LONDON TIMES SHIPPING LIST FOR JUL. 1899 -
DEC. 1902
CAPE TIMES WEEKLY EDITION SHIPPING LIST FOR JAN. 1899 - DEC.
1902
CODES USED -- dd/mm/yr,
p = page and a,b,c,d,e,or f = column.
Lt. 01/01/00
(Monday)
p5e
DatelineCalcutta, Dec 31. The
steamer Uganda embarks 250 horses here on Jan.
5 for Durban. Majors Dawson, 9th
Bengal Lancers, Biddulph, 19th Bengal Lancers, and Armstrong, 14th Bengal
Lancers; and Lts. Wigram, 18th Bengal
Lancers, Cheyene, 8th Bengal Cavalry.
16 officers go altogether. Col. Sinclair, R.E. and Capt. Seagrim, R.A., go to the Cape as special
service officers.
The Majestic,
which arrived at Cape Town on Saturday, left for Durban the same afternoon with
the 1/York and Lancaster Regt. and
drafts. The Wakool also left Cape Town
for Durban with RAMC, horses and mules.
The Dilwara arrived at Nalal on Saturday. The Ingeli arrived at Cape Town with stores on Dec. 28.
p10c The following
embarked in the liner Moor from Southampton for the Cape: Lord Stanley, M.P.,
Sir William Stokes, surgeon, a number of nurses, Mr. Adalbert Hay, U.S. Consul at Pretoria, Lady Ohagan, the
Hon. Mrs. Maxse, Cols. W.F. Kelly,
C.B., F.W. Benson, H. Cooper, O.C.
Hannay, and J.A.F. Nutt, RA; Lt.-Col.
E. Hegan, Brevet-Col Barker, and
Majors Maxse ( this is the correct sailing on 30 Dec.) and J.T. Johnson.
At the Royal
Albert Docks, the Nomadic took on board 530 remounts and about 70 men of the
Scots Greys, Capt. Pennell-Elmhurst
commanding.
p10e The Earl Of
Denbigh mentioned here. At p10f
Maj. F.I. Maxse ordered out on special
service.
LT. 02/01/00
(Tuesday)
p3c The Fremona
arrived at Table Bay from Naples on Dec.31 with mules. The Urmston Grange arrived at Cape Town on
Dec 24 from Algoa Bay. The Manchester
City arrived at Port Natal from Cape Town on Sunday.
The Roslin Castle
arrived at Cape Town with 170 wounded from Durban.
Dateline
Gibralter, Jan 1. The transport
Manchester Corporation is still detained here for repairs. Some of the horses on board have developed
influenza.
p4a The Cymric, at
Canada Dock, Liverpool embarked the following for SA: 16 officers and 510 men
of the 76th, 81st, and 82nd Batteries of the RFA, under command of Lt.-Col
McDonnell; 400 horses, 21 officers and 930 men of the 2/Gloucestershire Regt.,
under command of Lt.-Col. Lindsell; 3
officers and 145 men of the 2/Scottish Rifles, under Lt. Macallan; and 251 men of the West Riding
Regt. under Lt. Slordet.
She sailed Monday night.
The following
will embark in the America at the Royal Albert Docks, Woolwich, tomorrow, for
SA. : Ammunition Column, 6th Div., 5 officers, 1 warrant officer, 128 men and
93 horses; Mounted Inf. 6th Div.,
1/Royal Irish Regt., 4 officers, 136 men and 183 horses; detachments of the 3rd
Div. Field Hospital and other details
making a total of 11 officers, 1 warrant officer, 267 men and 276 horses.
The Kildonan
Castle will leave Southampton to-morrow with 2648 officers and men,
reinforcements for the artillery, and 18 inf.
battalions, a general hospital, and details of departmental corps.
LT. 03/01/00
(Wednesday)
p3d The Mongolian,
with the 2/Middlesex Regt., ex Avondale Castle, and the Atlantian arrived at
Natal on Monday. The Victorian arrived
at Cape Town on Monday evening; the Majestic and the Maplemore arrived at Natal
from Cape Town yesterday.
Dateline Las
Palmas, Jan. 1. The Yoruba has taken all of the cargo from
the Denton Grange and was to sail Tuesday.
The Warrigal from
Sydney has arrived at Melbourne.
Dateline
Gibralter, Jan. 2. The Manchester Corporation, having repaired
her propeller and reshipped 380 horses, sailed for the Cape this afternoon.
p4d The Goorkha,
6287 tons, will leave Southampton to-morrow for SA. She will embark the following: 14th Brigade Staff, 3 officers, 21
men and 3 horses; 2/ Line. (?)
Regt. 29 officers, 1 warrant
officer, 975 men and 5 horses; Regt.
Staff, RE, 2 officers and 5 men;
? 9 Field Co. RE., 7 officers
and 201 men; 2/Cavalry Brigade, 5 officers, 1 warrant officer, and 34 men.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
03/01/00
p4 The Pinemore
arrived Friday with part of Household Cavalry. The Atlantian also arrived
Friday with 2 Btys. RFA. The Maplemore sailed from here yesterday for Durban
with "A, F, & G of South African L.H.
p5 The Majestic
arrived Friday evening and disembarked a few details and sailed for Natal with
1/York & Lancaster, drafts for the Rifle Brig. and Border Regt. and RAMC.
Troops on board, about 2,000.
LT. 04/01/00
(Thursday)
p3f The Victorian
left Cape Town yesterday for Durban.
The Dunera left Cape Town yesterday for St. Vincent and England yesterday.
She is due at Southampton on Jan.
27, and has on board 187 military invalids, also 1 officer and 11 men
naval invalids. The Wakool arrived at
Port Natal Jan. 2 from Table Bay. The Jelunga has left St. Vincent for Table Bay.
p4c The Kildonan
Castle sailed yesterday from Southampton with 81 officers and 2,596 men for SA.
The Goorkha
sailing from Southampton will have on board the following officers:
Maj.-Gen. Sir H.C. Chermside, RE, Maj,
W.M. Marter, 1/DG, Lt.-Col. Maxwell,
RE., Maj. Jerome, RE., Capt. Young, RE., Lts. Hardcastle, Davis and
Buckle, 2 Lts. Evans and Smith, RAMC.,
Field Hospital, RAMC., Maj. Franklin,
Maj. Cummings, Lt. Stafford, and civil surgeon Collum.
LT. 05/01/00. (Friday)
p5e Dateline
Bombay, Jan. 4. The Dwarka left here for Cape Town with the
following: Gen. Tucker, Gen. H. MacDonald, Gen. Nicholson and othere general officers, as well as a number of
reserve horses.
The Severin
arrived at Cape Town, Jan 2, with Government stores. The Roslin Castle arrived at Cape Town from Natal Thursday
morning. The Moor arrived at Madeira
Jan 4. and left at noon. The Mexican arrived at Cape Town on
Wednesday.
p10a The Assaye ,
(7,370 tons) , the Goorkha and the Braemar Castle sailed Jan. 4 from Southampton for SA.
The Goorkha
carries the 2/Linconshire Regt., 7 officers, and 201 men of the RE., and a
Cavalry Brigade Hospital. Total was 46
officers and 1,236 men
The Braemar
Castle sailed with 29 officers and about 1,000 men of the KOSB., 3 companies of
ASC., and details of RE and RAMC for a total of 39 officers and 1,343 men.
The Assaye sailed
with 2,025 officers and men.
LT. 06/01/00
(Saturday)
p5f The Harlech
Castle arrived at East London on Wednesday and left on Thursday for Natal. The
Dunera left Cape Town for England Jan.
1, and has on board Lt. Grant,
CG, in charge, 4 civilian nurses, 1 man Cape Medical Staff Corps for duty on
voyage, Maj. Duff, 2/Black Watch,
Capt. Fetherstonhaugh and Lt. Chamley, 2/Seaforth Highlanders, Lt. Gillatt, 1/A & S Highlanders, and 2nd
Lt. Hill, 2/Royal Fusiliers, sick and
wounded; Master Gunner Rouse, Garrison Art., on medical certificate, 187 men
various corps invalids, 2 men, 2 women and 2 children indulgence passengers.
p10a The Lycia
left Victoria Docks, London, yesterday with ammunition for SA. Besides 100 military wagons and a large
quantity of small-arm ammunition, she is taking 8,000 rounds of lyddite shell
for the howitzer batteries, 15-pounder field guns, and 4.7 inch quick-firers.
LT. 08/01/00
(Monday)
p3f & 4a
Dateline Sydney, Jan. 6. The NSW Government has made the following
arrangements for shipment of troops to SA: the Southern Cross will take 17
officers, 442 men, and 592 horses; the Surrey will take 14 officers, 321 men
and 367 horses. This is a combination
of the troops from South Australia, WA, NSW and the Australian Horse. The Moravian will take the Tasmanians and
the NSW Medical Corps, in all 19 officers 162 men and 10 nurses.
Dateline
Brisbane, Jan. 6. The Maori King will take the Queensland
contingent to SA. Dateline Bombay,
Jan. 6. The 16th Lancers left this afternoon for SA in the transports
Landula, Fazilka and Narrung.
The Victorian
arrived at Natal Saturday. The Gascon
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Nomadic arrived at Las Palmas Saturday.
The Orient arrived at St.
Vincent on Saturday, left yesterday for the Cape.
Dateline Madeira,
Jan. 7, The Kildonan Castle arrived
here at 7 a.m. today and left at 3 p.m. for Cape Town.
Dateline Madrid,
Jan. 6. The Maine arrived at Las Palmas on her way to the Cape.
p8a, b, & c
The Britanic sailed from Southampton Jan. 7 with the following: 2/Cheshire Regt. ( 27 officers, 1 warrant
officer, and 962 men); 2 officers of the RE: 3 officers and 12 men of the Army
Pay Dept.; 3 officers and 57 men of the ? 19 Bearer Co. RAMC., and 4 officers and 31 men Hospital
Staff, 5th Div.
The America
(5,158 tons) sailed from Royal Albert Docks on Friday. She had on board 10 officers, 1 warrant
officer, 286 men and 279 horses along with the ammunition column for the
division.
The British
Prince, transport #75, (7,327 tons, 470 feet l., 56 ft. 6 in.
w., 35 ft. d.) sailed Saturday
from the Royal Albert Docks. She had on
board mounted infantry companies of the 2/Gloucestershires, 2/Worcesters, and
the 2/ Royal West Kent Regt., in all 13 officers, 403 men, and 347 horses.
Among the
passengers landed by the Dunvegan Castle at Southampton on Saturday was
Maj.-Gen. Yule who was invalided home.
LT. 09/01/00
(Tuesday)
p5c The Avoca
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Simla left Durban for Cape Town on Thursday and the Harlech Castle arrived at
Durban on Friday evening from Cape Town.
The Kelvindale arrived at Las Palmas at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Dateline Bombay,
Jan. 8. The transports Muttra and Urlani, with a battery of Horse
Artillery and reserve horses, have left for SA.
p10b Major C.S.O.
Monck, 2/CG, had graduated from Staff College.
LT. 10/01/00
(Wednesday)
p5d The hospital
ship Princess of Wales and the Tintagel Castle arrived at Cape Town on Monday.
The Siberian,
with troops and horses ex Denton Grange, has left Las Palmas for Cape Town.
The Cymric passed
St. Vincent yesterday.. The Goorkha arrived at Teneriffe yesterday
afternoon and left for SA in the evening.
The Assaye
arrived at Las Palmas 9:30 a.m. Jan. 9.
Dateline Bombay,
Jan.9. The Pekin left here this
afternoon with Horse Artillery and 284 horses for SA.
p10c At Tilbury
Docks, the Manchester Port is embarking a brigade division of field artillery
consisting of 83rd, 84th and 85th Batteries, with divisional brigade staff, the
whole consisting of 545 officers and men, 427 horses and 18 guns.
The Glengyle, at
South-West India Dock, is embarking the ammunition column for the batteries
embarked in the Manchester Port. The
Glengyle is taking on 132 officers and men, 93 horses, and 25 wagons.
At Southampton,
the Bavarian is to embark 2,206 men - the 1/East Lancashire Regt., 1,060 men,
and the 2/South Wales Borderers, 1,111 men and a field hospital.
To-morrow the
Aurania, at Southampton, is to embark the 2/North Staffordshire Regt., 1,050
men.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
10/01/00 Nothing Noted
LT. 11/01/00
(Thursday)
p3a The following
announcement was issued by the War Office at 9 oclock last night:
A telegram has been received reporting the arrival to-day at
Cape Town of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts and his staff on board the Dunottar
Castle.
Dateline
Melbourne, Jan. 10. The Euryalus will depart here next Saturday
with 262 Victorians and 300 horses for SA.
The Cestrian
arrived at Cape Town yesterday and the Sumatra on Tuesday. The Braemar Castle arrived at Las Palmas
yesterday.
The transport
Simla arrived at Cape Town from Durban, Jan.
7. The transport Lawada left
Bombay Jan. 10 for Durban with 204
horses.
LT. 12/01/00
(Friday)
p5b & c
Dateline Ottawa, Jan. 11. The rejection of the Montezuma as a
troopship will cause delay in the embarcation of troops. Another transport will have to be secured.
Lord Strathcona
offers to raise and maintain in the field 400 men. Cost will be upwards of $1,000,000.
The Braemar
Castle left Las Palmas Wednesday afternoon.
The Cheshire left Table Bay for Southampton yesterday.
The Warrigal left
Adelaide on Wednesday for London (?)
She has on board part of the Australian contingent for the Cape.
The Ujina left
Bombay for Durban Jan. 11. She carries J Battery RHA and spare horses.
p10a & b
Dateline Southampton, Jan.
11. Shipping is being delayed
because of coaling problems. At
Southampton coaling is done by basket from lighters and railway trucks into
scuttles in the side of the ship. The
difficulty is due to a labor shortage.
The Unbria (#77)
and the Nile (#82) are ready to depart.
The Nile, 5,945
tons and will accommodate about 1,400 men, while the Umbria , 8,127 tons, will accommodate about 2,200 men.
Victualing is
accompolished at a cost of a shilling a head, including medical comforts. A menu follows and includes milk with tea or
coffee.
Sunday: Breakfast:
Porridge, milk, bread, butter, and coffee.
Dinner:
Roast beef, potatoes, vegetables, plum pudding.
Tea: Tea,
biscuits, and jam.
Monday: Breakfast:
Irish stew, bread, and coffee.
Dinner: Soup,
hotpot, potatoes & e., and rice pudding.
Tea: Tea,
biscuits and butter.
Tuesday:
Breakfast: Porridge, molasses, bread, butter and coffee.
Dinner: Pea
soup, pork & beans, potatoes & e., prunes, and rice.
Tea: Tea,
biscuits and cheese.
Wednesday:
Breakfast: Vegetable stew, bread and coffee.
Dinner: Roast
mutton or pork, potatoes & e., apples and rice.
Tea: Tea,
biscuits and butter.
Thursday:
Breakfast: Porridge and milk, bread, butter, and coffee.
Dinner: Salt
beef and suet pudding, potatoes & e.
Tea: Tea,
biscuits and jam.
Friday:
Breakfast: Porridge and milk,
bread, butter and coffee.
Dinner: Ling
fish, egg sauce, hotpot, potatoes & e., and sago pudding.
Tea: Tea,
biscuits and marmalade.
Saturday:
Breakfast: Irish stew, bread, coffee.
Dinner: Soup,
boiled mutton, potatoes & e., prunes and rice.
Tea: Tea,
biscuits and butter.
The Nile carried
26 officers and about 700 men of the 4/Royal Lancaster Regt. The Nile will call at Queenstown to embark
an equal number of 9th Kings Royal Rifles.
The Umbria
embarked 89 officers and 2,034 men belonging to the 4/Derbyshire Regt., and the
3/Durham L.I.
The Briton, due
to leave next Saturday will carry Col.
A.G. Wavell, C.O. 15th Brigade and his A.D.C. Capt. C.S. Davidson, South Staffordshire
Regt. and the following other officers
of the M.I. section of the C.I.V.: Lt.-Col.
H.C. Cholmondeley, Capts. J.W.
Reid, & Waterlow, Lts. B.Moeller,
C.W. Wilson, and Henderson, 2nd Lts.
Berry & E.A. Manisty, and Lt.
and Q.M. Ridler.
The Glengyle left
South West India Dock at 6:30 a.m. yesterday for SA. She carried the ammunition column for 83rd, 84th and 85th
Batteries of Field Artillery and a number of officers. The troops consisted mostly of Hussars and
RA with a few Dragoons, about 140 officers and men. Also 230 horses, 14 large wagons, and over this number of smaller
wagons.
LT. 13/01/00
(Saturday)
p5c The Assaye
left Las Palmas Jan. 9. The Simla left Cape Town Jan. 11 and the Sumatra has left Cape Town for
Port Elizabeth. The Harlech Castle left
Durban Jan. 9 for Delagoa Bay.
LT. 15/01/00
(Monday)
p5e Dateline
Brisbane, Jan. 13. The second Queensland contingent, consisting
of 160 officers and men and 175 horses embarked to-day on the transport Maori
King.
p6a The Gaika
(with 2/E. Kent Regt &
1/Oxfordshire L.I.) and the Ottoman (with remounts) arrived at Cape Town
yesterday.
The Britannic has
arrived at St. Vincent.
The Prah and the
Roysten Grange, from Buenos Ayres, with horses and fodder have arrived at Cape
Town on Jan. 9.
The British
Prince has arrived at Las Palmas and the transport Umta left Bombay for Durban,
Jan. 12, with 325 horses.
p10c The Briton
(10,248 tons, 530 ft. l., 60 ft. w., and 40 ft. d.) left Southampton for the Cape on Saturday. She carried the following: In addition to
the officers already listed she carried 250 men of the C.I.V.
The Garth Castle
(3,660 tons) also left Southampton on
Saturday for the Cape. She carried
Capts. R.B. Shipley and Brailey,
Lts. Mulvey, Concanon, Benson and
Wellby, and Capt. & Adj. Bell.
p11b The Pindari
(5,674 tons) sailed from Royal Albert
Docks on Saturday with 2 companies of M.I. and a number of remounts. She carried 12 officers, 333 men and 387 horses. The M.I. consisted of Oxford L.I. and the
West Riding Regt. The remounts were in
charge of 1 officer and 68 men of the Inniskilling Dragoons.
The Persia is due
to sail to-day from here.
The Nile embarked
at Queenstown Saturday the 9th KRRC, the 1/Irish Militia Regt.
At Southampton,
the Bavarian embarked the 1/East Lancashire Regt, 1060 strong, 2/South Wales
Borderers, 1,111 strong and the 13th Co.
RAMC.
The 47th Co. RE, the 2/North Staffordshire Regt. and Nos.
6 and 10 companies AOC will embark in the Aurania today at Southampton.
LT. 16/01/00
(Tuesday)
p3d The Gascon and
Sumatra arrived at Port Elizabeth from
Table Bay and the Hyades, from Natal Jan.
12.
The Severn from
Southampton, with Government stores, has left Cape Town for Durban.
The Pendower,
with horses and fodder from Buenos Ayres, has arrived at Cape Town.
The British
Prince left Las Palmas on Friday for Cape Town. The Umbria has arrived at Las Palmas. The America has arrived at St.
Vincent. The Britannic has
sailed.
Dateline Bombay,
Jan. 15. The Nankin and the Pundua have left for Durban with horses.
p5b The Aurania
left Southampton yesterday with the 2/North Staffordshire Regt., ? 47
(Fortress) Co., RE., 4 officers and 129 men, ? 6 Co. of the Army Ordnance Corps, 2 officers, 1 warrant officer, and 80
men, ? 10 Co. AOC., 2 officers and 80 men RE.(Survey Section), 1 officer and 10
men from Southampton(?), drafts of the 2/Berkshire Regt., 104 men of the
1/Manchester Regt., and details of RAMC, 1/Warwickshire Regt., 2/West Riding
Regt., 2/Royal Scots, 2/Middlesex Regt., and 16th Lancers. The total was 48 officers, 4 warrant
officers, and 1,590 men.
The Persia, with
cavalry and remounts for SA left Albert Docks yesterday afternoon. Those on board consisted of: draft of 12th
Lancers (60), under command of Lt.
Dunlop, Mr. J.O. Scevington,
civil surgeon and a civil veternary surgeon, Maj. MacLaughlin in charge of the 184 remounts.
LT. 17/01/00
(Wednesday)
p3d & e
Dateline Sydney, Jan. 16. The Maori King reached here this afternoon
and will resume her voyage to-night.
The Sumatra, from
Port Elizabeth, arrived at Cape Town on Monday morning with sick. The Avoca, from Table Bay, has arrived at
Port Elizabeth on the 14th. The
transport Severn arrived at Durban on the 14th.
The Royston
Grange , which recently arrived at Cape Town from Buenos Ayres with nearly 700
horses, did not lose any animals in transit.
p5a The City of
Rome embarked 950 men of the 3/South Lancashire Militia and departed at about 2
oclock yesterday afternoon for Queenstown.
The officers on board were: Col.
I. Blackburne, Majors Tarbet,
Smythies, and M.H. Hall; Captains
Eckersley, Skirrow, Postlethwaite, and E.K. Heath; Lieutenants Conran, Vaughan,
and Stevens; and 2nd Lts. Hanbury,
Winser, Spooner and Parker.
p5c
"INOCULATION AGAINST TYPHOID
"Arrangements are being made for Army medical officers
to address personally
all men of the Militia, Yeomanry,
and Volunteers
going to South Africa on the importance
and advisability
of submitting to inoculation against
Typhoid fever
before embarking.
p8c Coldstream
Guards. Sec. Lieut.
