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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'oiui t\'iiiiiutiui.tiit, A'inx ' Krval KifU ti'ifs. I\ ttuUmUmuunmMMn 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.ll:;n-r..t(ir .specially on th<' higher slopes ol the military ( )1\ inpiis. II 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 othortrait 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 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. T 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///(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." i hrtm a I'k ' ■ 'afk hy / .->■ :- In / . (.ui.oMi, Roni K I S. S. I^ADI N rOWl 1,1, I in In I I M'l ;. ' u M \i ; i.in'. Ill l: H'^^e. I.iiri. (iiNiKAi, SIR I Kl 1)1 KICK VV. ]• . V. lORISIll R W Al.kl K, Ka .11., I. .\l.i.. Commanding I.im; oi ('nMMiNh \i ihn, .Son ii Aikita. /« Scuriel L'liiiifss Pl Jiiikel. h v\>> 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.!> e.\iossible 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. i.-*.'n\tiu. ■ tt * I'lii.h MxKMiAi. \'IS(.()LNI WOI.SI I.I ^, K.I'., (..(..11., lu., in Cn\l\l \M,| I, - IS ( nil I lil Till Al.MV. Ill ill, hiiil hi, Si .■/ <; l-iii'.i M.ii\ii,i!. /....< .• /•.•..;,.<. .,,,1 , lliH./.-i ,<- c.-tr. /:.,t„ ^!.„! n: I. II 11. (iiMKM LORD Ml' niL'l.N, K.CA'.O., C.ll., Cl.M.CJ., i ic. //; A/. t'ii,fi'.^< l'i;i/','nn ••! a U'liutiil i.>fli,,r. 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. 10 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. I.iiii.CiiN. SIR WIIIIAM (i.XlACKl, k.C.H., D.S.O. r.iMMAMINi. ^I-I' ll|\l~l A, S..l:ni AiUI.W lull' I'.'lA'l-:. I,? I 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 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. I •I im V: «5 ir «./»ii- .>- c..^,. /,j«,, s,,„, (!• Lii.M. (iiMRAi, SIR (,)()R(,| wiiiii., \-.(;., {;.(;. I}., ,,c. i6 /■'f'l a /■*.t-V4..i/-l /a:t\ttii. Pt,/-lm. Fiiii.-Marsiiai lord KOBI' R IS, V.C:., K.P., (;.C..H., G.C.S.I., (I.C.I.F.. 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!" 11. 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 repeatiiarterMaster-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 ln5. 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,',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\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 ,'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. 'I M\i.(ii,Mi#, I Hk.mi Ci. sir IRANCIS RKilNAII) WINCA ll',, K.i .M ' :., . .1;., D. ''.!>., K. A., .\.'.)A . (r i\ I KNiiK (il M I. M ' il I ill >' 'i I' ^N. 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 hned 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 ki., I..I .1'.., ■ 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 applicatie 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. 26 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. N. a? I Gk.nlkai, sir RICHARD HARRISON, K.C.U., C.M.c,., .;.] IN^I I.LlMl; (jI.M K \;. Ml I .,i,| ii |, All'. f 'A \~\ I i II k- >>t, ; j.^«» ..■/•;, ;( f MAjoR-Cii.NiKAi, SIR I^INDON BLOOD, K.C.B., R.E CdMM.WIU.Ni. MlllUl |l|'-tKl' 1. lilNciAl.. I SIR BINDON BLOOD. h\ 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 nility 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 Hliil III \lK|. \N llllli I "l,i K. x SIR CHARLES WARREN. ;^*«!'s^'^B?s«a 7 tjiT^Skai-^ ' 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. :n 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 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. *" 34 SIR CHARLES WILSON. F 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. M III \l l;l. A. Ki!l,,t in A.ii.'ii ,il M.i:;, is',i,l,:i!. /',■, '•II':', I 1 i///, I Si II I, THE LATE GENERAL WAUCHOPE. o tij-.thc t.icticiil 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*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 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. ? 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. 39 1,11.1 ri.NAN 1 Cil M H \1, SIR il. M. I.. HINDI,!, K.C.Ii., (..M.(,., D.S.O. CuMM \M.|N'. .Mil 1): .1-1' •%, >'i: 111 .\i 1 I' \\ Ih IP I i.l ' I . \ •I'J / tf^in .1 i n-.<-^ 'U/t .\ w .I*;. Afit' tt^'l I-lllllNAM (ilMKAI. J. 1). i'. IKINC.II. L'l.lMMAMil.Vi. (.'.WAl.KV 1)1\ I>lilN, SoUlll AllU'AN I'lll.H lulvi K. /. 41 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,idnderous 8-inch howitzer, which can drop 118 lbs of compressed de.struction into an enemy's position four or live miles distant. 43 I It V M ■'-:' (iiN!! 1 (.. II. M \R-II \I.I . r.i.»M.iN>. 1;')..\;, A..ii:,;.i i.., .-".'ri 111 Aiii. .\n 1 iii.i. l>,i.( i 4t f Majok-chmrm sir |. C. AKDACII, K.C.I.I-., c.h., r.k. lni.1,1 Inl. Ill Mll.ll \l;V l.N 11 1 lb. I N' I ^3 SIR JOHN ARDAGH. ! I AN cxtri'inily intcristiiv^ ;im!, it <^nvs withmit s.iyinx, .ilruost vit.illy iiiiport.mt milit.iry iiisiiuiliiiii is iiiir liitrinatinn 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