-Ceneral. He held the post for three years, and during that period
laid the foundation of a system which promises to last for all time as the basis of local land
defence. Leaving the colony with the respect of all classes, he was not long on his return
to England in finding fre;h employment, for on November 26th, 1896, he was posted to the
Dublin District as Assistant Adjiitant-Ceneral, and on May ist, 1897, was transferred to the
Curragh Camp. In the spring of 1S98 the appointment of General Ofticer Commanding the
Canadian Dominion Militia became vacant, and CoKinel Hutton was again ingled out for
special duty. He arrived at Ottawa i August, 1898, and remained until March of this ye;.
(1900), when he proceeded to South Africa, and on landing at Cape Town was at o.ice put
in Orders by Lord Roberts to take command of the ist Brigade of Mounted Infantry, with
the rank of Major-General. Since then the work he has done has been invaluable ; for
scarcely any important movement has taken place in the Orange State and Transvaal without
Mutton's Mounted Infantry being well to the fore.

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C{D SALI.illURY miiy will Ik- pmud of his solilicr son, for tlv-rc are few ofTictrs of
the Briijatle of Gua.Js of his n^r and srrviin' who have had a wiiliT fxpcrii'iico, and
noiu; who are more universally popular. Lord lUlward lltrh'Tt Cecil was born on
July iJlh, 1S67, and obtained his Secoml laeutcnancy in tile (irenadier Guards on
April 30th, 1S87. Alter doini; reL,'inuMital duty for four years, durinjr which lime there was
no youn':^ officer more p.iiiisiakin:^ than himself, l.ord Hil ,ard joined the Staff of Field
Marshal Lord Wolseli'y, Commandinv; the [-"orces in Ireland, as Aide-de-Camp, on April
;,oth, 1S91. On March i')th, iSq.'. he obtained his l.i<-utenancy, and on November i6th
following left his l(,rdshi|)'!i stall. Shortly afterwanls he was .selected to accompany a
diplomatic mission 10 .Abyssinia, whiMi he .v.is decorated by Kin),' Menelik with the Third
Cla.ss of the Star of luhiopi.i.

The i{xpeilition to l)on;4ola, in 1S06, yavc the youtijj Guardsman his first chance of
seein;,,' acti\e stTvice, for M,ijor-(i( 11. ral Sir Herbert Kitchener, who was .selected to conduct
the iliflicult enter|)rise, hearin;.,' that Lord lulw.ird Cecil w.is desirous of wetting,' his spear,
offered him the position of Aide-ile-Camp on his .Staff which he readily accepted. Thus he
served uniKr most favourable aus|)ices, took part in all the dangers and privations of what
seemed at first a perilous enterprise, ami canv out of it unscathed, thou^m he w;is on two
occasions -on June 7th and .Srptembir igih in the thick of the fi'.,diiin(^. and lK)re himself
so well that his distinL,niish( d cliiif took occision, when forwardinj,' his DespiUches, to call
attention to the marked .djility he had displ.iyed. His reward was a lirevet-Majority, the medal
with two clasps, and the fourth class of the Medjidie.

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he rejoini-d his battalion, with which he did duty during .1
..vinjr year. But the war fever had now attacke<l him, and when it was
made known that an adv.mce was to be made cm Khartoum, he decided to obtain employ-
ment in I'lj^ypt so that he mii;ht not lose his chance of Kettinj^ once more to the front.
As a first ste| , he obt.iined employment with the Ljjypti.ui army in January, iSqS, and as
soon as th<; Staff of the Nik' H.xpedition was formed, he rejoined Sir llerbcrrt Kitchener's
Head-Quarters as Aide-de-Camp. In this lapaiity he was present at the battles of Atbara
and Kh.irioiim. bein;^ .ifterw.irds menti>jncil in Despatches and decorated with the Dis-
tinguished Service Order.