G. Stewart to be Lieutenant,
vice F. D. Farquhar, seconded.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
17/01/00
p3 The following
arrived on Wednesday: Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener, Maj.-Gens. Kelly Kenny,
C.T. Pretyman, Col. the Viscount Down, the Earl of Errol, A.E. Goldsand,
Lt.-Col. Gubbins, Commander the Hon. H.S. Fortescue, R.N., Majs. H.V. Cowan,
Henderson, Hume, Gorringe, H. Hamilton, C. Munro, Watson, I. Caunter, Capt. A.C.M. Waterfield, Lord. H. Scott,
Lord Lettrington, W.H. Booth, Lt. Cowen, R.N., Lt. & Commander DOyley,
R.N., Sub.-Lts. R.N., L.T. Jones, W.G. Way, Surgeon Lobb, R.N. & Mr. S.
McCullock, R.N.
p4 Dateline
Durban, Jan. 14, foreign military attaches, accompanied by Col. Ivor Herbert,
arrived this morning from the front and will sail tomorrow by Harlech Castle
for Cape Town . Listed were: Col. Slocum, U.S., Baron Lottritz, Ger., Capt.
Trenimel, Aust., Col. Stakhovitch, Rus., Capt. Hirvka, Jap., Maj. Gentillius,
Italy, Maj. Estaben, Spain, Comte. A. Demade, France.
p5 Dateline
Mochudi, Jan. 5. Capt. Llewellyn with the armored train went to 4 miles south
of Gaberones.
p11 The Gaika
arrived yesterday brought part of the shipment of the Queens Chocolate for the
troops. There were 800 boxes from Rountree, 300 boxes from Fry & Sons,
& 411 boxes from Cadbury.
LT. 18/01/00
(Thursday)
p5d & e
Dateline Sydney, Jan 17. The
second New South Wales Contingent for the Cape, numbering nearly 700 officers
and men, embarked to-day in the steamers Moravian, Southern Cross and
Surrey. The contingent consisted of 44
officers, 644 men, 14 hospital nurses, a medical corps, and 756 horses. The Moravian left to-day and the other two
will probably follow to-morrow.
Dateline Malta,
Jan.17. ? 5 Co., Southern Division, RA,
left to-day in the transport Anubis for Gibralter, where it will be transferred
to the City of Rome for passage to the Cape.
The Anubis carries a consignment of oranges contributed locally for the
sick in SA.
The Harlech
Castle left Natal on Tuesday for Cape Town and the Dunottar Castle arrived at
Natal at noon yesterday.
The Clan Ranald
has arrived at Port Natal, the Clan MacArthur arrived at Cape Town on Thursday,
and the Mortlake, from Rosario, left Cape Town yesterday for Port Elizabeth.
The Avoca arrived
at Durban on Tuesday. The Minho, with
government stores for the Cape arrived at St.
Vincent yesterday and the Dunera for Southampton, has left St. Vincent.
The Briton left
Madeira at 10 oclock yesterday morning for the Cape.
The Majestic left
Cape Town, Jan 17, for England with 170 wounded, including Gen. Featherstonhaugh, Maj. Dalrymple Hamilton, and Mr. Knight, of the Morning Post. The Harlech Castle takes 190 Durban wounded.
p6b & c The
Pavonia, with sick and wounded, arrived
at Southampton early yesterday morning.
There were 11 officers and 73 men.
The wounded officers included : Maj.
Dashwood, Maj. Earle, Lt. Fernybough, Capt. Earle, Lt. Hill, Lt. Cornwallis-West, Lt.-Col. Dobie, and Lt.-Col. Verner.
Staff Surgeon Whelan was medical officer in charge.
The Brigade
Division of RFA, 7th Div. is to embark
to-day, at Tilbury Dock, in the Manchester Port. They consisted of the 83rd, 84th, and 85th Batteries and a
detachment of ASC. The equipment
consisted of 18 guns and 34 wagons .
The rest was 545 officers and men and 427 horses.
The City of Rome
embarks at Queenstown to-day 25 officers and 800 men of the 4(Militia)/A &
S Highlanders and 3 officers and 191 men of the 32nd Co. Southern Down RGA for Gibralter to relieve
the 2nd and 4th Cos. RGA. She will sail at 4 p/m/ to-day.
p6d A roll of the
CIV granted freedom of the city.
LT. 19/01/00
(Friday)
p5c Dateline
Halifax (N.S.), Jan. 18. There are 800 men of the second Canadian
contingent in Halifax. The transport
Laurentain has embarked 2 batts.
artillery and the artillery staff, horses, guns and ammunition and is
due to sail Saturday afternoon.
Dateline Sydney,
Jan. 18. The Maori King left last night a few hours after the the
Moravian. The Southern Cross left this
morning and the Surrey is leaving at noon to-morrow.
p5e The Jelunga
and the Dwarka arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Majestic left Cape Town yesterday for Southampton. She has on board 170 military invalids. The Garth Castle arrived at Madeira
yesterday morning and left at 11 a.m.
The umbria arrived at St.
Vincent yesterday. The transport
Dunera, for England, left St. Vincent
Jan. 17.
p6b & c
Dateline Tilbury, Jan. 18. The Manchester Port sailed from Tilbury
between 4 & 5 this afternoon. She
sailed with 20 officers, 565 men, 449 horses, 18 guns, and the compliment of
ammunition wagons.
The transport
City of Rome left Queenstown for SA yesterday afternoon. She shipped at Queenstown a large quantity
of ammunition and stores and embarked 27 officers and 800 men of the 4/A &
S Highlanders, who arrived by special steamer from Dublin under command of
Col. A.C. D. Dick. The other officers of the battalion include
Lt.-Col. M.D. Campbell, Maj. &
Adj. J. Deane, Captains the Hon.
T.H.A.E. Cochrane, J.T. Scott, W.
Mure, B.A. Cuninghame, L.G. Pearson, G.C. Grahame, W. Hall, and H.H. Houldsworth; Capt. and Q.M. A.
McRae; Lts., Napier, Clarke, Campbell, Preston, G.G. Gilligan, W.A.
Gordon, C.C. Walker, the Hon. R. Bruce(the Master of Burleigh), W.A.
Orr-Ewing, and H.A. Duncan. 5 officers
chargers were shipped. Also embarked
for Gibralter were 3 officers and 191 men.
At Gibralter the City of Rome will embark 8 officers and 300 men of the
RGA.
LT. 20/01/00
(Saturday)
p8a The Moor
arrived at Cape Town Thursday morning and the Umbria left St. Vincent yesterday. The Nile arrived at St.
Vincent yesterday afternoon. The
Fultala, with 280 horses contributed by Indian Princes, left Bombay for Durban
yesterday.
LT. 22/01/00
(Monday)
p5e Dateline
Wellington, Jan 20. The second New
Zealnad contingent for SA, left here to-day in the Waiwera. They were commanded by Major Cradock and
numbered 242 officers and men and 300 horses.
Dateline Halifax,
Jan. 20. The Laurentian, with the second Canadian contingent on board,
sailed at 5 oclock this afternoon.
p6b The Cymric and
the Maine arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Kildonan Castle arrived, Jan.
20 at Cape Town. The Orient has
also arrived at Cape Town. The Inyati
arrived at Port Natal Friday. The
Glengyle left St. Vincent on Saturday
for Table Bay and the Bavarian has passed St.
Vincent. The Aurania left Las
Palmas at 4 a.m. yesterday.
Dateline St. Vincent, Jan. 20. The Nile left here at
11 a.m. to-day for SA.
Dateline Las
Palmas, Jan 20. The Garth Castle left
here at 2 p.m. yesterday for Cape Town.
Dateline Bombay,
Jan. 20. The Purnea left to-day for Durban with horses and a reserve
battery consisting of 6, 15-pounders.
p10a A committee
of Danish farmers have donated 12,000 boxes of Danish butter as a gift for
British soldiers. The butter will be
distributed among the sick and wounded.
A third
contingent of 24th Middlesex(Post Office) Rifle Volunteers, belonging to the
Telegraph Reserve of the RE, and a draft of Regulear Reserves, embarked in the
St. Andrew for SA. The detachment numbered 60.
p10 d & e
Dateline Southampton, Sunday.
The passenger list for the Kinfauns Castle includes the following: Duke
of Marlborough, Sir Simon Staurt, Sir Reginald Beauchamp, Capt. Cecil Grenfell,
Lady Lilian Grenfell, the Hon. J. Ward, Mr.
Burdett-Coutts, M.P., Mr. & Mrs.
Rudyard Kipling, Admiral Maxse, Col.
Browne, Col. Graham, Surgeon
Lt.-Col. Forrester, Civil Surgeon Lowe,
Maj. Baird, Maj. Crampton, Maj. L.A. Gordon, Bt.-Maj.
Shore, Bt.-Maj. Ryder,
Capt. J.M. Camilleri, Capt. F.J. Moberly, Capt. W.E. Lloyd, Capt. Creagh, Capt. Cobbe,
Capt. Knight, Capt. H.H.F. Turner, Lieutenants W.M.
Guthrie-Smith, R.J.T. Stewart, W.A. Light, W.T. Barry, A. St.
J. Cooke, C.R. Harbord, F.D.
Russell, C.C. Newnham, and Superintendent Nursing Sister Oram, with 11 nursing
sisters; Mr. H.C. Newton and Mr. Watson.
The Kinfauns Castle departed at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
On board the Gaul
are the following: Col. the Earl of
Albemarle, Capt. the Hon. J.R. Bailey, Surgeon-Capt. E.
St. V. Regan, Capt. C.W.
Berkeley, Lt. F. Treffy, Lt.
E.D. Townroe, Lt. B.W. Garnett,
Lt. J.W. Cohen, and 300 men of the CIV. The Gaul departed Saturday afternoon.
The Aristo(1,500
ton) sailed Sunday with 500 officers and men of the CIV.
The American
departed Sunday at about 4:30 p.m. with
2 batteries of Field Artillery, the 8th and 68th, the 13th Brigade Divisional
Staff, and a contingent of RAMC., in all 350 men and 300 horses. Officers on board include: Col. L.
A. Chapman, Capt. A.H.S. Goff, Civil Surgeon C.C. Simpson,
Civil Veterinary Surgeon G.T. Jackson, Maj.
H. Chance, Capt. G.
Laird, 2nd. Lts. J.W. Scott, G. Lowther, and R.H. Lascelles, Maj. W.G. Massy, Capt. G.G.S.
Carey, 2nd. Lts. J.E. Rich and A.D. Harrison, RAMC 112 men
and Lt.-Col B.W. Somerville-Large, Majors R.
Jennings and J. Osburne, and
Lt. H.R. Hine. The American will call at Queenstown for
more troops. It is noted that Col. Stackpole has rejected and condemned the
meat supplied under contract to the American.
So they will eat corned beef in place of fresh beef on the way out.
p11b The Greek
arrived at Southampton on Saturday with 28 wounded and invalided soldiers from
SA.
LT. 23/01/00
(Tuesday)
p5d The Nomadic,
with remounts. arrived at Cape Town on
Sunday. The Kildonan Castle sailed for
Durban. The transport Carinthia, with
1354 mules, left New Orleans for Cape Town on Sunday.The Nairung and the
Lindula, both from Bombay arrived at Durban and have left on Jan. 21. The Gascon left Cape Town on Saturday for
Southampton. The Severn has left Durban
for Cape Town. The Harlech Castle
arrived at Cape Town, Jan 20, from Natal.
Dateline
Gibralter, Jan. 20. The City of Rome has arrived at Gibralter.
p10b & c
Dateline Albert Docks, 22 Jan.
The Saint Andrew (6,914 tons & a main deck of 440 feet in length)
sailed from the Albert Docks this morning at 5:30 a.m. with artillery and ammunition. The Saint Andrew was taking 2 batteries of
field artillery, an ammunition column and the guns and ammunition for a siege
train, besides some other trifles. She
had to stow 360 tons of guns and vehicles and 200 tons of explosives before
embarcation proper began. She carries
15 officers, 496 men, 347 horses, 20 guns, and 65 vehicles besides the
ammunition and explosives mentioned above.
p10e & f The
Canada arrived at Southampton yesterday morning with over 200 sick and wounded
from SA. The officers on board were:
Capt. Keith Fraser, Lt. Beckwith, Lt. Goodson, Capt. Macnab,
Lt. Douglas, Capt. Buckley, Capt. Godley, Lt. Elwes, Lt. Clive, Lt.
Graham, Lt. Scott, Lt. Baker Carr, and Capt. McLeod.
The Majestic has
left Cape Town for England, Jan.
17, with the following wounded
or sick on board: Maj. Askwith is in
charge, with 4 nurses and 1 civil surgeon, Maj.-Gen. Fetherstonhaugh, Lt.
Gethin, Lts.Maxwell and Vaughan, 2nd Lt. Follett, Maj. Dalrymple
Hamilton, Lt. Fishbourne, 2nd Lt. Innes, 2nd Lt. Ackroid, Lt. Waterhouse,
and 168 men.
The Hotel Cecil
has donated 1,000 tins of turtle soup for use in the hospitals in SA.
Messrs. Wilson and Valdespino have sent 25 cases of
their brandy to Surgeon-Major McCormack, in charge, base hospital Durban.
LT. 24/01/00
(Wednesday)
p5d & e
Dateline Melbourne, Jan 23. The
transports Maori King and Moravian have started for SA.
The Assaye
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Pindari left St. Vincent
yesterday. The City of Rome left
Gibralter Jan. 23. The Yoruba has arrived at Cape Town.
p10b The
Ulstermore left Langton Dock, Liverpool, yesterday afternoon with
reinforcements for the Cape. There were
10 officers, 340 men and 274 horses for the 39th and 88 Batteries, RFA. The
Brigade Staff and an ammunition column with 10 officers, 110 men and 100
horses. Also a medical unit from ? 6
General Hospital. 12 15-pounder guns
and about 50 road vehicles, 20 of them ammunition wagons.
The American
arrived at Transport Wharf, Queenstown, yesterday at 5 p.m. She embarked
Lt. Bolton and 100 men of the
2/Yorkshire L.I.; Lt. Williams and 260
men of the 2/Wiltshire Regt., with Maj.
Du Buisson in charge; Lt. Fox
and 100 men of the 1/Liverpool Regt., Capt.
Tonge, Norfolk Regt. in charge;
100 men of the 1/Leicester Regt, Capt.
Banks, Dorset Regt. in charge;
also 4 men of the APC and 3 men of the 3/South Lancashire Regt.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
24/01/00
p5 Dateline The
1,016th Mile-Post, undated. Col. Plumer
has arrived at mile-post 1,016, near Mochudi with some of the Tuli garrison.
p12 Dateline
Gaberones, undated. Lt. Wallis has
rebuilt the bridge 3 miles south of Gaberones. Enemy encamped at Sequani and
Crocodile Pools.
Dateline Mochudi,
Jan. 14. Boer position located about
one mile south of Crocodile Pools station. Bridge over Metswaswani River
damaged.
Dateline Mochudi,
Jan 12. Armored Trains under Wallis
and Llewellyn near Gaberones mentioned here.
p14 Here a log of
the scouting trip into the Transvaal (2 cols.) Officers mentioned: Plumer,
Rolt, Villers, Pilson, Pringle, Bird, Harland, McLaren, Kinsman, Shepstone,
White, Bodle, Spain, Trevor, Stone, McClean
p21 The Carisbrook
Castle arrived yesterday. Col. Sir C.E.
Howard Vincent, KCMG, CB, MP, was among the passengers.
p24 Dateline
London, Jan. 16. A new Naval Brigade
has been formed consisting of 720 men, 8 4.7 guns, 24 Maxims, and 10
12-pounders.
Dateline London,
Jan. 17. N.S.W Contingent left Sidney.
No ship mentioned.
Dateline London,
Jan. 19. 12 Batteries of artillery, 3,710 men, 2,210 horses are ready to embark for South Africa .
Dateline London,
Jan. 20. 300 Canadians with 2 batt. of artillery have sailed from Halifax on
board the Laurentian. The Second N.Z.
Contingent of 242 men and 300 horses bemarked on board the Waiwera and sailed
for South Africa . The 2nd group of 900
Imperial City Vols. has sailed from Southampton for South Africa .
p32 The Kildonan
Castle has arrived with 5 officers and 2,592 men .
The Cymric has
also arrived with 3 Batteries of RFA (76th, 81st, & 82nd.), 2/Gloucester
Regt. total of 5 officers and 1,493 men and 430 horses. 7 men died of pneumonia
on the voyage. The Maine arrived
yesterday.
LT. 25/01/00
(Thursday)
p5c Dateline
Rangoon, Jan. 24. 350 mounted infantry left with Burma
ponies to-day on the Palamcotta for Durban under command of Maj. Cruickshank, Essex Regt.
The Kinfauns
Castle left Madeira at 10 a.m. yesterday for the Cape. The Simla, for Southampton, left St. Vincent at 6:40 p.m. Tuesday and the Persia,
for Table Bay arrived at Las Palmas at 5:40 p.m. Tuesday. The Micmac,
from Boston , arrived at St.
Vincent on Tuesday and left for the Cape yesterday.
Dateline Cape
Town, Jan 23. News has been received
here that the transport Manchester Corporation, with troops and guns on board,
which was due here to-day, was sighted on the 13th inst. 8deg.
south, apparently disabled. The
transport Cymric has been despatched to her assistance.
p10a The
Manhattan, at Royal Albert Dock, is to
begin to-day to embark the Brigade Division of Field Artillery, which she is to
take out to the Cape, as part of the artillery reinforcement of 12 batteries
which is being sent off during the present week. Embarking are the 17th Battery, the 15th Brigade Ammunition
Column with the staff of the brigade division, making 284 officers and men and
239 horses. On Saturday the Manhattan
will embark, at Queenstown, the 5th and 9th Batteries, increasing her load to
637 officers and men, 513 horses, 18 guns, and 51 carts and wagons.
The Howitzer
Brigade Division, completing the 12 batteries,
will embark on Saturday at the Royal Albert Dock in the Canning and the
Englishman.
Listing of names
of more of the CIV.
LT. 26/01/00
(Friday)
p5b The Kildonan
Castle and the Jelunga arrived at Natal yesterday. The Fazilka, from Bombay, arrived at Durban Wednesday and the
Persia left Las Palmas Wednesday.
p6b & c
Dateline Albert Docks, Jan.
25. The Manhattan (8,003 tons)
sailed from here this afternoon as transport 81. Details were covered in yesterdays column. The Manhattan will only be able to carry a 6
days supply of fresh meat and then take on another two days supply at
St. Vincent. For the first 6 days the men will have Irish stew for breakfast
and fresh meat for dinner and then the same for two days after St. Vincent.
The rest of the voyage will be:
Sunday breakfast Fried ham, Dinner Soup and bouilli, Chicago
beef, and plum pudding.
Monday breakfast Curried beef and rice, Dinner Pea-soup and
salt pork
Tuesday breakfast Porridge and golden syrup, Dinner Soup and
bouilli, salt beef
Wednesday breakfast American dry hash, Dinner Pea-soup, salt
pork
Thursday breakfast Curried mutton and rice, Dinner Soup and
bouilli, salt beef
Friday breakfast Salt fish, sauce and potatoes, Dinner
Pea-soup and salt pork
Saturday breakfast Porridge and golden syrup, Dinner Soup
and bouilli and salt beef.
Tea - Cold meats, margarine, jam or marmalade, tea. Coffee every day at breakfast and at 6 a.m.
Fresh bread and fresh potatoes every day and other vegetables 3 times a week.
LT. 27/01/00
(Saturday)
p7b Dateline
Adelaide, Jan. 26. The South Australian contingent for SA
sailed to-day in the Surrey.
The Goorkha and the Manchester Corporation
arrived at Cape Town Thursday. The Gaul
arrived at Teneriffe yesterday and left later for the Cape. The Manchester Port has arrived at Las
Palmas. The Ottoman left Cape Town for
England Jan. 25.
LT. 29/01/00
(Monday)
p5e Dateline
Halifax (N.S.), Jan 27. The
Pomeranian left for South Africa at 6 oclock this evening with 350 men of the
2/Canadian Mounted Rifles.
The Braemar
Castle arrived at Cape Town on Friday.
The Britannic arrived at Cape Town on Saturday evening. The Siberian and the British Prince arrived
at Cape Town yesterday. The City of Rome has arrived at St. Vincent and the St. Andrew passed Las Palmas yesterday. The Pekin, from Bombay arrived at Durban on
the 25th.
Dateline Bombay,
Jan.28. The Upada left to-day for Natal
with 320 reserve horses, a transport section, 12 15-pounder guns, and six
4.7 naval guns. Col. Mackenzie, Suffolk Regt. commanding.
p10b The third
contingent of the CIV left London, for Southampton, Saturday morning. There
were 135 officers and men. They
embarked in the Pembroke Castle and sailed for South Africa Saturday afternoon.
The Scot also
sailed Saturday with the following passengers: Col. Viscount Valentia, Maj.
the Earl of Dudley, Lord Wolverton, Capt. the Hon. Walter L. Bagot, Sir Charles Hunter, Col. Edmondstone, Col. Nixon, Bt.-Col. Le
Gallais, Maj. Rankin, Capt. Fane Tucker, and Mr. F.R. Burnham, scout.
Dateline
Southampton, Jan 28. The Cephalonia
sailed today having on board the 1/Berkshire Regt., 736 men, 3/Royal Fusiliers,
120 men , and RGA, 120 men, some women and children for Gibralter. The officers were Lt.-Col.F.C. Carter,
Majors E.H.Burney and C.M. Edwards, Captains H.L. Lee, R.G. Chase, A.J.W.
Dowell, J.R. Wigan and G.H. Arbuthnot, and six Lts. and 2nd Lts. of the
Berkshire Regt.. Captains Turner and
Edwards are going to Gibralter.
A further
contingent of Imperial Yeomanry embarked in the Winifredian (#78)
yesterday at Langdon Dock, Liverpool,
yesterday. She embarked Nos. 9, 10, 11, and 12 of the I.Y., a total of
578 men with 457 horses. No. 9 Co., the Yorkshire Hussars, numbered 122
men under Capt. Trench Gascoyne, and Lts.
McKillop, Beresford-Peirse, and Wilson.
No. 10 Co., the Sherwood
Rangers, 121 men under Capt Dawson and Lts.
Peacock, Sheriffe, and Williams, Lt.
Wilson will join them at the Cape.
No. 11 Co., the Yorkshire
Dragoons, , 115 men under Capt.
Younghusband and Lts.
Crichton-Browne, Doxat, and Jeffcock.
No. 12 Co. the South Notts, under Capt. Rolleston, and Lts. Starkey, Birkin, Knowles, and Tristram. Other officers of the staff of the 3rd, 4th,
& 5th Battalions going out are: Lt.-Cols.
Myrick and F.G. Blair, Major
Braithwaite, Captains Anderson, E.J. Piper, Ewing, and S. Wombwell, Lt. Duncombe, Lt. & Q.M. J. Humphries, and Vet.-Lt. F.
Douthwaite.
A Derbyshire
contingent of 116 under Capt. Dugdale,
with Lts. Byron, Gisbourne, Bagshawe
and Power, Dr. Wilson, and
Vet.-Lt. Aulton. embarked in the Cavour (#83) at Langton
Dock. The Staffordshier contingent of
116 men under Capt. Bromley-Davenport,
M.P. with Lts. Moat, Wright-Boycott,
Gardner, and Clay embarked about mid-night Saturday. She also took on board ? 6 and ? 8 Companies of Imperial Yeomanry. The Cavour sailed at 4 oclock in the
morning for South Africa .
p10e The 12th
Brigade Division of Artillery, consisting of the 43rd, 86th, and 87th Batteries
(Howitzer) RFA, with the brigade staff and some details sailed from the Albert
Docks yesterday morning in the Englishman and the Canning.
The Englishman
embarked the 43rd and the 86th Batteries and the staff, Lt.-Col. Waldron commanding. She takes a draft of 2 officers and 90 men
of the Northamptonshire Regt., and has on board 16 officers, 496 men, 341
horses, and 12 guns.
The Canning
carries 87th Battery, Major Balfour commanding, some remounts, ? 5 Stationary
Hospital, and a quantity of stores for the Yeomanry Hospital, her load being 9
officers, 230 men, 203 horses, 6 guns and 12 vehicles.
The transport
Manhattan reached Queenstown at 9 oclock yesterday morning. She took on the 5th and 9th Batteries, RFA,
composed of 9 officers, 340 men, 274 horses, 12 guns, and 22 vehicles. The officers of the 5th Battery are
Maj. Lane, Capt. Stewart, and Lts. Gray and Roberts; and the 9th Battery Maj. Wedderburn, Capt. Wilson, and Lts. Bird,
Addison, and Hamilton. Civil Surgeon
George Mowat also joined.
p11b The Carlton
Hotel Company has donated for the use of the base hospitals in Natal and the
Cape 4,500 quarts of beef tea and chicken broth.
LT. 30/01/00
(Tuesday)
p5d The Ariosto
has arrived at St. Vincent
yesterday. The Ujina, Nairung, and the
Lawada arrived at Port Natal on the 26th, all from Bombay. The Kildonan Castle left Natal for Cape Town
on the 26th.
p6b The Manhattan
left Queenstown yesterday afternoon for Cape Town after embarking 13 officers,
340 men 300 horses, and 12 guns of the 5th and 9th Batteries, RFA. She now carried altogether 637 officers and
men, 513 horses, 18 gins, and 51 field carts and wagons.
LT. 31/01/00
(Wednesday)
p5c The Umbria and
the Briton arrived at Cape Town on
Monday evening. The American has left
Las Palmas and the Ariosto has left St.
Vincent .
p10c & d The
Dictator is to leave Southampton to-morrow and Queenstown on Saturday with
reinforcements for 2/Lincolnshire Regt., 1/Royal Irish Regt., 2/Hampshire
Regt., 2/Norfolk Regt., 2/Gloucestershire Regt., 1/Lancashire Regt., and
2/North Staffordshire Regt, a total of 835.
At Southampton on Saturday the German will take on ? 14 Co. and ? 17 Cos. RGA.
p14 a, b & c
The Defeat and Death of the Khalifa.
From the London Gazette of Jan.
30. 1900. Lord Kitcheners
report. Maxse mentioned.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
31/01/00
p3 Dateline
Gaberones, Jan. 17. Capt. MacLaren
has found the Boer main laager 10 miles south of Gaberones. He also found Boers on Basuto Kopje. In the
afternoon British occupied Basuto Kopje.
Dateline Lourenco
Marques, Jan. 23. The Russian Ambulance Corps ( 33 members) arrived here today
on board the Gironde
p5 Dateline
Melbourne, Jan. 23 The Maori King and Moravian sailed for South Africa today
with the Queensland and NSW parts of the Second Contingent.
p12 The Briton
arrived on Monday with 251 C.I.V. under Col. Cholmondeley. The Garth Castle is
due today with a Bn. of C.I.V.
LT. 01/02/00
(Thursday)
p5d The Ulstermore
and the Laurentian have arrived at St.
Vincent .
p10d Dateline
Albert Docks, Jan 31. The British
Princess sailed from here to-day with the Howitzer Ammunition Column belonging
to the brigade division RFA, and drafts and
details amounting to 11 officers, 374 men, and 337 horses.
Dateline
Southampton , Jan. 31. The Goth has sailed from here for the Cape with 20 officers, 240
men and 240 horses of the I.Y. Officers listed include: Capt. J.E.B. Seely, Maj. C. Heseltine, Capt. R.A.
Johnson, Lt. G. Heseltine, 2nd Lt. B.E. Greenwell, Capt.
J.R. Harvey, Lts. W. Raymond Greene, H.E. Crawley, R.O. Kerrison,
and J,C. Buxton.
p10f The
Admiralty has requisitioned the Arundel Castle. The owners of the Denton Grange, now ashore at Las Palmas , have
abandoned her to the underwriters. The
Monterey has been chartered to take Strathconas Horse to South Africa . The Montezuma has arrived at New Orleans to
load 2,000 mules for the Cape.
LT. 02/02/00
(Friday)
p5c Dateline
Colombo, Feb.1. The Ceylon
contingent, 130 strong, embarked to-day in the Umkuzi. Capt.
Toogood, Warwickshire Regt.,
accompanied the contingent.
The America
arrived at Cape Town on Wednesday. The
Assaye left Cape Town yesterday, with invalids, for Southampton .
The Minha, with
stores, arrived at Port Natal Jan.27.
The Pekin and Lawada, from Natal, and the Isleworth, from Rosario, have
arrived at Cape Town .
The Harlech
Castle arrived at Port Elizabeth on Wednesday from Cape Town . The Kildonan Castle arrived at Cape Town
Jan. 23 from Natal.
p11b & c
Dateline Southampton , Feb 1.
The Dictator left Southampton to-day at 2 p.m. She carried 12 officers
and 549 men, mixed reinforcements. The
officers were Maj. Apthorpe, Lts. Hughes, the Hon. F.D. Morgan, L.
Raynsford, Goodwin, Brooke, E.
McDonnell, and Holland, and 2nd
lts. Acton, Parker, Elphinstone and
Anderson.
Scheduled for
departure are:
Ss Monteagle,
(#37), Feb. 2, Liverpool, Langton Dock,
Nos. 1, 4, & 5, Cos. I.Y., Hospital Staff, Veterinary Staff,
Servants, Machine Gun Section, and Base Depot Staff.
Ss German,
(Freight Ship), Feb. 3, Southampton ,
Nos. 14 & 17 Cos, RGA
Ss Montfort,
(#53), Feb. 3, Royal Albert Dock, City
of London Imp. Vol., Batt.
HAC, ? 40 Co. IY, Irish
Hospital.
Ss Canada, (#69),
Feb.3, Southampton , feb. 5 Queenstown,
RGA, ? 10 east, and ? 2, 5 & 10 West, Drafts of: 2/East Kent,
2/Bedfordshire, 2/Cheshire, 1/West Riding, 1/Oxfordshire L.I., 2/Royal Irish
Rifles, and 1/Munster Fusiliers, Regts., Post Office Corps, and Det. ? 6 Gen. Hospital.
Ss Kent, (#85),
Feb. 4, Royal Albert Dock, IY Cos., #7,
#8, and #29, Hospital Staff, Veterinary Staff, and remounts.
Ss Kumara,
(Freight Ship), Feb. 7, Royal Albert
Dock, ? 15 Co. Worcestershire and
Remounts.
Ss Afric, (Freight Ship), Feb. 11, Liverpool, Nos. 23 & 24 Cos. IY, Hospital Staff, Veterinary Staff, Servants and remounts.
p11e The Malta has
been chartered by the Government. The
Majestic arrived at Southampton yesterday.
LT. 03/02/00 (Saturday)
p7d Dateline
Calcutta, Feb. 2. The following have been named for service
with Lumsdens Horse: Col. Showers,
Capts. Rutherford, and Chamney,
Lts. Sidney, H. Pugh, W.
Clifford, Holmes, S. Neville, D.
Neville, and Crane
The Nile arrived
at Cape Town on Thursday. The Umbria
left Cape Town for Port Elizabeth and East London. The Princess of Wales, hospital ship, left Cape Town on Thursday
for Southampton with 174 military invalids.
The Formosa left
Cape Town for Durban on Feb. 1. The Urlana arrived at Algoa Bay from Bombay
on Feb. 1. The Pembroke Castle arrived at Madeira at 1 a.m. yesterday and
left at noon for Cape Town . The
Cephalonia arrived at Gibralter yesterday with 1,072 officers and men.
p12a & b The
Monteagle embarked the 13th, 14th & 15th (see Monteagle above) Companies IY
and sailed from Liverpool
yesterday. 336 and the following
officers: Maj. Vaux, Capts. Wood, Bates and Clayton, Lts. Gurney, Money, Jones, Dodds, Chrisp, Place,
Powell, Backhouse, Ralfin Grey, and Carr-Ellison.
Enteric Fever -
Steps have been taken to vaccinate against enteric fever any of the I.Y. who
desire it. Where possible this will be
done on board transports.
Another list of
the CIV here.
p12c Honours for
the battle of Colenso.
LT. 05/02/00
(Monday)
p5c & d
Dateline Cape Town , Feb.
3. Official advice has been
received here that telegraphic communication has been restored from the north
with Gaberones, about 90 miles north of Mafeking, and that thence a bi-weekly
service of runners has been instituted for the conveyance to Mafeking of
letters and telegrams. (Field Glasses)
Dateline Durban,
Jan 31. The hospital ship Maine has
arrived here.
Dateline Perth,
Feb. 3. Fifty Western Australians, with horses, have embarked on the
Surrey at Fremantle for South Africa .
The Glengyle and
the Garth Castle arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The Warrigal arrived at Durban on the 1st. The Aurania arrived at Cape Town
Saturday. Las Palmas reports the
arrival of the Canning, the Cavour, and the Englishman.
p10b Dateline
Southampton , Feb.4. The Canada
embarked ,at Southampton, 1,179 men, 86 officers and 19 horses. The men for the most part were from RGA,
1/East Kent Regt., Post Office Corps and Royal Irish Rifles. She will take on more troops at
Queenstown. She has on board the
following officers: Royal Artillery, Bt.
Col. C. M.
Western, Lt.-Col. P. Saltmarshe; RGA, Maj. F.W.G. Tothill, Lts. A.S.P. McGhee, R.T. Russell, Capts. Budd and McCulloch; ASC, Lt.-Col. L.A. Hope; Royal Marine L.I., Lt.Cols. W.T. Adair, T.J.P. Evans, G.T. Onslow, Majs. H.C. Money, F.White, Capts. A.R.H. Hutchinson, H.M. Howard; Royal Marine
Artillery, Lt.-Col. J.B. Leefe, Capts. G.F. Barnes, E.R. Cottingham; Indian Staff
Corps, Capt. Armstrong; Poona Light
Horse, Maj. M.E. Carthew-Yorstoun;
2/Seaforth Highlanders, Maj. G. Mackintosh, Capt. E.R. Bradford,; 1/Suffolk Regt., Maj. W.R. de la P. Lloyd, Lts. C.E. Foster, A.P. Frankland; 3/Suffolk
Regt. Capt. the Hon. G. Cadogan; 2/Suffolk Regt, Capt. W.
Keates, Lt. F.A. White; 2/West
Riding Regt., Maj. F.M.H. Marshall;
Welsh Regt., Capt. A.H.W. Tindall;
Highland L.I., Capt. G.C. Stockwell,
Lt. T.F. Murray; Royal Fusiliers,
Capt. W.B. Hickle, ; 2/Dragoons,
Lt. T.
Connolly; Northumberland Fusiliers, Capt. R.S. Heard; Kent Art., Lt.
C.E. Schlesinger; 5/Royal Warwick, 2nd Lt. R.S. Mackenzie; 1/Royal Scots, Lt. A.C. Pratt; 2/Royal Scots, Lt.
D.C.H. Maclean; 3/KOSB, Lt. Sir
W. Jardine; CG, 2nd. Lts.
C.P. Heywood, and R.B. Smith; 16th Lancers, 2nd Lt. H.C. Upton; 10th Co. E.
Div. RGA, Maj. C.E. Jervois, Capt. C.V. Davidson, Lt. J.A. FitzGibbon, 2nd Lts.
J.T. Pegg-Thompson, A.F. McKenzie, 2nd Co. West Div. RGA, Maj. F.A. Curteis, Capt. H.C. Marshall, 2nd Lts. E.N. Tandy, G.T.A. Drought, R. Hoskin; 6th Co. Western Div. RGA.,
Maj. G.T.F. Talbot, Capt. H.L. Kirke, 2nd Lts. P.J. Spicer, F.E. Andrews, G.P. MacClellan;
10th Co. Western Div. RGA., Maj.
F.E. Kent, 2nd Lts. C.H. Clark,
W.A.B. Parken, E.F. Johnson; Royal Irish Rifles, Bt. Maj. A.H. Festing, Capts.
A.C.D. Spencer, J. Spottiswoode
(attached), Lts. A.H. Kennedy, H.L.
Low, 2nd Lt. J.C. Bowen-Colthurst; Post
Office Corps, Capts. A. Palmer, F.A. Labouchere, Lts. S.C. Curtis,
P.J. Preece; 2/East Kent Regt., Lt.
C.A. Colley; 2/Welsh Fusiliers, Lt.
H.R. Eliot; Civil Surgeons (? 6 Gen.
Hospital), Mr. E.L.
Parry-Edwards, Mr. R.D. Maxwell,
Mr. P.C.T. Ingram, Mr. J.
Owen, Mr. R.D. Parker, Mr. H.F. Shea; Chaplains Dept., Rev. R.H. Nash; Civil Surgeons, Mr. F.B. Courrilian and Mr. Percy Stewart; Irish Hospital, Dr. Coleman.
Also 2nd Lt. A.H. Sauer, RGA,
for Mauritius and trooper T. Lewes,
Ceylon Mtd. Inf.
The German
embarked the following passengers, Sir C.
and Lady Champion De-Crespigny, Admiral Herbert, Lady Slacke and the
sister of Gen. Woodgate. She carried the following officers of the
RGA: Maj. M.B.G. Jackson, Capt. E.C. Harrington, Lt. J.E.S. Spink, 2nd Lts. L. Galloway, and F.C. Leah; Maj. W.L. Brook Smith, Capt. R.E. Warden, Lts. W.H. Ravenhill, G.N. Rawson Scott, F.W. Barron. The German also casrried the following Naval
officers: Acting Lts. H. Hutchinson, E.E. Cadon, H.W. Randall;
Sub-Lt. R.G.W. Mason; Midshipmen, L.G.R.
Lloyd, G. Hilhouse, W.Hunt, B. Reinold, G.
Henson, H. Darling, H.T.R.
Trischler, B.C. Walker, H. E. Harvey; Cadets B. Denison, S.C. Douglas, and C.H. Jones.
The Dictator
embarked at Queenstown drafts for 2/Norfolk Regt., 2/Gloucestershire Regt.,
2/North Staffordshire Regt., and the East Lancashire Regt., making a total of
18 officers and 873 men.
The Canada
arrived ar Queenstown on Saturday evening.
She will embark drafts for the 2/ Bedfordshire Regt., 2/Cheshire Regt.,
1/ West Riding Regt., 1/Oxfordshire Regt., and the 1/Munster fusiliers and some
details. She will leave this afternoon.
LT. 06/02/00
(Tuesday)
p5b The Bavarian
arrived at Cape Town on Saturday. The
Woolloomooloo arrived at Cape Town , Feb.
3 with stores. The Harlech
Castle arrived at Natal Friday. The
Lismore Castle left Natal Saturday for Cape Town . The Purnea has arrived at Durban. The Pembroke Castale arrived at Las Palmas yesterday at 3 p.m.
and left at 6 p.m.
Dateline Albany,
Feb. 5. The Lincolnshire, conveying New Zealand medical staff and nurses,
has sailed for the Cape.
Dateline Halifax,
Feb. 4. The Milwaukee arrived to-night from New Orleans to embark the
remainder of the second Canadian contingent for the Cape.
p10b (Field
Glasses)
p11b & c The
Canada arrived at Queenstown Saturday with 1,237 officers and men already on board. At Queenstown, yesterday afternoon, she embarked an additional 18 officers and
823 men of the Bedfordshire, Cheshire, West Riding Regiments, the Oxfordshire
L.I. and the Munster Fusiliers. She
also embarked a cobsiderable quantity of tobacco and war material.
The Armenian will
leave Southampton on Thursday.
Order for
Lee-Enfield rifles placed with B.S.A. Co.
LT. 07/02/00
(Wednesday)
p5b The Kinfauns
Castle arrived at Cape Town at 6 p.m. Monday with 105 CIV on board. The Formosa arrived at Durban yesterday from
Cape Town . The Goth arrived at
Teneriffe yesterday and left the same day for Cape Town . The Gaul with 200 CIV arrived at St. Helena Monday. The British Princess passed Las Palmas .
Cape Times Weekly Edition
07/02/00
p1 Dateline Durban, 30 Jan. The Maine arrived yesterday and comes into
the harbor today. The Avoca will leave for England this week with 400 sick and
wounded.
p5 Dateline
Crocodile Pools Jan. 23. Sqdns. H, B.
L, Z of the RR under Maj. Bird made an attack on the Boer Laager.
Dateline
Gaberones, Jan. 26. Col. Plumers 12.5
pounder was used against an Boer position on a hill west of Basuto Kopje.
p6 The latest
arrivals at Table Bay are:
Aurania With the N. Staffordshire Regt., 2 cos. ordnance,
and a draft for Berkshire Regt.
Bavarian Brought South Wales Borderers and E.
Lancashire Regt.
Glengyle Brought an ammunition column and some
details.
Spartan arrived yesterday with sick and wounded
from Natal.
Dateline Lourence
Marques, Feb. 5. The Jburg, Standard
and Diggers News of Feb. 2 states that the Russian Ambulance Corps will soon
leave for Volksrust and a nimber of Belgian Red Cross, under Dr. Cohen, leaves
tomorrow for Mafeking.
p14 The
6/Warwickshire Regt. is at Green Point. Listed are: Col. H. McCalmont, Majs.
J.E.R. Campbell, G.D.E.H. Fullerton, Capts. A. Kelso, E.W. Davies, J.B.L.
Astley, C.H.L. Beatty, H.E. du C. Norris, A.E. Williams, C.J. Phillips, Lts.
J.E.N. Heseltine, C.A. Madge, C.F.P. Hamilton, G.H. Hodgson, W.J.F. Renton, H.
Norris, G.H.W. Lacon, J.C. Lancaster, R.R. Redman, R.T. Tudor-Owen, C.M. Yates,
R. McCalmont, M. Corse-Scott, Capt. & Adj. Brown, Lt. & Qm. Hall, and
Mr. Young Cifil Surgeon.
The Nile disembarked
the 4/R. Lancaster Regt. & 9/Kings Royal Rifles. The America, Galeka, and
Uganda are unloading stores at South Arm.
LT. 08/02/00
(Thursday)
p5c The
Winifredian and Manhattan left St.
Vincent yesterday.
p10a Dateline
Albert Docks, Feb. 7. Four Cos.
I.Y., numbering 22 officers, 468 men and 338 horses embarked today in
the Kent (5,464 tons) and the Kumara (3,016 tons). Nos. 7, 28, and 29 Cos in
the Kent and No. 16 Co. in the Kumara. The Kumara carries 7 officers, 119 men and 144 horses. The officers embarked are: Col. Lord Alwyne Compton, Col. Parry, Major Eyton, Captains Dundas, T.E.
Harrison, Crabbe, Selwyn, Lieutenants W.F. Byron, Wrigley, Mainwaring, Lutley,
Nettleford, Knight, The Hon. G. Hamilton, the Hon. P. Evans Freke, R.W.
Ritchie and W. Martin.
The menu for the
Kumara:
Sunday; Breakfast, porridge and milk, fish, curry and rice,
bread and butter, tea or coffee; Dinner,
soup, Fresh meat, potatoes, bread, pudding.