He was in London when Colonel Baden- Powell was selected, in the summer of 1899,
to proceed on special service to South Africa. This chance was to<j jjood to Ijc lost, so
Lord Ldwarii cjffered himself for s(-rvice ami was accepted. He left Kngland in July,
remained with Colonial Hatlen-I'owell all throu^'h the an.xious p-riod of the negotiations,
eventuj'lly reacheil Ma.'"ekint,' and in due coursit foimil himstlf shut up there its Chief StJift'
Officer during the siege. What (Jener.d liailen- Powell thinks of Lord Ldward is well
known, for he has already acknowleilgid how great were the services he rendered. The
siege of M.ifeking promises to be historic, and it is quite in the fitness of things that one
of the principal actors in that brilliant achievement of arms shoulil have been a scm of the
able Statesman to whose vigorous ijolicy it is due that the Union Jack now (lies as a
symbol of Imperialism over the Capitals of the late Or.mge Free State and I'ransviial
Kepublic.

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Major-General R. a. P. CLEMENTS, D.S.O., A.D.C.

II was j.i:iR:iMlIy tli.ju^jht, whon Majdr-Guneral Clements left lor South Africa, that, if h.-
was sparcil, lie would return to lliv^'iand as one of the most pro,nin(Mit actors in the
drama of war; and the hi;,'h oi)inioii formcii of this clear-headed leader amonj,' those
who have followed his career has heen more than justified by events, for he has
ailmirahiy upheld tlv: credit of th<- distinL;uished regiment in which he received his training.
In every duty <;ntrusted to jiim he has done well; indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that
the very mention of Ciemenis in on(,' of Lonl Roberts' telegrams has been reg.irded as a
guarantee of success in wliati'ver enterprise he ii.is been engaged, not a single failure of any
kind having had to be noted against him. Thus, of our young generals, he may be put
down as one of the most promising.

Mfijor-General Ralph .-XTthur l'<Mirhyn Clements was horn on February 6th, 1855. and joined
the 24th Regiment, on transfer from the Militia, on December 2nd, 1S74. [lis lirst war
exi)crience was gained in 1 877-78, when lie saw service .igainst the K.iflirs, being present at
the action of Neumarka. Flaving become Adjutant of his IJattalion July 27th, 1879, he acted
in that capacity iluring the Zulu War, when lie was present at th(' battle of Ulundi, being
mentioned in 1 )(,'spatches. and receiving his first war mtulal with clasp. According to the
rule then existing, he hail to vac.ite tin; duties of .Adjutant on {)romotion to his Company on
December 4th, 1880; but, no soou't was it ruled that a Captain was (•ligible, than ht? once
mf)re put on the spurs, on October 26th, 18S2, and retained the position of .\djutant until
jiromoted Major on I'Cbruary .•'•nh, 1886. His U.ittalion was then on active service in Burma,
where he did duty for a time .is a Brigade Major, and .afterwards as Assistant Provost
Marshal. He rejoined his liati.dion in tin; spring of 1886, and served with it almost con-
tinuously in face of the enemy until 1889. He was brought to notict; in Despatches in most
complimentary terms, ami had the further gratification of finding himself named in a
Government of India's Cieneral Order as an officer d(.'serving of the highest credit. His
services were acknowledgeil by his promotion to a Brevet Lieut. -Colonelcy, and he also
received the war medal with two cl.isps.

On December rnd. 1896, Brevet I. ieut. -Colonel Clements received the gratifying
intelligence tl at, to m.irk her ap|iriciation of his ability as a soldier. Her Majesty hail selected
him to fill a vacancy on the list of her Aides-de-Camp, and on .April 8th, 1S97, the gallant
young .soldier— we may say young, because he was only forty-two years of age — was
promoted to the comm.uul of the jiul Battalion South W'.des Borderers, with which he had
been so honourably connectid for twenty-two years. But his regimental career was soon to end,
for, on November ?oth, 1899, he was .seNxted to take over command of an Infantry
Brigaile at Aldershot, with the temjiorary rank of Major-Cieneral, and on December 4th, 1899,
he left for the CajH- .ls Major-General, commanding the 12th Brigade forming part of the
6th Division under Lieut.-General Kelly-Kenny, C.B.

What is thought of General Clements by those under his command will best be shown
by an extract from the private letter of an ofticer of one of the Battalions of his Brigade,
who wrote just before he left l-"ngland :- " We are, indeed, lucky to have been chosen to
proceed on service, anil still more so to be posted to (ieneral Clements' Brigade. This
young General has the char.icter of being one of the best drills and best administrators in
the Army. It seems only the other day that I knew him as a Major of the South Wales
Borderers. His promotion has been very n.pid, but if ever a soldier deserved good fortune
Iw does, for when duty has to be done In; pl.i)s the game thoroughly."