Monday; Breakfast, dry hash, bread and butter, tea or
coffee; Dinner, soup, fresh meat, potatoes,
bread, pudding.
Tuesday; Breakfast, Bacon, bread and butter, tea or coffee;
Dinner, Soup, fresh meat, potatoes,
bread, pudding.
Wednesday; Breakfast, porridge and milk, fish, curry and
rice, bread and butter, tea or coffee;
Dinner, Soup, fresh meat, potatoes, bread, pudding.
Thursday; Breakfast, Steak, bread and butter, tea or coffee;
Dinner, soup, fresh meat, potatoes,
bread, pudding.
Friday; Breakfast, porridge and milk, fish, Irish stew, bread
and butter, tea or coffee; Dinner,
soup, salt fish, meat pies, potatoes, bread, pudding.
Saturday; Breakfast, bacon, bread and butter, tea or coffee;
Dinner, soup, salt or fresh meat,
pickles, potatoes, bread.
Tea and supper each day - Tea; cold meat, tea, bread and
butter, pickles, jam, and marmalade; supper bread or extra Navy biscuit, butter
and cheese.
p10f The Dunera
arrived at Queenstown Tuesday. She
embarked, yesterday, 8 officers, 2 warrant officers, and 830 men, and women and
children of the 2/Leicestershire Regt.
for duty in Egypt.
LT. 09/02/00
(Friday)
p5c The Pindari
arrived at Cape Town on Wednesday. The
Muttra, from Bombay, arrived at Port Natal yesterday. The Pomeranian passed St.
Vincent yesterday morning.
p6b & c
Dateline Southampton, Feb.
8. The Armenian sailed at 3:05
p.m. this afternoon with the 7th Dragoon Guards, (24 officers, 500 men, 475
horses), a draft of the 2/Northamptonshire Regt. (100 men), ? 3 Co. ASC (3
officers, 1 warrant officer, 57 men) , ? 20 Bearer Co., RAMC (1 officer, 1
warrant officer, 51 men), and details.
The following were the officers: Lt.-Col. W.H.M. Lowe, in command; Majors J.W.P Peters, H.S. Follett, B.R.
Dietz, and W.J. Macheson; Captains
G. Langworthy and H.A. Lampriere; Capt.
& Adj. J.E.F. Dyre; Lieutenants
N.D.H. Campbell, W.R.H. Jenkins, W.F. Chappell, W.S. Wetherly, W.M.C. du
Q. Caillard, and C.J. Vaughan; 2nd
Lieutenants J.L. Mansel, F.C. Watson, and A.G. Jerrard; Lt. & Q.M. F.C.
Butcher, Veterinary Lt. Willis, and
Surgeon Aymand. ? 3 Co. A.S.C. Major G.H. Cardew, Captain Hayward,
Lieutenants H.M. Farmer and A.G. Galloway.
? 20 Bearer Co., R.A.M.C. Major C.
C. Reilly, Captain T.P. Jones,
and Lieut. C.S. Cate. Lieut.
A.V. Richardson, 3/Cheshire Regt., Capt. H. McConaghey and Lieut.-
Col. C.V.F. Townshend, Indian Staff
Corps.
The following are
particulars of embarcations:
Mount Royal, Liverpool, Feb 6, Freight Ship, Remounts for
Yeomanry
Victorian, Tilbury Dock, Feb. 14, #65, 17the lancers, drafts 2/Lancashire Fusiliers, Det. ? 8
Gen. Hosp., details.
Narrung, Royal Albert Dock, Feb. 9, #23, R.E. Drafts for 1/Life Guards, 2/Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards, 6/Dragoon Guards, Remounts,
Det. ? 7 Gen. Hosp. Field Hospital(American Section), Details.
Norman, Southampton, Feb.
10, #10, Freight Ship, Mos.
37,38 & 39 Cos. I.Y.,
Yeomanry Hospital, Xth Bn. Staff, Medical Staff, Veterinary Staff,
Servants.
Pavonia, Southampton , Feb.
10, #13, 1/Royal Sussex Regt., Det.
R.A.M.C., Det. ? 7 Gen. Hospital.
Sicilian, Royal Albert Dock, Feb. 14, #57, M.I. 4th Cav.
Brig., 1st Sqdn. 8th Hussars,
Drafts for 1st Dragoons and 19th
Hussars, ? 20 Field Hospital.
Simla, Southampton , Feb.11, #2, 1/Camron Highlanders,
Drafts 2/Seaforth Highlanders, Det.
? 7 Gen. Hospital., Details.
Malta, Royal Albert Dock, Feb. 10, Freight Ship, 6/Lancashire Fusiliers, Drafts for 2/West Yorkshire Regt., 1/Suffolk Regt.,
1/Argyil & Southerland Highlanders, Det.
? 5 Gen. Hospital, Details.
Majestic, Southampton , Feb. 11, #68, 3/Welsh Regt., 3/Royal Lancaster Regt., Drafts for 3/Grenadier Guards, 1 & 2 Coldstream
Guards, 1/Scots Guards, 1/Highland L.I., Det.? 7 Gen. Hospital, Yeomanry Hospital, Details.
Norseman, Liverpool, Feb.
10, Queenstown, Feb. 13, #80,
8th Hussars, Det. 7th DG, Drafts
for 8th DG, 2nd Dns, 5th Lancers,
9th Lancers, 14 & 18 Hussars, 2/Duke of Cornwalls L.I., Det.
? 10 Field Hospital, Details, Remounts.
Arundel Castle, Southampton , Feb. 10, Queenstown, Feb. 12,
Freight Ship, 4/South
Staffordshire Regt., Detachments of 4/Royal Lancaster Regt, 6/Royal
Warwickshire Regt., 3/South
Lancashire Regt., 4/Derbyshire Regt., 9/ K.R.R.C., 3/Durham L.I., 4/Argyil
& Southerland Highlanders,
Drafts for 2/R.F., 2/R.S.F., 1/R.W.F., 2/Somersetshire L.I., Det. ? 8 Gen. Hospital.
Cheshire, Southampton , Feb. 12, Queenstown, Feb 14, #43, 2/S.W.B, Drafts for, 16th Lancers, 2/Royal Highlanders, 1/Connaught Rangers,
Det. ? 8 Gen. Hospital, Details.
Servia, Southampton , Feb.
12, Queenstown, Feb. 14, #31,
3/East Lancashire Regt., 5/Royal
Dublin Fusiliers, Draft for 2/Seaforth Highlanders, ? 7 Gen. Hospital, Details.
Pinemore, Southampton , Feb. 12, Queenstown, Feb. 14,
#67, Det. 17th Lancers, "M
Battery, R.H.A., Ammunition Column,
4th Cav. Brigade. Drafts for 6/Dragoons, Det. ? 8 Gen. Hospital, Remounts.
p6e Article on
"The Improved Lee Straight Pull Rifle ( Lee Navy)
LT. 10/02/00
(Saturday)
p7d The Braemar
Castle arrived at Natal Thursday and the Medic left Cape Town on Thursday for
Australia.
The German
arrived at Teneriffe yesterday morning
and left in the afternoon for the Cape.
p9c & d.
Dateline Albert Docks, Feb.
9. The Narrung (#23) sailed from
here this afternoon with 6 officers, 196 men, and 190 horses. They were: 6th D.G. 1 officer and 105 men;
R.H.G. 1 officer and 20 men; 1/L.G. 20 men; 2/L.G. 20 men; R.E. 1 officer and
21 men; American Field Hospital Section 1 officer and 10 men; The horses
include 5 officers and 185 cobs for remounts.
Dateline ,
Southampton , Feb. 9. The Simla will not sail as scheduled due
to a fire on board.
LT. 12/02/00
(Monday)
p5e The Manchester
Port arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Hortensius, from New York arrived at Cape Town Friday with 25,000
bales of hay. The Britannic left Cape
Town Saturday with invalids for Southampton and the British Prince left Cape
Town February 7 for London. The
Dictator passes Las Palmas at midnight February 9.
Dateline Las
Palmas , Feb 11. The Montfort arrived
here yesterday at noon and sailed at 6 p.m. for South Africa .
p10a & b
Dateline Southampton, Feb 11. The Norman sailed yesterday with some
distinguished passengers, including the Duke of Westminster, Lord Cecil
Manners, Lady Beatrice Kemp, Mr. W. Murray Guthrie, M.P., Miss Addams Williams
(Superintendent nursing sister and 10 sisters), Mr. C.B. Ismay, the Hon.
Mrs. Neeld, Mr. H.F. Wilson and a number of officers. The following are Imperial Yeomanry: Staff.
Col. Lord Chesham, Maj. Eric Smith, Capt. E.I. Viat, RAMC, Vet.
Surgeon Jaggeeht, and Q.M. C.
Grant. Bucks Hussars,
Capts. W. de Winton, and W.A.W. Lawson,
Lts. J.L. Reid, Whittaker,
P. Percival, C.C. Baillie, A.V.
Poynter, and W.H. McDowell. Berks
Yeo., Lt.-Col. Ricardo and Lts. H.A. Eyre, Bishop, Lord Norreys, and G. Ayres. Lord Lochs Corps, Capt.
Brown and Lts., Savile, Haldane, Kennedy, and Knott.
The Pavonia
sailed with 3/Northumberland Fusiliers for Malta and 577 men of the 1/Royal
Sussex for Gibralter. The officers of
the 1/Royal Sussex were: Maj. Scaife,
Capt. A.R. Gilbert, and Lts. J.B. Wroughton, A. Gouldsmith, J.E. Harden, R.E. Paget, H.G. Montgomerie, Anderson,
Leachman, and Blake, also a Civil Surgeon, Mr.
W. Watkins Pitchford.
The Arundel
Castle sailed with drafts of 6/Royal Lancaster, 6/Royal Warwickshire, 3/South
Lancaster, 3/Durham L.I., 9/ Kings Royal Rifles, 2/ Royal Fusiliers, 2/ Royal
Scots Fusiliers, and 1/Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
The officers were: Lts. Hibbert
and Guyon, R.F., Lt. Bassett, R.S.F.,
Lts. Hoskins and Ellis, R.W.F., and
Lts. Armstrong and Ashton, the Y. &
L. Regt.
The Doune Castle
sailed with 3 officers and the following Companies of 113 men each: Norfolk
Regt., Suffolk Regt., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, East Lancashire Regt., Hampshire
Regt. and the Royal Warwickshire Regt.
Dateline Albert
Docks, Feb. 10. The following embarked in the Malta to-day:
6/Lancashire Fusiliers, 24 officers and 628 men, Lt.-Col. Romer commanding; 2/West Yorkshire Regt., 2
officers and 150 men, Lt. Lowe,
commanding; 2/Yorkshire L.I., 2 officers and 104 men; 1/Suffolk Regt., 4
officers and 200 men, Capt. Hopkins
commanding; 1/Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, 2 officers and 200 men, Capt
Irmida commanding. With the RAMC the
total was 35 officers and 1285 men, col.
Romer in command.
Dateline
Liverpool Feb. 11. The Afric embarked 2 companies of I.Y. today
at the Canada Dock. They were the 23rd
and 24th and a number of horses. They
number 13 officers, 270 men and 290 horses.
At the Alexandria Dock on Saturday the Norseman embarked 14 officers,
445 men and 336 horses of the 8th Hussars and 1 officer, 114 men of the 14th
Hussars. Some of the officers shipped
were: Capts. Lempriere and Corbeit and
Lt. Haig, 7th DG, Lt. A.S. Trower, 9th Lancers, 2nd Lt. F.R. Otter, 5th Dragoons, and Lts. C.W.H. Otway, and J.F. Rhodes, 2nd Dragoons,
Lt. Ready, Duke of Cornwalls L.I., 2nd
Lt. J.E.C. Darley, 5th Lancers, 2nd Lt. G.V. Webster, 18th Hussars, and Civil
Surgeon K.B. Alexander.
The Mount Royal
shipped over 1,000 horses, 1,250 tons of hay, 225 tons of bran, 5,000 bushels
of oats, 100 tons of peat moss and 50 tons of Canadian fodder. She sailed Saturday.
LT. 13/02/00
(Tuesday)
p5b The Persis
arrived at Cape Town on Sunday. The
Nomadic left Port Elizabeth yesterday for Durban. The Monteagle has left St.
Vincent for the Cape. The assaye
arrived at St. Vincent on Sunday with
invalids for Southampton .
Dateline St. Vincent , Feb.12 The Canada coaled here
to-day and has departed.
p11a & b.
Dateline Southampton Feb.
12. The Majestic sailed at
3:45 p.m. with 92 officers and 1,595 men of the 3/Welsh Regt. and 3/Royal Lancaster Regt. from Pembroke
Dock. No Lts. and 2/Lts. are listed but
the others are: 3/Welsh Regt: Col. A.T.
Perkins, Maj. W. Watts, Capt. & Adj. H.E. Taylor, Capts. W.
Forrest, R.W. Taylor, A.T. Perkins, J.W. Aldridge, R.D. Stevens, H.W.
Masterman, E.A. Pope, W. Elton and F.P.
Latham.
of the 3/ Royal
Lancaster Regt: Lt.-Col. B.N. North,
Majs. W.H. Feilden, and F. Fitzherbert, Capts. R,N, De la Bere, R. Ttappes-Lomax, A.B. Feilden, G.D. Timmis,
F.P. Vane, J. Challoner, F.S. Jackson,
and H.A. Bagot-Chester, and Capt. & Adj.
C.J. Daniel.
The Cheshire also
sailed to-day with 16 officers and 356 men and will call at Queenstown to pick
up 28 officers and 750 men of the S.W.B. and 2 officers and 175 men of the
Connaught Rangers. The officers are:
Capts. T.O. Marden, Meyrick, and Owen,
Lts. G. Baillie-Hamilton, McLean, Marshall, Cossart, Nelson, Clarke,
Lance, and Buxton, Civil Surgeons Hodgson and Park, 2/Lts. H.R. Milvain, and Lamb, Lt. & Q.M.
Harding.
The Arundel
Castle arrived at Queenstown yesterday morning and embarked 25 officers and 630
men of the 4/South Staffordshire Regt.
for a total of 33 officers and 1,092 men.
The Norseman will
embark to-day 14 officers, 405 men and 405 men of the 8th Hussars and 114 men
of the 14th Hussars, and 336 horses.
The Mount Royal
left the Mersey yesterday for Cape Town with 1,050 Canadian-bred horses.
The following are
scheduled:
The Greek, Southampton , Feb.14, 21 officers , 793 men and 2
guns.
The Gascon, Southampton , Feb. 16, 30 officers and 1,131 men.
The Guelph, Southampton , Feb. 17, 21 officers and 791 men.
The Dunvegan Castle, Southampton , Feb. 17, 11 officers, 1 warrant officer, 134 men
and 6 horses.
The Avondale Castle, Southampton , Feb 22, 27 officers and
1,005 men.
The Mexican, Southampton , Feb. 24, 9 officers, and 339 men.
LT. 14/02/00
(Wednesday)
p5b The St. Andrew arrived at Cape Town Monday
evening. The City of Rome and the Gaul
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. Other
arrivals at Cape Town are: The Micmac with stores and fodder from Boston; the
Purena from Port Elizabeth; the Fultala from Bombay; the Riverton from Buenos
Ayres, the Chiswick from Rosario; the Matin from New Orleans. The Chiswick left for Port Elizabeth and the
Siberian left for England on the 11th.
The Bavarian left for England on the 10th. The Wooloomooloo arrived at Durban Monday.
p6b The Norseman
left Queenstown for Cape Town at 9 oclock last night with 17 officers, 1,004
men and 380 horses.
The Cheshire
arrived at Queenstown last night and will embark 28 officers and 750 men of the
S.W.B., and 175 men of the 1/Connaught Rangers.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
14/02/00
p1 The Suffolk
Regt. has left Port Elizabeth Thursday night
by rail for Modder River. Named were: Maj. Cubitt, Capts. Mackenzie,
Kemble, Brett, Lloyd, Murray, Lts. Thompson and Qm Hon. A. Smith .
LT. 15/02/00
(Thursday)
p4b & c
Dateline Southampton , Feb.
14. The Greek sailed from the
Tingue to-day wit 7 Vol. Service Cos.,
each , except the first which has 115 men, consisting of 3 officers and 113
men. The officers sailing were: Maj, R.F.
Macdonald ,D.S.O., in command. K.O.S.B.
Capt. A. Hadden, & Lts.
Craig-Brown, and H.
Stoddart. Devons, Capt. W.H. Speke, Lts. F.K. Windeatt, W.B. Dart, and Lancaster. Beadfordshire, Capt. A.L. Green, Lts. A. Braithwaite and
A. Trethewy. S.W.B., Capt. L.J.
Phillips, Lts., H.G. Kemmis and Kirkby.
Welsh , Capt. R.W.P. Evans,
Lts. Bramston Williams and F.H.
Gaskell. Northamptonshires, Capt. W.
Hughes, Lts., A.T. Page, and W.B.S. Hickson. Manchesters, Capt. B.C.P.
Heywood, Lts., E.H. Howe and H.C. Darlington and Civil Surgeon W.L. Walker.
The Simla
departed at 7:30 p.m. carrying 3 officers and 345 men of the 2/Derbyshire Regt.
and R.G.A. for Malta, 25 officers and 844 men of the 1st & 3rd Seaforth
Highlanders for Egypt, and 5 officers and 396 men of the 1/Cameron
Highlanders. The following officers
were in the Simla for South Africa : Lts.
Craig-Brown and S. Hay, 2nd
Lts., Lord James Murray, and C.H. Antrobus and Civil Surgeon A. Spong, and 2nd Lt. H.A. Grant, 1/Leicestershire Regt.
The Servia sails
with the 5/Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 24 officers and 518 men , 2 officers and 128
men of the 2/Seaforth Highlanders, 9 officers and 131 men of the 7th Gen. Hospital, No. 3 Remount Co. 2 civil
surgeons and 13 other officers. She will
stop at Queenstown and embark 30 officers and 800 men of the 3/East Lancashire
Regt.
The following
officers are listed: 5th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Col. H.C. Gernon, commanding, Majors, H.T. Finlay, and Sir F.W. Shaw,
Captains, R.A. Hartley, P. La Touche,
A.D. Kirkpatrick, S.A. Jones, A.T. MacDermott, W.C. Roper-Caldbeck, F.H.J.
Finlay, Lieutenant A.E.C. Hamilton, @nd Lts.
G.B.C. Irvine, W.A.C. Kinsman, P.G. OBrien-Butler, D.C.P. Camron,
F.W.J. OCarrol, A.H. Wodehouse, J.L. Weston and F.H. Kunhardt. 2/Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 2/Lt. R.H. Robinson, Capts. & Adjs. R.S. Gage & R. Baker, Attached civil surgeons B.A. Nichol and G.R.
Thompson. 1/Seaforth Highlanders,
Capt. M.D. Murray, 2nd Lt. J.G.E. Craik, Lt. R.P. Doig. No. 7 General Hospital, Civil Surgeons H. Goodman & J.W. Summerhayes. I.Y.
Col. H.W. Fielden, Vet. Lt.
Crole. 4/Leinster Regt.,
Lt.-Col. Lord Castletown, 1/Royal
Highlanders, Lt. A.H. Marindin. Indian Staff Corps., Capt. C.W.G. Richardson. 2/Connaught Rangers, Capt.
A.W. Abererombie. 1/Life
Guards, Lt. the Hon. A.F. Stanley. Reserve of Officers, Lt.
R.P. Cobbold. Chaplains, The
Rev. H.K. Southwell and Rev. A.L. Helps.
No. 3 Remounts, Capt. Gubbins & Lts. Fairfax and Lucy.
Dateline,
Tilbury, Feb. 14. The Victorian (8,825 tons) embarked the
17th Lancers to-day but the ship will not sail until morning. The Lancers number 22 officers and 497 men
along with 468 horses. In addition she
embarked 2 officers and 197 men of the 2/Lancashire Fusiliers.
The Cheshire left
Queenstown yesterday afternoon with 46
officers and 1,221 men.
LT. 16/02/00
(Friday)
p5c The Ulstermore
arrived at Cape Town on Wednesday and the Aurania and the Nile sailed from Cape
Town for Southampton .
p10c Dateline
Southampton , Feb. 15. The Pinemore sailed with a detachment of
17th Lancers and the following: Capt.
H.M. Shaw Stewart, and Lt. the
Hon. C.W.H. Cavendish, Civil surgeon
W.S. Lindsay and Lt. N.E. Tilney, RHA.
LT. 17/02/00
(Saturday)
p5b Gazette. CG H.S.R. Elliot, in succession to Lt. F.D. Farquhar, seconded.
p7e The Aristo
arrived at Cape Town, Feb. 15. The Palamcotta, from Rangoon, and the City
of Venice, from London, have arrived at Cape Town . The Nomadic arrived at Durban from Table Bay, Feb. 14 and the Kinfauns Castle arrived at Natal,
Feb. 15. The Norman, left Madeira, Feb.15. The Kumara has left Teneriffe for the Cape. The Armenian has arrived at St. Vincent and the Kent has arrived at Las
Palmas .
p9b & c
Dateline Southampton , Feb.
16. The Gascon will leave here
this morning with 30 officers and 1,131 men.
The officers, Capt. C.V. Gunning
and Lt. Fairfax-Lacy of No. 3 Remount Co. sailed in the Servia on Wednesday. The Servia has reached Queenstown and embarked 27 officers and
675 men of the 3/East Lancashire Regt.
making a total of 1,560 officers and men. She sailed at 4 p.m.
The Cymric will
dock at Liverpool instead of London.
LT. 19/02/00
(Monday)
p7f Dateline
Wellington, Feb.18. The third New
Zealand contingent for South Africa sailed yesterday.