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LIEUT.-COLONEL W. D. OTTER, A.D.C.

THE Royal Canadian Reijimcnt ol" Infantry or Special Service Battalion has done
admirably in South Africa. The rci,nment is made up of "elegant extracts" from
all the best known militia units of tlu; Dominion, its officers havin^j been selected
from a lar),'e body of candidates who offered themselves for service. The regiment
took the field with an establishment of ciijht c()mpani<-s and a machine-gun section, all
thoroughly ecjuipped. On arrivin;,' at Cape " Town the battalion was found in such good
oriier that it was decided to hurry it to the front. Thus it had the advantage of jMrtici-
pating in the principal actions of the Cape Campaign under Lord Roberts. Its crowning glory,
however, may lie saiil to have been .it I'aaril.lair.,', where it had not a little to do in bringing
about the surrender of General Cronje ami the forces under his command. On thiit occasion it
stood shoulder to shoulder with the 1st Hattalion (".oidon Highlanders. To these two corps
was entrusted the duty of holdin- tlie enemy's position under a deadly fire. The Ijehaviour
of Ixjth was brillia-n in the extreme. They suffered heavily in killed and wounded, but they
never wavereil for a moment, and to their'distin^uished gallants was largely due the first
great victory of the war.

The orticer who r.iised and commande ■ the Royal Canadian Regiment, and to whom, there-
fore, so much of the credit is due for its soldierlike perAirmanccs, was none other than Lieut. -Colonel
William Dillon ()tt<^r. Colonel Otter i.; a Canadian by birth. Marly in life he associated himself with
the miliiia mo\cment, and so distini;uished himself by his ;'ial and aptitude that in due course he
was taken on to the list of the General Staff. Ylvu: his (iu;iliti(s soon marked him out as one to Ix*
trusted, so th.'t in the operations for the suppression of the Khiel reU'llion he accom|)anied
Lieut. -General Sir Frederick Middlcton into the tielil, .uid accjuitted himself with so much
credit that he w.is noted afterwards for the commaml of .i District. For this he had not
long to wail, as a vacancy liaving occurnxl in \<>. 2 Military District on April ist, 1886, he
was offered and accepted it. His command embraced tlie Province of Toronto, where he has
remained ever since, having the .status of a Colonel on the Staff. His services ha.'e been
further recognised by his a])pointment as Honorary .\ide-de-t!amp to the Governor-C «*ncral.

That the deeds of Colonel Otter .uid his brave Can,ulians .should h?ve rung throughout the
Kmpire is scarcely to be wondered at. Those who have followed the records of the Boer
campaign with any attention will not require to be reminiled of the very eulogistic terms
in which Colonel Otter has been referred to on more tha:i one occasion. As a correspondent
of a leading London paper put it, when writing of the defeat of General Cronji : " The
Royal Canadians, under their intre])id leader, showed the highest (|ualities in circumstances
of the greatest difficulty, and won th<- adniiration of all ranks of the Regular Army."
This corres()ondent went on to say : " Ihe whole force is ilelighted that Colonel Otter and
his battalion have earned such a measure of credit, for it would l»e impossible to find k
battalion anywhere in bt-iter fighting condition. Officers, non-commissioned officers, and
men seemed to vie with one another in upholding the good name of the Dominion which
they heave undertaken of their own free will to represent in the first big war in which the
Colonial soldiery h.ive stood side by side with Imperial (roops. The Canadian Regiment
of Infantry is as prouil of Colonel Otter as Colonel Otter has reason to be of them."
When in due course the question of rewards comes to be considered, it may reasonably
be e.xpected that the name of William Dillon Otter will be found to iKcupy a high pliice
in the list of honours. It cert.iinly ileserves to dr) so, for Colonel Otter's record has lieen
a most honourable one, and the deeds ol the batt.di'in he has led 90 well against the
enemies of his Sovereign will be handed down to future generations of loyal Canadians with
pride and satisfaction.