The American
arrived at Cape Town Saturday. The
Laurentian, from Halifax, has arrived at Cape Town . The Pindari has arrived at Natal. The Doune Castle left Madeira Saturday. The Malta has arrived at Las Palmas and the Kent has left. The Armenian left St. Vincent for the Cape. The Afric passed Teneriffe on Saturday.
p12c, d & e
Dateline Southampton , Feb. 17.
The Gascon sailed from here at 10:30 this morning. She embarked 10 Volunteer service
companies. Each consisted of 3 officers
and 113 men except the Royal Scots
(112), Cheshire Regt. (114), and Royal
Highlanders (114). Major C. Norie was in command and Mr. J.
Bruce, civil surgeon, sailed in the ship. The officers embarked were: Royal Scots - Capt. R.W. Campbell and Lts. M.W. Henderson and R.G.W. Adams.
East Kent Regt. - Capt G.
Goaling, and Lts. R.J.A.T.
Slaughter and H. Norfolk.
Liverpool Regt. - Capt.
T.W. Williams, and Lts. J. Goffey and J.H. Grindley.
Royal Scots Fusiliers - Captain. C.G. Diekie, Lts. C.D.
Porteous and J. MacL. Frew.
Cheshire Regt. - Capt.
S. Thornley, & Lts. J.
Bates & J.S. Craig.
Scottish Rifles - Capt.
J.W. Young & Lts. A.A.
Kennedy & Clarke.
Royal Highlanders - Capt.
Cook & Lts. Hunter &
McArthur.
Wiltshire Regt. - Maj.
Viscount Folkestone & Lts.
Kendle & W.C. Luce.
H.L.I. - Capt. D.S.
Morton & Lts. J.R. Leisk &
J. Shearer, Jr.
A & S Highlanders - Maj. Millar, & Lts.
Valentine & Smith.
The Guelph sailed
to-day with some Vol. Service Cos. of 3 officers and 113 men each. They are:
Lincolnshire Regt.
Capt. H.E. Newsum, &
Lts. R. Lee & H. Stephenson.
Leicestershire Regt. - Capt. W.A. Harrison & Lts.
H. N. Rowlatt & C.H. Jones.
Yorkshire Regt. - Capt.
Bell & Lts. R.W.T. Ewart
& F.C. Houseman.
Gloucestershire Regt. - Capt. C.E.F. Mouat-Biggs & Lts.
Lawson & J.H. Bryan.
West Riding Regt. - Capt.
E. Dewhurst & Lts. H.S. Atkinson & H. Wilson.
York & Lancaster Regt. - Capt. E.A.Marples, & Lts.
H.B. Chalmer & C.V.B. Boyle.
Gordon Highlanders - Capt.
Buchanan & Lts. Mackinnon
& Forbes.
The Dunvegan
Castle also sailed with many named people on board - to long to list.
Dateline Albert Docks, Feb. 17.
The Sicilian( 6284 tons) sailed
from here today with 17 officers, 490 men and 287 horses. They were B Sqdn. 8th Hussars, a group of M.I., a machine gun section, No. 20 Field Hospital, RAMC and 2 troopers from
I.Y.
The transport
Pinemore arrived at Queenstown Saturday night.
She lost one blade of her propeller in storm conditions in the Channel
and will have to be delayed for repairs.
LT. 20/02/00
(Tuesday)
p3c The Southern
Cross arrived at Cape Town on the 17th from Sydney. The Alsatia, for Cape Town , left St. Vincent Feb. 17 and the
Majestic arrived at St. Vincent on the
18th. The Malta and the Arundel Castle
left Las Palmas on the 18th. The
Pavonia arrived at Malta yesterday.
Dateline Sydney,
Feb. 19. The War Office has requested the despatch of 126,000 lb. of corned beef and 144,000 lb of preserved
mutton by the Atlantian. The balance of
the cargo will be oats.
p8b Dateline ,
Tilbury, Feb. 19. The Austral (nearly 6,000 tons) embarked
the 4/West Yorkshire Regt., 20 officers and 479 men under Lt.-Col. A.J. Price and the 4/Middlesex Regt., 23
officers and 511 men under Lt.-Col. G.C.
Helme. Other senior officers were:
Majs. A.C. Bennett, Sir W. Mahon of the Yorkshires and G. Rushbrook and H.W. Benchley of the
Middlesex. In addition the following
also embarked: Maj. W. Bertram, Capts. E.F. Drake Brockman, RMLI, J.B. Wood, RGA, Taggart, 15th Hussars,
Lt. Taylor, ISC, and Sub.-Lt. E.M. Bennett, RN., 4 officers of the 3/West
Surrey, 4 of the Scottish Rifles, and the usual RAMC detachment and 2 Scripture
Readers. Total of 60 officers and 998
men.
LT. 21/02/00
(Wednesday)
p5c The
Winifredian arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Pembroke Castle arrived at Cape Town on the 19th. The Narrung has arrived at Table Bay. The Cheshire has passed Las Palmas .
p10c Dateline
Southampton Feb. 20. The Cephalonia embarked the 3/Royal West
Surrey Regt., 19 officers, 524 men, and 5 horses, and the 4/Scottish Rifles, 25
officers, 575 men and 5 horses, drafts of the 2/Royal West Surrey Regt., 100
men and of the 2/Scottish Rifles, 1 officer and 160 men, No. 8 General Hospital, 7 officers and 94
men. The following officers were
embarked:
4/Scottish
Rifles, Col. A.H. Courtenay,
Lt.-Col. M.G. Johnstone, Maj. H.
Chavasse, Captains A.R.C. Littledale, D. Blaikie Macdonald, H.T. Townshend, H.H. Smith, A.O.L. Kindersley,
and F.K. Gardner, Lt. L.M. Castle, 2nd
Lts. M.H.D. Thompson-Carmichael,
R.R.W.B. Murphy, G.F. Phillips, A.F. Lumsden, H. Boyd-Rochfort, R.I. Forbes, F.H. Bridgman, R.C.M. Maxwell-Heron
and D.H. Thorborn, Capt. & Adj.
A.M.S. Henning and Civil surgeon J.
Inversity.
2/Scottish
Rifles, Capt. M.L. Pears
3/Royal West
Surrey, Lt.-Col. F.H. Fairtlough,
Majs. W.A.D. Shelton and F.G. Parsons,
Capts. A.G. Shaw, H.S. Walker, H.F.
Wilkinson, W.H. de B. Griffith,
Crofton, Grant, Rhodes, and Blake, Lts.
E.G. Williams, G.D.I. Armstrong, F.B. Storey, and P.R.C. Commings ,
2/Lt. H.N.A. Hunter, Capt. &
Adj. R.B. Swinton, Capt. & Q.M.
J.S. Dyke, and Civil surgeon Tregg.
2/Royal West
Surrey, Capt. R. Alexander (Rifle Brigade, attached)
No. 8 Gen.
Hosp., Lt.-Col. R.T. Beamish,
M.D., Majs. A Wright and J.S. Adye,
Surgeon Capts. H.E. Mortis, and J.E.
OConnor, Civil surgeons A.F.B. Kirkman and W.A. Stott.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
21/02/00
p2 Dateline
Gaberones, Jan. 31. Artillery duel at
Crocodile Pools. Brit. guns near Basuto Kopje and range at 3,300 yds.
Dateline Gaberones, Feb. 2. Maj. Bard (Bird) made a demonstration with 150 men on Boer
fortress. Also present Lt.s. Sharl and Bunt, climbed the ridge at eastern
end. Brit. 12 pounder on Basuto Kopje.
Boers firing with a 12 pounder and a Maxim-Nordenfelt 1 pounder. (pom-pom)
Dateline
Gaberones, Feb. 4. Lt. Montmorency
dropped two shells into the Boer fort with deadly effect. (our fragments)
p4 Dateline
Ramoutsa, Feb. 7. Boer dispatch mentions fortress being shelled and "the
shells (ordinary shrapnel) falling in and bursting over the fort. ( You have not reported finding shrapnel
within the fore - only shell fragments from fragmentation shells. I believe the
"ordinarry shrapnel as being mis-named.)
p16 A list here of
Mafeking casualties up to Dec. 28, 99
LT. 22/02/00
(Thursday)
p5e Dateline
Halifax, Feb.21. The third
division of the second Canadian Contingent sailed for South Africa to-day by the
transport Milwaukie.
Dateline
Melbourne, Feb. 21 The Australasian has sailed for South
Africa with 40 men of the NSW Lancers and 6 Adelaide nurses.
The Canning and
the British Princess arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The Umbria with 10 officers,
215 men, military invalids has sailed for Southampton . The Waiwera arrived at Durban on the
20th. The Mount Royal arrived at
St. Vincent . The Narrung arrive at St.
Vincent on Tuesday and left the same day. The Greek left Teneriffe yesterday for the Cape.
Dateline
Alexandria, Feb 21. The Dunera
sailed for Southampton .
LT. 23/02/00
(Friday)
p5c Dateline
Abbazia, Feb. 22. The City of Lebanon leaves the port of
Fiume tomorrow with 600 horses for South Africa . The Cavour arrived at Cape Town on Wednesday evening. The Dunvegan Castle arrived at Madeira
yesterday morning and left later for the Cape.
LT. 24/02/00
(Saturday)
p7f The Goth
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Avoca with invalids from South Africa left St.
Vincent on Feb. 22. The Maori King has arrived at Table
Bay. The Nomadic left port Elizabeth
yesterday. The Victorian has arrived at
St. Vincent .
p9b, c, & d.
Dateline Southampton Feb.
23. The Sumatra sailed at 4
oclock this afternoon with 31 officers and 784 men of the 3/Munster Fusiliers
(24 officers and 409 men), 2/Royal Lancashire (2 officers and 220 men) and the
2/Middlesex Regt. (3 officers and 150
men.) The officers are as follows:
3/Munster
Fusiliers, Lt.-Col. F.W.Bell; Majors
G. Lucas and M.W. ODonovan; Captains
A.L. Coppinger, B.M. Roberts, H.G. Richardson, A.J. Des Barres, J.W. Stopford,
B.V. Domvile, R.W. Oldnall; Lieut. A.W.
Abbott; 2nd. Lts. P.C. Shaw, A.W. Brock, H.S. Maydwell, A.C.
Ferguson, J. Bleazby, G.O.B. Harley,
W.T. Brown, A.B. Incledon Webber, S.D. Nash, S.H. Dix; Capt. & Adj. T.
Longridge; Lt. & Q.M. W.H. Frosdick; Medical officer W. Shanks.
2/Royal
Lancashire Regt., Lt. T.D.L.
Whittington; 2nd Lt. W.C. Hibbert.
2/Middlesex Regt,
Lt. C.S.D. Large; 2nd Lts. D.O.C. Newton & H.G. Bengough.
R.F.A.,
Capt. H.L. Powell
Civil Surgeon,
A.W. May.
Dateline
Southampton , Feb. 23. The Avondale Castle sailed shortly after 2
oclock to-day for the Cape with 1020 men in all. These were volunteer service companies, each with 3 officers and
113 men. The officers and regiments
were:
Derbyshire Regt.,
Capt. Turner Lee and Lts. Kingdom, R.K. Ellis, and F.A.C. Wright.
Yorkshire L. I., Capt.
T.W. Simpson and Lts. F. Head and R.H. Ellis.
Liverpool Regt.,
Capt. J.J. Thomas, and Lt. W.H. Kenyon and another.
South Lancashire
Regt., Capt. F.M. Appleton and
Lts. H.H. Lewis and E. Robson.
Northumberland
Fusiliers, 1st V.B., Capt. R.C. Hedley
and Lts. G.F. Fisher and W.J.
Rickers-Stephenson; 2nd V.B. & 3rd V.B., Capt. R.H. Atkinson and Lts.
F. Manford and H. Beale.
Durham L. I., Capt.
J. Turnbull, and Lts. H.
Bowes and J.R. Ritson.
West Yorkshire
Regt., Capt. C.E. Wood, and Lts. H.D. Bousfield, A.W. Lupton and C.S.I.
Stableford.
Yesterday
afternoon at Birkenhead the Orotava embarked
100 men of the Derbyshire Regt, and the following officers: Lieuts. R.F.J. Taylor, and B. J.
Horley, Derbyshire Regt., H. E. Raymond and M.R. Liddon, Yorkshire Regt.,
H.E. Whaley, A&S Highlanders, 144 men of the No. 5 Gen. Hospital, RAMC, 41
men of the No. 24 Field Hospital. The Orotava will call at Queenstown to embark the 3/Norfolk
Regt. and the 4/Cheshire Regt.
The Pinemore left
the Mersey yesterday for Cape Town .
She embarked a detachment of 17th Lancers and horses, M Battery RHA,
Ammunition Column 4th Cav, Brigade, draft for the Inniskilling Dragoons,
det. No. 8 Gen. Hospital and
remounts (394 officers and men).
Between Oct. 20, 1899 and Jan. 31, 1900 there have been 122 journeys of transports between
England and Cape Town .
LT. 26/02/00
(Monday)
p6a The Manhattan,
the Englishman and the Canada arrived at Cape Town on Saturday. The Lake Erie arrived at Cape Town
yesterday. The Surrey, from Sydney,
arrived at Table Bay on Friday. The
Columbia arrived at Port Elizabeth on Saturday. The Guelph arrived and left Teneriffe on Feb. 24.
The Gascon left Teneriffe Saturday morning. The Servia arrived at St.
Vincent yesterday. The Garth
Castle left Durban on the 22nd with wounded for England.
p10c & d
Dateline Southampton Feb.
25. There volunteer companies
of 3 officers and 113 men each embarked in the Mexican (4,661 tons) yesterday
for the Cape. Their officere were:
Loyal North
Lancashire Regt., Capt. B. Musgrave and Lts. G. Hesketh and F.W.
Poley.
Gordon
Highlanders, Capt. A.W. Buckingham, and
Lts. W.A. Duguid and A.M. Robertson.
Seaforth
Highlanders, Capt. C.E. Johnston,
Lt. R.G. Campbell, and 2nd Lt. J.O. Black.
There also sailed
in the Mexican: Maj. F.H.B. Foster,
Col. Maxwell, DSO, Capts. Robinson, Burnett and McMeekan of the RGA
and Civil Surgeon R. Whittington.
Also on the
Mexican was a contingent of Lord Lochs contingent. The men traveled as second-class passengers and the officers
traveled first-class. Some of these
were: Earl of Essex, Viscount Dungarvan, Sir Owen Scourfield, Lt.-Col. Gregory, Capt. Hodson, and others including Nursing Sister Miss L.W. Tulloh and
a body of nursing sisters, and Capt.
Tozer.
The Goorkha
sailed at noon with 478 men and 19 officers some of whom were: Majors Duberly,
Brown, Etheridge and Harris, Captains Gilroy, Whiteley and Richmond Parry, and
Lts. Corbett, Wahab, Byrne, Vignoles,
Wyndham, Scott, St Maur, Clarke, and Richardson.
The Princess of
Wales arrived and docked with 174 invalids.
The Orotava
arrived at Queenstown Saturday and embarked 23 officers and 516 men of the
3/Norfolk Regt., and 26 officers and 627 men of the 4/Cheshire Regt.,
LT. 27/02/00
(Tuesday)
p5e The Umkuzi
from Port Natal and the Pomeranian from Halifax arrived at Cape Town feb,
26. The Pavonia left Gibralter for Cape
Town Feb. 24. The Simla left Malta Feb.
25 for sa. The Sicilian left Las
Palmas yesterday for Cape Town .
LT. 28/02/00
(Wednesday)
p5a A list of Boer
officers captured at Paardeberg.
p5f The German and
the Monteagle arrived at Cape Town on Feb.
26. The Dictator and the
Montfort arrived at Cape Town Feb. 27.
p7a The Goorkha
left Queenstown yesterday with a total of 50 officers and 1,580 men.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
28/02/00 Nothing Noted
LT. 01/03/00
(Thursday)
p5b & c The
Austral and the Siberian arrived at
St. Vincent yesterday
p5d Dateline
Sydney, Feb 28. The Bushmens
contingent sailed to-day in the Atlantian and the Maplemore. The total was 31 officers, 496 men and 570
horses.
p7b & c.
Dateline Southampton , Feb.28.
The Ottoman sailed from Southampton at 12:25 p.m. today with 420
remounts and the following: 2 officers, 65 men and 3 horses of the 12th
Lancers, 3 men of No. 5 Gen. Hosp., 3 officers, 3 men and 3 horses
classed as details, Maj.
Sadleir-Jackson, Remount officer, 2nd Lts. G.B. Ollivant and Sir E.B. Lacon, 12the Lancers, and Lt. Douglas RAMC.
The Assaye also
sailed today with 81 officers and 2,002 men listed as follows:
Gordon
Highlanders, Bt. Lt.-Col. H.H. Burney, 2nd Lts. J.L.G. Burnett, G.N. McLean, J.G. Hay,
F.R.F. Sworder and 120 men.
3/Yorkshire
Regt. Col. J. Hoole, Hon. Lt.-Cols.
J.W. Lodge and W.E.C. Ellis,Capt. & Adj. C.A.C. King, Capt. & QM.
G. Croft, Captains Hon. G.A. Lascelles, G.W.L.
Hoole-Lowsley-Williams, Baron de Teissier, and R.B.N. Gunter, Lieutenants and
2nd Lts., H. de M. Leathes, E.L. Sanderson, M.E. Clark, E.G.C.
Bagshawe, W.M. Saurtin, B.C.D. Nash, N.
Monckton, R.J.W. Arbuthnot, G.C. Denton, G.L. Dorman, H.G. Chapman, and
E.W. Leather and 679 men and 4 horses.
No. 2 Remount Depot, Major Wood, Capt. J.P.H.M. Alone, Lts. W.D.P. Watson, and Yates, Lt. & QM. Barry and 273 men and 1 horse.
Princess
Christians Hospital, Maj. Mathias, 6
civil surgeons and 32 men.
6/Royal
Fusiliers, Col. H.N.B. Good, Capt. R.H.R. Helpman, and Lt. V.R. Bland-Hunt.
Reserve of
Officers, Capts. Bald, E.M. Eyre, W.H.
Vicars, W. Fitzpatric, and G.B.
Wishart, Lts. J.F.J. Corballis, and
C.D.D. Shute.
1/Royal Scots,
Major W. Douglas, and 101 men with 1
horse.
3/Duke of
Cornwalls L.I., 2nd Lt. H.N.B. Harrison.
5/Connaught
Rangers, Capt. H.W. Biddulph and Lts.,
D.L. Thornton and E. Keogh-Cullen.
York &
Lancaster Regt., Capt. R. B.
Learoyd, Lt. Gardner and 125
men.
Yorkshire Regt.,
Capt. H. G. Holmes.
4/Liverpool
Regt., Capt. J. B. Jobling.
Royal Irish
Fusiliers, 2nd Lts., C.D. Macklem and R.F. Medliecoff, and 140 men.
2/Royal Berkshire
Regt., 2nd Lt. A. Chamberlayne.
2/Royal Scots
Fusiliers, 2nd Lt. E.A. Beck
1/A & S
Highlanders, 2nd Lt. K.M. Laird.
3/Wiltshire
Regt., Lt. E.H. Nicholson
4/H.L.I.,
Capt. A.W. Jones.
Loyal North
Lancashire Regt., Lt. H.A. Robinson.
3/Suffolk Regt.,
Lt. R.W.B. Onslow.
Army Pay Dept.,
Majs. J.M. Sherrard, H.J. Thwaytes, and
A.H. Lindop, Capts. H.D. Harvest, F.H.
Moline and R.G. Cooper-King.
R.E., Capt. T.
Fraser.
1/Royal Scots
Fusiliers, Lt. W.L.D. Baillie.
2/Cameronians,
Lt. S.
Lawrence.
1/Border Regt.,
Lt. P.F.B. Hawes.
1/South
Lancashire Regt., Lt. A Northern.
Shropshire L.I., 2nd
Lt. C.A. Howard.
3/Yorkshire
Regt., Civil Surgeon Scott.
1/Derbyshire
Regt., Maj. C.N. Watts.
Base Depot Staff,
8 officers and 11 men,
Devonshire Regt.,
190 men.
1/Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers, 160 men.
Durham L.I. 150
men.
A.O.C., 20 men.
Dateline
Liverpool, Feb. 28, The Cymric (12,646 tons, 604 ft. length, 64 ft. beam, 11,097 H.P. average 14 knots) embarked 9 companies of I.Y. with the staffs of the 1st & 11
Battalions and other details. The
companies were: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 33,
34, 35, 36 and 20. In addition to 2
machine-gun sections, 23 civil surgeons, 16 other officers, various medical and
veterinary details - in all 94 officers, 1,106 men and 450 horses. Officers listed, but not all, are:
Staff & Wiltshire
Cos., Lt.-Col. Chaloner, Capt. &
Adj. Custance, Lt. E.T. Shorland, Capt. Graves, Lts. Sir T. Fowler, C.S.
Awdry, Henderson, and Smith-Bingham, Vet.-Lt.
F.A. Huband, Capt. Stanley
Clarke, Lts. Lord A. Thynne, C.M. Thornton, C. Speke, and L.St. John Brodrick, Q.M. Sir J.
Dickson-Poynder.
Maxim-gun Sect.,
Lt. S.
Paget and 2nd Lt. G. Paget
Gloucester Co.,
Capt. E.T. Hill, Lts., A. Graham Clarke, W. Phayne, C.G.M. Adam, and Hon.
R. Robertson.
Glamorgan Co.,
Capt. W.H. Wyndham-Quin, M.P.,
Lts. J.H. Ensor, J.H. Pritchard Rayner,
and J.W.R. Marsh.
Staff , 11the
Regt., Lt.- Col. W. Kenyon-Mitford, Maj. K.R. Balfour, Capts. F.J. Dalgety, and C.B. Howse, Vet.-Lt. W.B. Wallis, Lt. & QM R. Brooke and Lt. Peacocke.
Middlesex
Co. Capt. Firman, Lts. Crealock,
Guthrie, Lewin and Rogers.
West Kent,
Capts. Hon. E.J. Mills, and F.B. Mildmay, Lts. R.B. Pott and E.P. Gundry.
Fife Co. Capt.
W.B. Chapell Hodge, Lts. J. Gilmour, J.
Simpson, Robert W. Purvis, and W
Burton Stewart.
Other officers of
the I.Y., Capt. C.H. Simpson, Lts. J.R. Cook Hurle, G.R. Buxton, J. Craig, Kindersley, Eyton, Crawford Donnell
and Lord Leitrim.
Other officers,
Capts. A,M, Gamble, and D.S. Brown,
Lts. F.E. Daniell, A.C.H. Kennard, H.W.
Reeves, 2nd Lts. H. Goodman, and E.F.F. Traill.
At the Royal
Albert Docks the Oriental left yesterday for Queenstown after embarking the
following:
R.E. Capt. Wright, Lts. Webber, Briggs, Cotton, Sherrard and 109 men.
3/Duke of Cornwalls L.I., Lt. Pike.
4/Suffolk Regt.,
Lts. Black and Ashby.
Border Regt.,
Capts. Stourton , Cosgreave and 130
men.
Special Service,
Col. Garstin, Capts. Aubin, and Glynn, Lts. Swain, Dick-Cunyngham and 6 men.
I.Y. Maj. Moore.
RAMC, Lt. Douglas.
Reserve of
Officers, Lt. Aron.
3/Royal Lancaster
Regt., Lt. & QM Batchelor
ASC, Capt. Brooke.
Langmans
Hospital, Drs., Conan Doyle, Langman, OCallaghan, Gibbs, Scharlieb, Howell,
Maj. Drury, Dressers Hackney, Turle,
Bolton, Blasson, Mayes and Civil Surgeon Petchell.
Royal
Warwickshire Regt., 100 men.
Essex Regt. 100 men.
LT. 02/03/00
(Friday)
p5f The Majestic
and the Norman arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Avondale Castle arrived at Las Palmas on Wednesday. The Atlantian and the Maplemore sailed from
Sydney yesterday.
LT. 03/03/00
(Saturday)
p8a The Armenian
arrived at Cape Town Thursday. The
Kumara arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Colombian arrived at Port Natal Feb. 28. The Carthaginian and
the Pinemore have arrived at Las Palmas .
The Cephalonia arrived at St.
Vincent yesterday and the Pavonia has also arrived at St. Vincent.
p9b The Oriental
arrived at Queenstown yesterday and embarked the 3/Royal Scots (502 ) making a
total of 58 officers and 1,049 men. She
sailed at 4 p.m. The officers of the Royal Scots who embarked are:
Lt.-Col. E.J. Grant, Majs. R.
Dundas, (Hon)Lord Tewkesbury, and Lord Henry Scott, Capts., Viscount
Brackley, D.H. Forbes, C.P.R. Wood, Viscount Newport, T.C.E. Goff, Capt. & Q.M. W.F. Horniblow (Hon)Capt
& Adj. G.H. Davidson, Lts. E.L. Strutt, A.M.T. Fletcher, E.F. Penn,
A. Douglas-Pennant, and H.F.
Collinridge, 2nd Lts. R.J.
Gibson-Craig, Sir S.H. Childs, the Hon.
R Brand and E.J,F. Johnson.
p16a Dateline
Albert Docks, March 1. Three
Cos. I.Y. embarked here in the
Manchester Merchant and sailed this morning for South Africa . The Cos.
were # 26, # 27, # 48, and 7th Bn. Staff and a machine gun section. Total of 19 officers, 386 men and 352
horses. The officers on board were:
7th Bn. Staff, Lt.-Col. Helyar, Maj. Brown and
Capts. Hardy, P.M. Fowke, & Walford
Rowe.
Dorsets,
Capts. Sir E. Lees, and Cartwright, Lts., the Hon. I. Guest, & Batley.
Devons,
Capt. Bolitho, Lts., St. Hill, De Las Casas and de V. Carey.
West Somersets,
Capt. Sherston, Lts., Thynne, Gibbs,
and Symons.
Machine Gun
Section, Lt.-Col. Mansel.
LT. 05/03/00
(Monday)
p6a The Canada
has arrived at East London. The Urmston
Grange left Port Elizabeth on March 1 for Cape Town .The Oratava arrived at
St. Vincent . The Goorka left Teneriffe yesterday.
Dateline Cape
Town March 2. The City of Rome has
left for England with 230 wounded.
Dateline St. Vincent , March 3. The Umbria, with invalids for Southampton arrived here to-day.
p10b & c.
Dateline Albert Docks, March 4.
Five cos. I.Y. sailed in the Cornwall, #42, #44, #63,
#46, and #54 in addition to a machine gun section. Total of 21 officers, 633 men and 190 horses. The following are officers names:
#42, Capt. Gilliatt, Lts. Smith, Boranquet, Sir G.
Arthur & G. Lubbock.
#44, Capt.
G.B. Richards, Lts., Wilson Erle, Buxton, & Guinness.
#63, Capt. A.V. Hume, Lts., Perry, Wadmore, &
Swinburne.
#46, Capt. R.A. Maude, Lts., Sir J. Power, Ralledge, H. F.
Montgomery.
#54, Capt. J.F. Humby, Lts. J.R. Mitchell, F.J. Montgomery.
The Nineveh
sailed with a number of Volunteer Cos.
Toatal of 18 officers and 542 men. The officers were:
Duke of
Cornwalls L.I., Capt. E.A. Jackson,
Lts. Cowland and G.E.S. Smith
Border Regt.,
Capt. J. Thompson, Lts. J.F.
Haswell, & E.W. Wakefield.
North Stafford,
Capt. G.W. Laybourn, Lts. H.J. Johnson & E.F. Hodson.
Shropshire L.I.,
Capt. W.H. Frow, Lts. B.
Head & J.F. Cutler.
Essex, Capt. J.C. Lawris, Lts. H.E. Crocker & W.
Bowie.
and Lt.-Col. Tobinds, in command.
Dateline
Southampton , March 3. The Tantallon
Castle sailed today with 498 troops and a Colt gun. She also carried 26 nurses.
Dateline Albert
Docks, March 4. The Avoca arrived
yesterday with 12 officers and 325 men as sick and wounded from South Africa
. The officers were: Capt. Elton, RFA, Majs. Haygate, Gordon, Capts.
Goodwyn, Radcliffe, Leverson, Jervis, Lts. Holford, Danks, Marsh and Malden.
The Britannic
arrived at Southampton from South Africa on Saturday with 3 officers and 52
men, all invalids.
LT. 06/03/00
(Tuesday)
p5c Dateline
Hobart, March 5. The Tasmanian
contingent embarked on the Atlantian to-day.
The Kent, Afric
and the Doune Castle arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The Anglo-Australian, the
Araucania, the Induna and the Iona have arrived at Table Bay. The Colombian arrived at Durban on March 3
and the Canada at Port Natal.
p11a The Nile
arrived at Southampton yesterday with invalids, 2 officers and 40 men . The Aurania also arrived at Southampton
yesterday with about 170 invalids.
LT. 07/03/00
(Wednesday)
p5d Dateline Cape
Town , March 5. Prisoners continue to
arrive daily, and are placed on board the Orient and the City of Cambridge in
Table Bay. The Mongolian and the
Manila, which are already full, have gone to Simons Bay.
The Malta arrived
at Cape Town Monday. The Arundel Castle
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Dictator, from Table Bay, arrived at East London March 5. The Cymric is reported at Las Palmas .
Dateline Buenos
Ayres, March 5. The Beacon Grange
sailed yesterday with 702 horses for Cape Town .
Cape Times Weekly Edition
07/03/00
p2 I thought this
might be of interest: Dateline
Gaberones, Feb. 16.
" Before
sunrise the Boers began shelling our bombproof near Basuto Kopje. They also
placed a few shells on a hill further west, where the outposts were stationed
without damage.
During the night
Col. Plumer sent a squad to reconnoitre the enemys west flank. At 6.30 the
patrol was within 800 yards of Spitzkop standing isolated on the plain two
miles north-west of the Boer Laager. The enemy were found in strength on and
around Spitzkop. The British retired under a hot fire. An officer and two
troopers were wounded.
LT. 08/03/00
(Thursday)
p5d & e The
Cheshire and the Narrung arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The Guelph arrived at St. Helena yesterday morning and left in the
evening. The Assaye arrived at St. Vincent yesterday. The Tantallon Castle arrived at Madeira yesterday and has departed
for Cape Town . The Manchester Merchant
ahs arrived at Las Palmas .
p7e & f
Dateline Albert Docks, March 7.
The Mahratta sailed this afternoon with the following Cos. of I.Y.: #25, #53, and #59. The usual RAMC detachment of 1 Civil Surgeon,
Milton, 1 Civil Vet. Surgeon, Lane;
R.E., 9 men and 122 remounts for a total of 16 officers, 359 men and 266
horses. The officers were:
West Somerset,
Capt. Harris and Lts. Myburgh, Stanley, Fitzgerald, and Sevits.
East Kent,
Capt. Marks, Lts. Hall, Few, Summers, and Baker.
2/Oxfordshire,
Lts Hext, St. John, Maguiac, Thesiger.
The Kildonan
Castle sailed yesterday from Southampton for Queenstown where she will complete
the full number of troops of about 115 officers, and 2,620 men, stores and
ammunition. Those who embarked at Southampton include the following:
4/Somerset L.I.,
Lt.-Col. W. Long, Majs. E.H.
Llewellyn and J.W.H. Marshall-West; Capts.
S.H. Woodhouse, G.B. St.John-Mildmay, R.W. Manley, A. Llewellyn, D.G. Stewart, E.A.B. Warry,
S.E.O. Owen-Swaffield; Lts. J.H.
Christie, W.A.D. Lippert, W.W. Llewellyn, H.G.W. Woodhouse, C. Brand and O.T. Bentley; 2nd Lts. P.M.Whale, R.H. Williams, G.W. Thompson,
C.H. Thomas, P.E. Bradney, and E.J. FitzG.
King; Capt. & Adj. M.A.
Foster; Lt. & Qm. H. Powis; Civil Surgeon A. Mackenzie; and 390 men.
3/Somerset L.I.
2nd Lt. J.C. Reid
3/Leinster Regt.,
Lt.-Col. J.H.G. Smyth; Maj. F.
Luttman-Johnson; Capts. W.E.A.
Barry, E.P. Smith, C.T. Biddulph, R.H.T. Smyth, H.G. Sheppard, and L.P. Arnott;
Lts. G. Harding, R.G.T. Curry, R.R. Smyth, and J.W.White Bell; 2nd
Lts. C.E.R. Smyth, L.F.A. Cochrane, and
G.B. Scott; Capt. & Adj. P.E.S.
Reeves; Lt. & Qm. J.W. Gallehawk;
Civil Surgeon G.H. Bristow; and 500 men.
West Yorkshire
Regt., 1 officer and 120 men.
1/Yorkshire
Regt., Lt. W.B. Walker; 2nd Lts. A.C.D. Pearson, H.V. Bastow, and J.C.
Morgan; and 100 men.
Fife Artillery,
Capt. D. Burges.
Dorset Regt.,
Lts. C.G. Hay and B.G. Peel; and 100
men.
Gordon
Highlanders, Capts. G.R. Macnab and
Murray.
Welsh Regt., 2
officers and 100 men.
3/Suffolk Regt.,
Lts. C.A.R. Stower and W.D.B. Halhed.
3/Manchester
Regt., Capt. W.F. Hobdell.
Royal Dublin
Fusiliers, Capt. Cowper; 2nd Lt. J.C. Lamprey; and 100 men.
R.E., Capt. P.H. du P.
Casgrain; Capt. Burnaby,
Lt. Blakeney, 2nd Lt. Ball and 32 men.
1/Essex Regt.,
Capt. B.A. Warry.
3/Royal
Highlanders, 2nd Lt. F.L. Moubray.
Reserve of
officers, Capt. Mowbray.
R.G.A., Capt. F.G. Roberts.
Army Pay Corps, 3
officers and 9 men.
LT. 09/03/00
(Friday)
p5e The Dunvegan
Castle arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Avondale Castle arrived at Las Palmas Wednesday night.
Dateline Buenos
Ayres, March 8. The Yoruba sailed
today with 600 horses for Cape Town .
The steamers Julia Park, Mary Park, Kildonan, Jonan and Surrey are
loading horses for Cape Town .
p7b Dateline
Albert Docks, March 8. The Sunda
sailed this afternoon with 29 officers, 469 men and 148 horses. The officers were:
1/Middlesex
Regt., Capt. L.J. Oliver.
2/Somerset L.I.,
Capt. A.G. Boyle.
East Yorkshire
Regt., Capt. H.A.N. Forte, Lts. W.E. Campion, A.E. Masson, and J.R. Keys.
4/Derbyshire Regt., Capt. E.
Burden-Bailey.
Thorneycrofts
M.I., Capt. the Hon. Piers St.
Aubyn.
1/Loyal North
Lancashire Regt., Lts. H.A. Robinson,
W.H. Creak, and Smiley.
2/Kings Royal
Rifles, Lt. H.F. Foljambe.
RAMC,
Lt.-Col. R.F. Barrow, Majs. J.C. Jan and A. Hosie, Capt. F. Smith, Lts.
Offord, Smith and Harrington.
Civil Surgeons,
Mayo, Donald, Hunter, Crawford, Turton, Wood, Page, Wrate, and Brownrigg.
Civil Vet. Surgeon, Evershed.
The Kildonan
Castle arrived at Queenstown yesterday to embark 25 officers and 580 men of the
3/KOSB and 23 officers and 470 men of the 4/North Staffordshire Regt.
LT. 10/03/00
(Saturday)
p7d The Greek
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Alsatia arrived at Cape Town , March 8. The Dictator arrived and the Canada and
Catalonia left Durban, Mar. 8. The Oriental arrived at St. Vincent yesterday. The Nineveh arrived at Teneriffe yesterday and departed the same
day. The Ottoman has arrived at
St. Vincent .
Dateline Durban,
March 8. It is reported that the
bubonic plague has appeared on the Kilburn, which arrived at Cape Town from
South America.
p12c The Kildonan
Castle left Queenstown at 3 oclock yesterday afternoon with 2,598 officers and
men for South Africa .
LT. 12/03/00 (Monday)
p5e The Norseman
arrived at Cape Town March 9. The
Victorian arrived at Cape Town on Mar.
10. The Gascon arrived at Cape
Town, Mar 11. The Mount Royal and the
Turkistan have also arrived at Cape Town.
The Induna arrived at East London, March 9.
p7b & c. The
Tintagel Castle sailed from Southampton on Saturday with 38 officers , 1,171
men and 7 horses.
The Moor embarked
a number of officers and 600 men of Malitia Regts. She sailed at 4:30 p.m. from Southampton . Some of the officers were:
Staff of the 8th
Division, Col. G.E. Harley, C.B.;
Lt.-Cols. R. H. Morrison and W.A. May;
Majors J.M. Traill and H. Mann;
Captains FitzR. E. P.
Curzon, E.C.P. E.C.P. Curzon, Raleigh Grey, C.M.G., Thynne, and Fisher;
Lts. Burgoyne, J. Lawrence, and Rashleigh; and Mr. Wormaid.
7the D.G.
Capt. M.F. Gage
R.G.A.,
Capts. G.G. Traherne, H.H. Harvest,
C.E. Hill, and W.F.T. Corrie
Brit. Counsul-Gen. at Delagoa Bay, Capt.
Crowe, R.N.
S.A. Light Horse,
Mr. Bathurst.
Among passengers,
Miss Mary Kingsley, writer.
Officers who
embarked in the Kildonan Castle at Queenstown Friday are:
3/KOSB,
Lt.-Col. J.K.M. Witham; Majs. C.V.E. Laurie and J. Mackie; Capts. Sir. A.D. Grierson, W.C.
Critchley-Salmonson, W.H.A.F. Crichton-Browne, A.D.R. Pott, J.B. Wilkie, J.L.
Greig, and W.L.C. Allan; Lts. H. Keswick, W.
McCall, Sir W. Jardine, and J.T.
Scriven; 2nd Lts. H.S. Gladstone, J.B.
Neilson, F.W. Dudgeon, W.W.M. Brunton, W.F. Graham, and Stormont-Darling; Capt.
& Adj. F.J. Carruthers, Lt. &
Qm. W.E. Webb, and Civil Surgeon F.E.
Taylor.
4/North
Staffordshire Regt, Lt.-Col. R. Mirehouse; Major F.R. Twemlow; Capts. C.
Wedgewood, D.G.O. Saunders-Davies, G.P. Bull, R.N. Fane, F.H. Wedgwood,
C.B. Webb, and C. FitzH. Bill; Lts.
W.E. Blagg, O. Hawkshaw, W.M.
Levett, B.H. Wedgwood, I.R. Limbert, A.M. Stapylton and F.O. Koebel; 2nd
Lts. C. Lyon, P. Lyon, C. Thomas, R.N. Ryder, C. Mosley, C.W. Moore, and E.F.S. Henderson
(attached); Capt. & Adj. E.S.
Pipe-Wolferstan and Civil Surgeon M.F. Ellis.
LT. 13/03/00
(Tuesday)
p5c The Mohawk has
arrived at Durban. The Monarch , with
800 horses, has arrived at Las Palmas .
The Cornwall left Las Palmas , Mar, 10.
Dateline Buenos
Ayres, Mar. 12. The Julia Park sailed yesterday with 784
horses for Cape Town .
p6b & c
Dateline Albert Docks, Mar.
12. The Avoca (fitted out as a
hospital ship) sailed from here this morning with the 10th Gen. Hosp., 4 civil surgeons, and 22 nurses. The staff of the #10 Gen. Hosp.
consists of 8 officers, 1 Sgt.-Maj.
and 118 men. The following are
listed: Lt.-Col. W.W. Blake; Majs. Clements and Freeman; Capts. Steele, McMunn, Watson, Butter; Lt. Walton; Civil Surgeons Barker, Cook, May and Knapp; Nursing Sisters, Misses
Ainsworthy, Blythe, Carey, Church, Green, Humphreys, Jocelyn, Kendall, Lippatt,
McAdams, McCleod, Pedlar, Richards, Shephard, Stuart, Jones, Turner, Warrender, Wilkinson, Wolhman, Makepeace, and Campbell.
The Winkfield
sails from here tomorrow with Northumberland Yeomanry and Yeomanry Hospital.
Dateline
Southampton . The British Prince left
Southampton yesterday with details, 14 officers, 339 men and 345 horses for
South Africa . Listed are:
8th Div. Ammunition Column, Capt. F.C. Poole, and Lt. A.C. Russell with 39 men and 14 horses.
5th Field
Co. R.E., Capts. B.E. Morony, E.P. Brooker and J.S. Purvis;
Lt. W.S. Douglas; 2nd Lts. L.J.N. Neville, P.B. OConnor, and G.F.B.
Goldney, with 209 men and 19 horses.
Capt. R.A. Vansittart and Mr. A.A. Grist civil Vet. Surgeon.
10th Hussars, 2nd
Lt. the Hon. A.K. Maxwell.
LT. 14/03/00
(Wednesday)
p5f The Servia
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Kildonan Castle arrived at Madeira Monday night and departed for Cape Town
yesterday morning.
p7b & c
Dateline Albert Docks, March 13.
The Winkfield (4,000 Tons) sailed to-day with 15 officers, 310 men and
241 horses. The officers are:
#55 Co. I.Y. Capt.
Roden; Lts. Jarvis, Mitchell,
Cunningham, and Cunliffe.
Bearer Co., Field
Hosp. I.Y. , Majs. G.E. Hale and C. Stonham; Capts. H. Openshaw, W.A. Sheen and A.A. Scot Skirving;
Lts. A.H. Evans and Patrick Green.
Base Depot,
Capt. H.W. Calverly
Vet. Surgeon, Lt. J.F. Spartan.
The Montrose
saild with about 600 on board and the Hilarius embarked the following:
Dublin Co. I.Y. Capt.
the Earl of Longford; Lts.
H.C.V. Stuart, Viscount Ennismore, T. R. A. Stannus and J.G.
Blackbourne, and 116 men including the Hon.
Victor Gibson.
Pembrokeshire
Co. I.Y., Col. H.R.L. Howard; Capt. Richardson; Lts. Davies-Evans, F.T. Middleton, and B.H. Jones.
Yorkshire
Co. I.Y. Capt. S.W.K. Cradock; Lts. Watt, C.
Brook, J.W. Brooke, H.A. Lempriere and C.L. Ward-Jackson
Buckinghamshire
Co. I.Y. Col. l. Sandwith; a major, a
captain & adj.; Lts. Marwood
Tucker, A. Gillon and Sir E. Hulse.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
14/03/00
p6 List here of
Boer prisoners taken in the vicinity of Modder River since the relief of
Kimberley and before Cronjes surrender. Here also a numerical list of
prisoners taken at Paardeberg.
p8 Dateline
Plumers Camp, Feb. 26. The Metzimswani
Bridge repaired and trains can go almost to Ramoutsa. Also here this: "Our
men have erected a cairn on the spot where Captain French fell.