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The Late
LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR PENN SYMONS, K.C.B.

WHO COMMANDED AT THK BATTLE OF GLENCOE.

OF ihost; who have fallen in the lioer War the dt.ath .)f the gallant Penn Symons
was, perhaps, the most tragic. Upon iiini d(tv(jlvcel tlie duty of making the first
stand agamst the enemy at Gicncoe, or Talana Hill, as it is sometimes called.
It was a brilliant action, his dispositions Ixiiig adpiirable, and the gallantry of
the troops engaged— the ist Batt. King's Royal Rillcs! ist Batt. Royal Irish Fusiliers
and and Batt. Royal Dublin Fusiliers- beyond praise. But Penn Svmons, unfortunately, fell
seriously wounded whilst dinx'ting the attack. He was carried into Dundee, which had
been his head-tiuarters for some days before, and it was whilst he w;is lying there between
life and deatii that the place was afterwards occupied. His wound proved fatal, and it was
left to the enemy to p.iy the last respects to a brave soldier, which, to tiieir credit be it
said, they did in the handsomest possible manner.

Licut.-General Sir William I'l.'iui .Symons was Immh July 17th, 1X43, and joined the
24th Regiment as Ensign March 6th, iSoj, becoming I.iiuten.uu October 30th, 1866, and
Captain, rcbruary, 1878. The first fourteen years of his sirvice were so uneventful that
the operations again.st the Galeka.s in 1.S77, in South .Africa, foiuul him undecorated. He
went throuj^di the operations of that year as a senior Subaltern, and the Zulu War of 1879
as a Captam, but b«:yond nceiving a war medal no recognition fell to his lot. Under the
Army Reorganisauon Scheme of July, 1881, he became a Substantive Major. It was in that
rank that he tcwk the field in Burm.i in 1885 as Dejjuty-.vssistant .Adjutant-General, he
having for sometime ()revious!y acted as Assistant .Adjutant-General f(.r Musketry on the
Head-Quarters Staff in .M.idras. It was his duty in Burma to organise and command a
corps of Mounted Infantry. The result was such thai he received the most llattering
mention in Desfxilches, arul Wiis rewarded by Ijeing promoted to a Brevet Lieut. -Colonelcy in
addition to receiving the war med.d with clasj). Retuming to India he resumeil for a time
the charge of the Musketry arrangements in .Madras. On .April 1st, 1887, he was promoted
to a Brevet-Colonelcy, and in i38y received the thanks of tlie Governn\ent of India and a
C.B. for his splendid services in command of the Chin-Lushai E.xpedition. On January
31st, t892, he, to his great s;itisfai tion, w;:s gazetted to the command of his old regiment,
the 2nd Batt. .South VN'ales Borderers. lie ret.iineii th.it position until April 8th, 1893,
when he was induced to hand over his command in l.i\our of the appointment of Assistant
Adjutant-General for Musketry for all India, which he heltl until j romott.'d on March 25th,
1895, to the rank of Brigadier-GtMieral to conimand a Second Clas.^ District in the Punjab.
He had just previously earned the thanks of the Government of India for his services
rn command of a brigade of the W.ueristan Expvdition, 1894-95. His progress now was
assured, so that i: a.stonished no one to find how high his name stood at the close of the
North- West Frontier Campaign of 1897 98, ii; which he co\ered himself with credit, and
was brought to ntjtice in the strongest possible tt^rms, receiving .1 K.C.B. and the war
medal.

. When Miijor-General George Co.\, (-arly in iSgo. found
health, to tender his resignation oi' the Natal comi-..ind. the

necessary, owing to ill
home .iiithorities decided that
the moment had arrived for apj)oiiuing the strongest .uul .iblest man [)ossible to succeed
him. The choice rested upon i'enn Symons, who was calleil from liulia to take up the
duties, with the rank of Major-Gener.d. The result is only too well known, (ieneral Symons'
character has been summed up by .ui old friend and comrade in these- few words ; " He
was brave s a lion, truer than the steel of which his sv/ord was made ; a man who had
but two ideas, one duty, and the other that c/ doing his duty in all circumstances in the
•pirit of a high-minded, chivalrous gentlem.ui. '

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