LT. 15/03/00
(Thursday)
p5e The Austral
arrived at Cape Town Tuesday evening.
The Guelph arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The Majestic from Cape Town arrived at Port Natal Tuesday. The Colombia, from Durban arrived at Cape
Town yesterday. The Moor arrived at
Madeira at noon yesterday and departed for Cape Town at 4 p.m. The Mahratta left Las Palmas March 13. The Simla arrived at Zanzibar yesterday on
her way to the Cape.
Dateline Colombo,
March 14. The Oceana sighted the
Fazilka 500 off Ceylon with her shaft broken.
Assistance has been sent.
p10b Dateline
Southampton , March 14. The Nile
(nearly 5,000 tons) embarked 64 officers and 1,307 men today. The following officers are listed:
2/East Yorkshire
Regt. Lt.-Col. W.W.Ward, Maj. E.A. Ogle, Capts. C.S. Sotte,
F.C. Maconehy, E.T. Marshall, J.A. Unett, M.J. Sweetman, and W.H. Young; Lt.
& Qm. F.G. Cunningham; Lts. Wilson, H.E.P. Thomas, O.C. Wilkinson, II,
W. Stenhouse, B.W. Bogle, and H.R.S.
Brown; 2nd Lts. E.F. Green, F.A.
Maclean, R.H.S. Wilkinson, C.L. Estridge, and D.G. Wrangham; four other
officers and 850 men.
2/Norfolk
Regt. 2nd Lts. C.W. Lyon and J.R. Clarke, and 100 men.
2/Linconshire
Regt. 2nd Lts. R.E. Dawson, E.N. French, and W.J. Dugan and
100 men.
3/Bedfordshire
Regt. Capts. E.A. Haggard and B.P. Newbolt, Lt. H.M.A. Hales and 100 men.
Also 2nd Lt. L. Paxton, 2nd Bn.
Royal
Monmouthshire Engineers (Militia) Lt. & Qm. R.S. Walker and 25 men.
Royal Anglesey
Engineers (Militia) Lt. J.L.
Hampton-Lewis and 25 men.
Militia gun detachments from Hythe, with 8
men each. 3/East Lancashire Regt. Lt.
F.S. Bowring; 4/South Staffordshire Regt. Lt. L.P. Reeves and 2nd
Lt. L.D. Inglefield; 3/Welsh Regt.
Capt. H.H. Esplin; 6/Lancashire
Fus. Lt. D.G.M. Dundas; 3/South Wales Borderers, Lt. W.R.T. Clement; 3/Cameronians, Lt. W.M. Russell; 6/Middlesex Regt. Lt.
A.H. Harden; 5/Royal Munster Fus.
Lt. E.P. Conway; 5/Royal Dublin
Fus. Lt. L.N. Murphy; 6/Royal Irish Rifles Lt. W. Eastwood; Royal
Lancaster Regt. Caot. G.D. Timmis.
6/Dragoon
Gds. Lt. J.V. Hermon.
Reserve of
Officers, Maj. Burrell; Lts. Hastie and Mosely.
Duke of
Cornwalls L.I., Maj. Walker.
RAMC, Maj. J.
E. Nicholson and 3 men.
ASC, Bt. Col.
S.J. Lea, C.B.
South African
L.H. Lt. Fry.
Civil Surgeons
Renton, Grace and Fremantle.
LT. 16/03/00
(Friday)
p5d The Sicilian
and the Mexican arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The Magician, from Table Bat, arrived at East London
Wednesday. The Shannon left Bombay with
invalids for Southampton . The Tintagel
Castle arrived at Las Palmas yesterday.
Dateline Buenos
Ayres, March 14. The Angola, with 950
horses, will sail to-night for Cape Town .
p6b Dateline
Southampton , March 15. The Britannic
sailed at 2:30 p.m. with 30 officers, 1 warrant officer, 1,087 men and 3
horses. The listed officers were:
2/Scots
Guards. Col. Inigo Jones; Majs. F.W.
Romilly, D.S.O., E. Milner and E.E.
Hanbury; Capts. R.B. Finnie, S.H.
Godman, A. Stirling, W.F. Lascelles,
the Hon. C.S. Willoughby, and F. McDowell (RAMC attached); Lts. A.M. Southey, J.C.E. Shelley, M. Barne, the Hon. H.J. Fraser, H.F. Maclean, the Hon. J.R.L. Yarde-Buller, J.T. Carpenter-Garnier, J.B. Arbuthnot, and
H.A. Hilton; 2nd Lts. A. Brodie, R.S. Tempest, the Hon. W.A. Trefusis, the Hon. C.E. Craven, Lord G.R. Grosvenor, G.C.B.;
paymaster, Lord Cardones, and the Earl of Granard; Lt. & Adj. J.C. Heriot-Maitland; and Lt. & Qm. W.
Jamieson
16th Brigade
Staff, Maj.-Gen. Barrington Campbell,
Capt. E.F.O. Gascoigac, GG, and Lt. the
Hon. E.C. Gordon-Lennox.
Chaplain, The
Rev. J.R. Wilson
Civil Surgeon,
J.H. Shelton
LT. 17/03/00
(Saturday)
p7d The Orotava
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Australasian has arrived at Durban.
p9c & d
Dateline Southampton , March 16.
The Tagus sailed at 3:20 p.m. with the following :
Royal
Inniskilling Fus., Lt.-Col. R.L. Payne,
D,S.O>
Royal Lancaster
Regt., Capt. Main, Lts. A.H. Kennedy and J. Caddy
Lancashire Fus.,
Capt. J.T. Wood, V.D., Lts. J.
Milnes and O. Baron
Royal Berkshire
Regt., Capt. A.F. Ewen, Lts. W.P. Alleyne and R.J. Clarke
Royal West Kent
Regt., Capt. G. Morphew, Lts. C.N. Watney, and W.G. Morris
Kings Royal
Rifles, Capt. W.J.Y. Warren, Lts. R. fF.
Davies and G.R. Wyld..
Volunteer
Electrical Engineers, Capts. F.L. Lloyd
and A. Bain, Lts. A.H. Pott and J.J.F. OShaughnessy
#51 Co. I.Y., Capt.
Dearae, Lts. H.W. Ryan, J.G.
Kennedy, A. FitzGibbon and M. Martin
#52 Co. I.Y., Capt.
Fraser, Lts. C. Hunt, J.G.B. Lethbridge, C.C. Mahony and
Howall
#68 Co. I.Y., Capt.
J.E. Mignon, Lts. L.C. Larksay
Vyner, and E.F.H. Evans
#57 Co. I.Y., Capt.
Lane-Fox, Lts. A. Slater, T.A.S. Shepherd-Cross, and Ricardo
#58 Co. I.Y., Capt.
Nelson, Lts. Johnson Whitehurst,
N.S. Bretell, and Kevill Davies
#59 Co. I.Y., Capt.
Fisher
Lt. Lord Kesteven 14 Bn. Machine Gun Detachment.
RAMC, Civil
Surgeons E.C. Taylor and C.C. Parsons.
The Bavarian
embarked 89 officers, 2,196 men and 9 horses made up of 29 officers and 900 men
of the 2/Manchester Regt., 29 officers and 1,000 men of the Royal West Kent
Regt., a number of details of 1 officer and 8 men of each of 9 regiments. Additionally there were i officer and 100
men 2/Cheshire Regt., and 100 men of the South Wales Borderers. Long list of named officers here.
The Ashanti
sailed with 393 horses.
LT. 19/03/00
(Monday)
p7e The Avondale
Castle arrived at Cape Town Saturday.
The Dunolly Castle arrived at Cape Town on March 17. The Doune Castle arrived at Natal on the
15th. The Dunvegan Castle arrived at
Natal on 16th. The Sunda has arrived at
St. Vincent . The Simla left Zanzibar on the 17th. The Greek left Cape Town for Southampton on the 15th with 168
invalids. The British Prince arrived at
Las Palmas on the 17th.
p9a, b, & c
The Dunottar Castle sailed Saturday from Southampton with Lady Roberts and
Sir Frederick Carrington among others on board.
Dateline
Southampton , March 18. The Dunera
sailed in stormy weather for South Africa to-day with the 2/GG on board, 36
officers, 4 warrant officers, 1,140 men and 6 horses. The Gaika sailed with 48 officers and 1,540 men. The Aurania sailed with 29 officers and
1,000 men. The Custodian embarked 606
men and 425 horses.
Dateline Tilbury,
March 18. The Braemar Castle embarked
35 officers and 1,476 men from the Worcestershire Regt., 3/GG, 1 & 2/CG and
1/SG. Officers listed.
The hospital ship
Maine will arrive here toward the middle of April with a group of named
officers and 153 men.
LT. 20/03/00
(Tuesday)
p5d The Sumatra
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Nankin, for Durban, left Bombay March 17.
The Formosa arrived at Lorenzo Marques on the 17th.
p7b The Aurania
left Queenstown yesterday, having on board 64 officers and 1,605 men. Of these 6 officers and 361 men of the KOSB,
Oxfordshire L.I. and the Wiltshire Regts.
were embarked at Queenstown.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
21/03/00
p8 Dateline
Lobatsi, Mar. 12. Report line being
clear as far as Pitsani and Boers have evacuated Sequani.
p13 Dateline
Simons Town, Mar. 19. The
transports Orient and Cambridge leave here tomorrow with about 1,500 Boer
prisoners for Green Point.
Cape Times Weekly Edition , 05/07/99 (Wednesday), Page 1,
Col. 1
The Gaul arrived
Cape Town Sunday afternoon with the following: 182 men of the 23rd Field
Co. R.E. Officers listed are Major S.R.
Rice, Lts. E.V. Turner and H.L. Meyrick
and 2nd Lt. R.J.T. Digby-Jones.
Cape Times Weekly Edition , 02/08/99 (Wednesday). Page 1, Col. 1
The Goorkha
arrived Sunday with the following from the ASC: Col. Bridge, C.B., Lt.-Col.
Stanley, Capt. Foster,
Capt. Ludlow, Capt. Atkinson, Capt. Walton, Lt. Pedlar and
Lt. Richards.
Page 1, Col 3. The
mail steamer Dunottar Castle arrived at Cape Town on Tuesday, July 25. Among the passengers were Major Lord E. Cecil, D.S.O. and Lady Cecil; Colonel
Baden-Powell and Lieut. the Hon. A.
Hanbury-Tracey. Net steaming
time 15 days and 19 hours.
Cape Times Weekly Edition , 09/08/99 (Wednesday). Page 3, Col. 1. Dateline Durban,
Aug. 5.
The steamer
Bulawayo brought 5,000 tons of Army Service supplies. The Clan Matheson has also discharged 480 cases of dynamite and
20 cases of detonators.
Cape Times Weekly Edition , 16/08/99 (Wednesday). Page 1, Col. 4.
The Doune Castle
sailed from here last Thursday morning at 7 oclock with a company of M.I. and
the Liverpool Regt. for Natal.
Article here on
Mark IV cartridges here for South Africa .
Page 2, col. 3 &
4. Articles on Boer rifles and poison bullets.
Cape Times Weekly Edition , 30/08/99 (Wednesday). Page 2, Col. 3. Dateline Durban Aug.
23.
Article here
stating use of Lee-Metford cartridges in the Mauser????? This is most interesting but I dont believe
it is possible but interesting that
Boers are buying .303 cartridges.
The Umgeni has
arrived with 114 packages of combustibles and gun-powder, sixteen of which are
for Delagoa.
Cape Times Weekly Edition , 06/09/99 (Wednesday). Page 1, Col. 1.
Lieutenant-General Sir. F.W.E.F.
Forestier-Walker, K.C.B., C.M.G. is expected to arrive to-day by the Norham
Castle. He succeeded General Butler.
Page 4, Col. 4. Dateline Durban, September 1. Col.
Knox, C.B. arrived to-day by the Hawarden to take command of the
batteries of R.A.
Cape Times Weekly Edition .
20/09/99, (Wednesday). Page 1,
Col. 3. Among the passengers who arrived from England on the Briton
Sept. 12, were: Major Heyman, R.A.,
Capt. C.H. Villiers, RHG, Col. W.
Manning, Maj. Young and Lt. G.R. Frith, all R.E.
Page 8, Col. 1. The Goth with a battalion if the
1/Manchester Regiment on board arrived at Table Bay late Thursday night. The following officers were listed:
Lieut.-Col. A.E.R. Curran is in cimmand
and Maj. Simpson is second in
command. The following boarded at
Southampton : Maj. F.W.C. Jones,
RAMC, Lt. G.B.C.R. Crisp, RAMC, 2nd Lts.
W.B. Eddowes and E.N. Fisher, Lt. & Qm. Banker, 1st M.R. and 4 men.
From Gibralter: Lt.-Col. A.E.R.
Curran, Majs. A.E. Sampson and J.E.
Watson; Capts. C.C. Melvill, R.D.
Vizard, A.W. Marden, R.J. Bridgford,
and A. Menzies; Lts. A.G. Tillard, J.E.F. Crichton, C.G. Danks,
R.N. Hardcastle, H. Hunt-Grubbe, F.C.S.
Dunlop, and A.V. Roe; 2/Lts. D.M.
Cogbill, H. Fisher, F.T. Deakin, and
L. Creagh; Capt. & Adj. W.P.E. Newbigging, 1/M.R, Bandmaster E.T.
Quiner, Col.-Sgt. and Sgt. Maj. J.T. Haddon, Qm. Sgt. C. Pike, 1/ M.R. and 952 men.
Cape Times Weekly Edition , 04/10/99 (Wednesday). Page 1, Col. 5. Quoted.
Among the
passengers, who arrived on Sept. 26, at
Cape Town by the U.R.M.S. Scot were the Right Hon. the Earl of Ava, Colonel Frank Rhodes, D.S.O., Major Panzara,
Commander W.L. Grant, Messrs. E.P.
Mathers, Carl Hanau, A. Hirsch (Algoa
Bay), and Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Wessels.
London Times , 21/03/00 (Wednesday)
p5b Dateline
Simons Town, Mar. 19. The Orient and Cambridge leave for Cape
Town tomorrow with 1,500 prisoners for Greenpoint track.
p5c The following
arrived at Cape Town yesterday: The Assaye, the Cymric, the Pavonia and the
Pinemore. The Montrose and the
Britannic have arrived at Las Palmas
. The Avoca has arrived at St. Vincent .
Cape Times Weekly Edition
21/03/00
p8 Dateline
Lobatsi, Mar. 12. Report line being
clear as far as Pitsani and Boers have evacuated Sequani.
p13 Dateline
Simons Town, Mar. 19. The
transports Orient and Cambridge leave here tomorrow with about 1,500 Boer
prisoners for Green Point.
London Times , 22/03/00 (Thursday).
p5d The Tantallon
Castle arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Goorkha arrived at Cape Town on Tuesday. The Sumatra left Cape Town for East London and Durban. The Servia arrived at Port Natal,
Mar.20. The Hilarica left Madeira,
Mar. 20. The Nile has arrived at St.
Vincent. The Dunottar Castle
arrived at Madeira yesterday morning and left in the afternoon for Cape Town .
p10a & b
Dateline Albert Docks, March 21.
The Siberian (Transport No. 46)
sailed thisafternoon with 9 officers and 283 men, all drafts for the RA
1/Suffolk and 1/Essex. Also 167
remounts. The officers are as follows:
R.A. Capt.
W.J. Orr
1/Suffolk 2nd
Lts. Nicholson and Batt.
1st Essex
Lts. Hobkirk and Moffit. 2nd Lt.
Saunders
R.A.M.C. Capt.
Addams Williams
Remount
Officer Capt. Hall
Civil Veterinary
Surgeon R.C. Matthews
Note here listing
of troop units stationed at St. Helena
for POW guards.
The hospital ship
Princess of Wales left Southampton at noon yesterday for South Africa .
p11b List of
gentlemen from Cambridge and Oxford recommended for commissions in the Army.
London Times , 23/03/00 (Friday).
p3d The Cephalonia
arrived at Cape Town on Wednesday evening and the Oriental arrived at Cape Town
yesterday. The Beacon Grange, from
Buenos Ayres, has arrived at Table Bay.
The Roslin Castle from Cape Town arrived at Natal on Wednesday. The Orotava and the Sumatra, from Table Bay
have arrived at East London. The
Bavarian arrived at Las Palmas yesterday.
London Times , 24/03/99 (Saturday).
p7c The Simla
arrived at Natal yesterday. The Nubia,
a hospital ship is scheduled to leave Durban on the 31st for Southampton with
sick and wounded. The Simla will be
fitted up at Durban as a hospital ship to take the place of the Nubia.
The Sumatra left
Cape Town for East London and Durban.
The Assaye left Cape Town yesterday for Durban and the Pongola arrived
at Natal yesterday.
Dateline Cape
Town , March 22. The Lindula with the
staff of Lumsdens Horse from Calcutta, has arrived here.
The Tagus has
arrived at St. Vincent and the Gaika
left Teneriffe yesterday for the Cape.
p13a & b The
City of Rome arrived at Southampton yesterday with 13 officers and 234 men,
sick and wounded. Among those listed was
Trooper Parker of Rimingtons Scouts and the following officers:Staff-
Col. Winter, & Lt.-Col. Walker.
Northumberland Fusiliers, Col.
Fitzgerald & Col.
Friend. Highland L.I., Maj. McClintoek, Capt. Noyes. The Buffs,
Capt. Gregson. Northampton Regt., Capts. R.A. Blacker & Huntsman. Seaforth Highlanders, Lt. Hall.
Black Watch, 2nd Lt.
Drummond. C.G., 2nd Lt. Roundell.
Also one officer from the Cape Mtd.
Rifles.
The Garth Castle,
from Cape Town , arrived at Plymouth yesterday afternoon with a few military
invalids.
The Oriel left
East India Docks yesterday with 4,000 tons of war stores for South Africa .
They consisted of 10,000 rounds of lyddite shell, several million rounds of
small-arm ammunition, a large consignment of medical comforts and 200 new
military wagons.
London Times 26/03/00 (Monday)
p5f The Manchester
Merchant arrived at Cape Town on Friday.
The Milwaukee, from Halifax, has arrived at Table Bay. The Sumatra arrived at Natal on
Saturday. The Templemore, the Assaye,
and the Simla have arrived at East London.
The Tagus left St. Vincent on 25
March for South Africa .
p7d The Umbria,
which calls at Queenstown to embark 20 officers and 502 men, took on board at
Southampton 99 officers and 1606 men.
The Umbria sailed Saturday from Southampton. Listed are:
Staff -
Lt.-Col. F.F. Ditmas and Capt. Streatfeild.
Durham R.A.
Militia - Capts. J. Gowand and Murphy, Lts. R.G.M. Johnson, F.e. Belcombe, and B.T.
Haslewood and 154 men.
Edinburgh R.A.
Militia - Maj. J.E. Lee, Capt. C.W. Brown-Coustable, Lts. H.F. Locock, G.W. Lee, and A.G. Thomas and
about 154 men.
Border Regt. -
140 men.
1st
Gloucestershire Regt. - Capt. H.E.
Platt.
Kings Royal
Rifles - Major Salmon, Lt. Lynes, and
2nd Lts. B. Seymour, R.H. Seymour, Rose, Brown and Abadie and 420 men.
Durham L.I. -
Lts. Lang and Scott, 2nd Lt. Hamilton Grace, and 100 men.
Highland L.I. -
2nd Lts. Gibson and Stevenson and 100
men.
1st Royal
Highlanders - Capt. Wilson-Farquharson
2nd Seaforth
Highlanders - 2nd Lt. Clive and 100 men
Reserve of
Officers - Lt. Radcliffe
North Lancashire
Regt. - Lt. Berkeley
Royal Irish
Rifles - A company
Rifle Brigade -
Lt. Aspinall, 2nd Lts. Verney, Lindsay, and Bassett and 220 men.
No. 11 General Hospital - Majs. H.
Carr and E.J. Lawless, Capt.
C.T. Vanhill, Lts. H.P.W.
Barrow, J.R. Tomory, A.H. MacDougall and Clay, Lt. & Qm. E.
Houghton, Civil Surgeons A.
Gilmour, E. Goddard, J. Hibbert, W.
Steel, J. Whelan, Rowell,
Bodington, and Atkinson and 110 men.
Royal Garrison
Artillery - Lts. W.G. Haig and J. de L.
Pollard-Lowsley, 2nd Lts. C.J.
Tanner, A.F.N. Green, and E.L. Hickling.
Civil Surgeons -
J.E. Adams, W.A. Hubert, T.H. Moyles, J.
Mackae, N.C. Bayles, J. Jones,
J. F.
Lees, D.C. White, W. Thomson,
T. Petty, T.C.L. Jones, J.B. Brown,
A. Thomson, D.M. Greig, H.M. Tiekell,
P.S. Lelean, G. Phillips, P. Kendall, D.S. Wylie, H. Crossley, J.L.G. Gillanders, A.B. Dunne,
T.T. Bark, G.L.K. Finlay, F. Rowland,
C.F. Lillie, Dixon, and Watkins.
Rhodesian Field
Force. - Lts. A.H. Tyler, A.H. Butcher,
P.B. Lawson, and L.P. Winby, Surgeons H.D. Buss, G.A. Richardson, and J. Harpur.
Army Pay Dept. -
Capts. G.G. ON Ray, and A.S.C.
Holbrook.
I.Y. - Capt. Pirie
4/ Somerset L.I.
- Lt. W.E. Long
16th Lancers -
2nd Lt. A.C. Cox
Civil Surgeons -
S.H. White, G. Beatty, W. Tarr, G.M. Brown, F.W. Johnson, W.H. Harland,
and J.A. Swindale.
Special Service -
Capts. H. Wiltshire and E.J. Webley-Parry-Pryse, Lt. G.S. Clive
1/East Kent Regt.
- 2nd Lt. Trusman
10th Hussars -
Lt. Sir J. Milbanke
The America
sailed after the Umbria with 6 officers , 153 men and 274 horses. They were:
Somerset L.I. -
Maj. Lloyd, Lts. Barry and Bally and 100 men.
Yorkshire L.I. -
Capt. Ryder
R.A. - 50 men
with remounts
R.A.M.C. - 3 men
30 horses for
Household Cavalry, 94 for cavalry, 150 for the R.A.
Civil Surgeon -
D.V. Adams
Veterinary
Surgeon - J.W. Brownless
The Briton sailed
last with ordinary passengers and the following:
73 Nursing Sisters, 38 officers, 28 warrant officers and
1,414 men. They were:
1/Liverpool Regt.
- Capt. D. Plomer and 269 men (drafts).
1/York and
Lancaster Regt. - 2nd Lts. H.V.R.
Hodson, H.G. Ruel and L. Corbyn .
1/Devonshire
Regt. - Lt. H. Gardiner and 2nd Lt. W.R. Daniell and 168 men (drafts).
3/Devonshire
Regt. - 2nd Lts. J.C. Pearce and M.T.
Frost.
1/Dorsetshire
Regt. - Lt. A.E.H. Fell
4/East Surrey
Regt. - Lt. H. Neild
1/Derbyshire
Regt. - Capt. T.H.M. Hall-Green
3/East Yorkshire
Regt. - Capt. A. Windham
2/Royal Fusiliers
- 2nd Lt. W.P. Hill.
2/Gordon
Highlanders - 2nd Lt. F. Gordon and 110 men (drafts).
3/Royal
Highlanders - Maj. & Hon.
Lt.-Col. Scott.
2/Royal Dublin
Fusiliers. - 2nd Lt. F.H.P. Goodwin and
100 men (drafts).
1/West Yorkshire
Regt. - Lt. F.H. Peliew
Royal Irish
Fusiliers - Capt. C.C. Mayne, Lts. W.A. Cole Hamilton, H.G. Woolf and 100 men
(drafts).
Leicester Regt -
247 men (drafts).
Manchester Regt.
- 227 men (drafts).
R.A.M.C. -
Maj. E.S. Freer and Civil Surgeon
M. Clark
Edinburgh
Hospital - Sir James Clark, Mr. D.W.
Wallace, Dr. F.D. Boyd, Prof. J.
Chiene, Mr. A.H.H. Watt,
Mr. C.M. Cooper, Mr. G.
Chiene, and Mr. J. Millar.
South
Staffordshire Regt. - Maj. H.A. Raitt.
I.Y. - Col. St.
Quinton
Post Office -
Mr. J.
Greer
Chaplains - The
Rev. A.G. Pentreath, and the Rev,
F. Knapp
Royal Horse
Guards. - Lt. R.A.W. Delacombe and 2nd
Lt. H.
Foster.
The Glengyle left
Southampton yesterday with 2 officers and 22 men of the ASC and RE for St. Helena; 215 remounts for Cape Town ; 6
officers and 96 men for Lord Lovants Corps; 50 RA and some drafts.
London Times , 27/03/00, (Tuesday)
p5b The Nineveh
arrived at Cape Town on Saturday. The
Kildonan Castle and the Ottoman arrived
at Cape Town yesterday. The Braemar
Castle and the Custodian left Las
Palmas March 24. The Aurania and the
Dunera have arrived at St. Vincent .
p7b The Umbria
left Queenstown at 2 p.m. yesterday for Cape Town . She will call at St.
Vincent . She embarked at
queenstown 21 officers and 506 men and 4 horses for a total of 126 officers,
2,165 men and 6 horses.
London Times , 28/03/00 (Wednesday)
p5d The Oriental
left Table Bay on Monday for Natal, via East London. The Ujina, from Calcutta, and the Ranee, from Table Bay have
arrived at East London, March 26. The
Guelph arrived at Natal March 26. The
Assaye and Templemore arrived at Natal yesterday.
p7a&b The
Vancouver left Haliax, N.S. yesterday with the Leinster Regt. , minus 1
co., for Liverpool.
The following are
scheduled for departure on the dates mentioned with "will call at Cape
Town for orders:
Bakaia, Royal
Albert Dock, Mar. 29. Drafts for Royal Scots Fus. & Cheshire
Regt. Det. No 11 Gen. Hosp. & deyails
Devon, Royal
Albert Dock, Mar. 29. Volunteers
1/Northumberland Vol. Art.,
Sections of Vol. Eng. Corps, Devon & Somerset, Lanark,
Aberdeen, Gloucester, Vol. Cos. Royal Fus., Dorsetshire Regt. Det.
No. 11 Gen Hosp. & details.
Delphis, Royal
Albert Dock, Mar.31, Yeomanry No. 69
Co. Sussex, No. 73 Co.
Pagets , 3rd Bn. Machine Gun
Section & Details.
Goth, Southampton
, Mar.31, Queenstown, Apr. 2,
Militia 4/Gloucestershire Regt.(St
Helena), No 6 Co. RGA(eastern Div.),
Det. No. 11 Gen. Hospital &
details.
Winifredian,
Southampton , Apr. 1, Queenstown,
Apr. 3, Drafts R.E., 1/Yorks. Regt., 2/Dorset. Regt., 2/Middlesex Regt., Royal Munster
Fus., Det. No. 11 Gen.
Hospital, Remounts & Details.
Galeka,
Southampton , Apr. 4. Yeomanry
#50 Co. Hants., #60 Co. Belfast(3), #61 Co. Irish -Dublin, (2), #65
Co. , Leicester (2), #67 Co., Sharpshooters(1), #70 Co., Sharpshooters (2), #71
Co., Sharpshooters (3), #75 Co., Sharpshooters(4), 17th Bn. Staff Hospitals(Naas), Hospital Staff(Naas),
Veterinary Staff(Naas), Servants(Naas), 18th Bn. Staff(London), Hospital Staff(London), Veterinary Staff(London),
Servants(London).
British Princess,
Royal Albert Dock, April 4. Drafts 2/Royal Warwickshire Regt., 2/Lancashire
Fus., 2/Royal Highlanders, remounts, Det.
RAMC & details.
Montcalm,
Liverpool, Apr. 5., Yeomanry &
remounts.
Persia,
Southampton , Apr. 5, Drafts 2/West
Yorkshire Regt., 1/Royal Irish Regt., 2/Gloucestershire Regt., remounts,
Det. RAMC, Details.
Manchester
Corporation, Tilbury Dock, Apr.
13. Drafts remounts, Det. RAMC & Details.
Narrung, Royal
Albert Dock, Apr. 15. Drafts
remounts, Det. RAMC &
Details.
Dilwara,
Southampton ,Apr. 15. 1/Leinster Regt., Drafts, Det. RAMC & Details.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
28/03/00
p4 Dateline
Lobatsi, Mar. 14. Action at Lobatsi.
Several casualties including: Allen, Mowbray, Loggy, Chapman, Hewett, Young,
Wardley, Tyler.
London Times , 29/03/00 (Thursday)
p3d The Oriental
has arrived at East London. The Briton
arrived at Madeira yesterday morning and sailed later for Cape Town . The Gascon, with invalids, left Durban on
Tuesday for Southampton .
London Times , 30/03/00 (Friday)
p5b The Cornwall
and the Moor arrived at Cape Town on Wednesday. The Orient, from Table Bay, and the Simla, from East London,
arrived at Natal on Wednesday. The
Serbian has arrived at St. Vincent .
p7a & b
Dateline Albert Docks, Mar.
29. The Rakaia sailed at noon
to-day with 12 officers and 203 men.
They were:
1/West India
Regt., Maj. H.A. Hill
2/Royal Scottish
Fusiliers, Capts. G.J. Ferguson and
Buchanan, 2nd Lt. H.C. Crichton and 100
men.
2/Cheshire Regt.,
Lt. A.S. Ash and 100 men.
Northampton Regt.,
Lts. R.W. Rawlins and J. Wood Martin.
R.F.A. 2nd
Lt. C.
Groves
3/East Kent
Regt., 2nd Lt. J.E. Thomson
2/Norfolk Regt.,
2nd Lts. P.C. Bernard and F.G. Hawksley
A.S.C.,
Capt. T. Garside Spraight
Civil Surgeon,
A.E. Horn
Detachment RAMC
The Delphic sails
Saturday, the British Princess on Monday and the Devon probably on Tuesday.
400 artillery
horses and 57 cavalry horses left Woolwich by special train to Southampton to
embark in the Rippington Grange for South Africa . 265 additional horses from Aldershot and Hounslow. Total of 850(?)
The Winifredian,
to sail from Southampton on Sunday will take 455 horses and the British
Princess from Royla Albert Dock, will sail on Monday with 345 horses.
London Times , 31/03/00 (Saturday)
p7c The Mahratta
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Ranee arrived at Natal on Mar. 28. The Siberian arrived at Las Palmas on
Wednesday.
p13a & b The
Goth leaves Southampton to-day with 20 officers and 600 men of the 4/Gloucester
Regt., under Lt.-Col. Lord Bathurst for
St. Helena. The Goth will also carry camp equipment, including tents,
bedding, cooking utensils, hospital stores and food supplies for St. Helena.
London Times , 02/04/00 (Monday)
p5e The Tintagel
Castle arrived at Cape Town on Saturday.
The Oriental arrived at Durban on Saturday. The Umbria and the America have arrived at St. Vincent .
p7a & b The
Goth sailed from Southampton on Saturday with passengers and some troops.
She emnarked 8 officers and 172 men at Southampton and will
take on 19 officers and 395 men at Queenstown.
The officers were: For St Helena - Maj.
H.W. Austin, RAMC and 13 men (11 RAMC).
For Cape Town - Maj. A.B. Shute, Capts. J. Bruce and K. Hughes, Lts. W. Matthews, W. Edmeades, and T. Goff, RGA. and 172 men of
#6 Co. East Div. R.A. and a few details. Civilian Surgeon G.E. Lockyer, in medical
charge.
The Rippingham
Grange sailed from Southampton on Saturday with 3 officers, 2 civilian surgeons,
3 men and 850 remounts. The officers
were: Lt.-Col. Yeates Brown, Maj. A.
Gould and Capt. Streeter. Civilian Surgeons were J.H. Bell and H.W.
Phelan.
The Carisbrooke
Castle also sailed from Southampton on Saturday with passengers for the Cape
including 14 I.Y. as private passengers.
She listed 13 officers and 43 men as troops aboard. Officers named for
embarking in the Carisbrooke Castle were: All I.Y. 3rd Bn. Staff, Lt. & Qm. Pickering; 14th Bn. Staff, Col.
A.M. Brookfield, Maj. Sir
Archibald Lamb, Capt. & Adj. the
Hon. H.E.V. Dunscombe, Lt. &
Qm. H.T. Pomfret, & Capt. A.
Vidler.; 15th Bn. Staff, Vet.-
Lt. H.C. Taylor & Lt. T.E. Topping; 19th Bn. Staff, Col.
H. Paget, C.B., Maj. G.
Bagot, Capt. McLachlen, and Lt.
& Qm. Shaw.
The Winifredian
sailed Sunday night at 7 p.m. with 30 officers, 704 men and 167
horses. She will embark 3 officers, 300
men and 290 horses at Queenstown. Those
named were:
1/Essex Regt.,
Lt.-Col. C. Wood
2/Royal
Highlanders, 2nd Lt. R.G. Webber.
West Riding
Regt., Capt. K. Macleod.
3/Hants. Regt.
Lt. F.W. Earle.
4/Rifle Brigade,
Capt. E.A. Dawson and Lt. G.P.A. Cox.
3/Royal Irish
Regt., Capt. G.H.P. Colley.
1/Northumberland
Fus., Capt. C.E. Fishbourne & 2nd
Lt. J.W. Nelson.
4/Vol. Bn.
East Surrey Regt. Capt. C.E. Ferry
4/Lincolnshire
Regt., Capt. E.K. Cordeaux.
2/North
Staffordshire Regt., 2nd Lt. H.S.
Richards.
Reserve of
Officers, Capts. H. Lawless & Maitland.
2/Derbyshire
Regt., Capt. C.R. Atkins.
3/East
Yorks. Regt., 2nd Lt. Hill.
3/Scottish Fus.,
Capt. Vaughan & 2nd Lt. Thornburn
Civil Surgeons,
J.F. Dixon, A. Balfour, A.E. Ash,
W. Ashford, G.P. Parnell, J.H.
Wilkinson, C.H. Polston, J.W. Pridmore, J.C.G. Macnab, and A.R. Laing.
Chaplain the
Rev. S.F.H. Rogers and the Rev. F.Edwards.
Dateline Albert Dock, Mar.
31.
The Delphic
sailed this afternoon for the Cape with 8 officers and 225 men. They were:
The Sussex Co.,
Lts. William Wynn, Ashby and Cory.
No. 73 Co., Capt. Scott and Lts. Leslie and
Webber.
Machine Gun
Sect. Lt. Donnisthorpe.
15th Bn. Staff., Capt. Hopkinson.
London Times 03/04/00 (Tuesday)
p5d The Sunda
arrived at Cape Town on Apr. 1. The Atlantian, from Sydney, arrived at Table
Bay on Mar. 31. The Antillian and the Roslin Castled arrived
at Natal on April. 2. The Glengyle has arrived at St. Vincent .
The following
R.N. officers from the Powerful who were landed in South Africa, have left the
Cape for England: Lt. R.F. White,
Maj. A.G.B. Urmston, RMLI, Surgeon C.M.
Beadnell, Gunner William Sims, Midshipmen G.E. Lewin & T.C. Armstrong in
the Pindari; Midshipman E.G. Chichester in the Orotava and Lt. A.W. Heneage in the German.
p7b Dateline
Albert Docks, April 2. The British
Princess sailed at 2:30 this afternoon with 16 officers, 398 men and 350
remounts. The troops were drafts for
the 2/Lancashire Fus., 2/Royla Highlanders, and 2/Warwick Regt. The officers were:
Lancashire
Fusiliers, Maj. Amber, Capt. Radcliffe, & 2nd Lt. C.R.J. Hopkinson.
2/Royal
Highlanders, Lt. Innes, 2nd Lts. D.
Campbell, A.E. Parker, & J.
Mackenzie.
3/Yorks. L.I.,
Maj. Hayes Sadler
RGA, Capt. Parry.
1/Bengal Inf.,
Lt. MacTavish
Reserve of
Officers, Lt. Ferguson Davis.
4/Bedford,
Lt. Talbot
2/Northampton,
2nd Lt. R.B. de B. Hodge.
5/D.G., 2nd
Lt. M.A. Black
Civil Surgeon,
C.H. Ralston
Civil Vet. Surg.
C.J. Carrick
The Goth left
Queenstown yesterday afternoon for Gibralter, St, Helena and Cape Town . She
embarked 19 officers and 395 men of the 4th Gloucestershire who are for duty at
St. Helena.
The sailing of
the Galeka and the Persia from Southampton has been delayed until Friday.
London Times 04/04/00 (Wednesday)
p5c & d
Dateline Cape Town April 2.
The transport Chicago is leaving for Beira with a portion of the
Bushmens Corps and horses and mules.
She also takes plant (Plate?) for the Rhodesian Railway. A large stock of supplies and provisions is
also going to Beira.
The Nile and the
British Prince arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Maplemore, from Sydney and Western Australia, with part of the Australian
Contingent , and the Duke of Portland from Brisbane, with the third Queensland
Contingent arrived at Table Bay April 2.
The Woolwich, from Melbourne, arrived at Natal, April 2. The Kildonan Castle and the Pavonia have
arrived at East London. The Gaika
arrived at St. Helena yesterday and
left in the evening for South Africa .
Dateline Buenos
Ayres, April 2. The Kildona left
last night for Cape Town with 720 horses, and the Surrey will leave to-morrow
with 1000 horses.
p10c & d
Dateline Albert Docks, April 3.
The Devon sailed this afternoon for the Cape with 17 officers and 516
men and 179 horses. The officers listed
were:
R.A. Maj.
Harvey Scott, Capt. J. Wreford, Lts. H.S. Bell, W.C. MCarthy, R.
Wilson and W. Dotchin.
Royal Fusiliers,
Capt. W.S. Friedberger, and Lts. E.
Reilly and A. Tyle.
R.E., Lts. E.S. Paton, J. Lang, R.A. Duthie, and E.S. Ricketts.
Dorset Regt.,
Lts. R. Lano and M.J. Wheatley.
Civil Surgeon
F.B. Mudd.
The Winifredian
arrived at Queenstown yesterday morning and embarked 6 officers and 328 men and
300 remounts, bringing a total of 38 officers, 1,005 men and 497 remounts for
the Cape. She sailed at 7 p.m.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
04/04/00
p1 Dateline
Lobatsi Mar. 16. Here mention of Lt.
Tyler being killed by a shell yesterday.
p13 Dateline 15
Feb. 1900. Here a summary of events and discussion of local loyalties to date
along the Plumer line.
London Times 05/04/00 (Thursday)
p5c Dateline Cape
Town April 3. The Milwaukee, with Gen
Cronje, Col. Schiel and 1,000 Boer
prisoners on board sailed for St Helena this evening. The Niobe is escorting.
The Tagus arrived
at Cape Town yesterday. The Kildonan
Castle and the Trojan arrived at Natal April 3.
p7c The Canada
with about 500 refugees arrived ar Southampton yesterday morning from the Cape.
London Times 06/04/00 (Friday)
p5c Dateline Cape
Town, April 4. The Atlantian and the
Euryalus, with the Australian Bushmen, are sailing for Beira.
p5e The Britannic
and the Avoca(hospital ship) arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The Cephalonia, from Table Bay, has arrived
at East London. The Sunda, from London
and Table Bay, arrived at Algoa Bay April 4.
The hospital ship Nubia, for Southampton , left Table Bay on Wednesday
with sick and wounded.
London Times , 07/04/00 (Saturday)
p7b The Bavarian
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Umbria left St. Vincent on Apr. 5.
The Rakaia left Teneriffe on Apr.
5.
p12c & d The
Galeka sailed from Southampton last night with 63 officers and 1,019 men and 53
horses for service in Rhodesia. She
will call at Teneriffe and then sail directly to Beira. Those named are:
Imperial
Yeomanry Lt.-Cols. R.K. Parke, and St. L.
Moore; Major S.J. De Burgh; Captains, R.L. Moore, C. Barton, Sir Savile Crossley, A. Nicholson, W.A. Peake, T.A. Hill, T.A.
Martin, M.B.C.W. Warden, and H.C. Carden; Lieutenants, H.I. Fuller, D. Marriott, W.C. Newton, Sir A.H. Armstrong,
C.C. Macdowell, C. Langford, H.I.
Curley, C.I. Dyke, The Earl of Fingall, R.
Lamb, Sir R. Nelson-Rycroft,
Harvey Dales, R.B. Muir, ?. A. Belville, Sir F.F.C. Fowke, C.E. Challiner,
J.H. Coles, L.E. Pilkington, J.H. Torrance, W.N. Clark, H. Andrew, Sir W.F. Miller, N. Hotchkiss, M.A. Peach, I.W.A. Parr, F.W.J.
Jones, H.C. Harvey, J. Browne, J.
Corbet Warde, P. Gabbett, O.N.
Seagrave, H.C. Ca;dwell, T.S. Mulland, and J.A.G. Hamilton; Vet. Officer F.
Gregory; Dr. Whyte.
Rhodesia Field
Force Majors G. Wright, A.
Paria, G.E. Giles, Lt. A.G.
Lindsay; Civil Vet. Surgeon S. Stockman; Surgeon H.N. Pelly; Capt. J.
Hasler; Lt. A. Smith-Dorrien; Civil Vet. Surgeon E.C. Norgate.
40 Maxim guns for
the use of Colonial Troops have been despatched to Southampton for loading in
the Scot, due to sail today.
p13c A telegram
from Cape Town announced that the Mexican and the Winkfield collided 80 miles
from Cape Town . The Mexican was
abandoned sinking. The Winkfield had
sailed from Albert Docks on Mar.
13. with 15 officers, 310 men
and 241 horses. The Mexican was
carrying passengers.
London Times 09/04/00 (Monday)
p5e The Montrose
and the Winkfield arrived at Cape Town April 6. The British Prince has arrived at Algoa Bay. The Urmston Grange, from Table Bay, has
arrived at Port Elizabeth. The Avondale
Castle arrived at Natal April 6. The
Delphic passed Teneriffe April 6. The
Winifredian has arrived at Las Palmas .
Dateline Buenos
Ayres, April 8. The Iona left here
yesterday with 902 horses and the Mary Park left to-day with 810 horses, both
for Cape Town .
Dateline Cape
Town April 7. The Bavarian has arrived
here. She reported speaking with the
disabled Mount Lebanon in mid ocean.
p7 a & b The
Persia sailed from Southampton on Saturday with 31 officers, 472 men and 190
horses. Those named were:
2/West Yorkshire
Regt., Capt. B. Metcalfe Smith.
3/York &
Lancaster Regt., Lt. R.D.C. Harley.
1/Royal Irish
Regt., 2nd Lts. J.L. Cotter & G.A.
OCallaghan.
1/Sussex Regt.,
Lts. E.F. Villers & F.W.B. Willett.
2/Gloucestershire
Regt., Capt. J.W. Wingfield Digby
5/Middlesex
Regt., Lt. F.E. Hodder.
RFA, 2nd Lt. P.
Sheppard.
Civil Vet. Surgeon, J.A. Russell
2/Welsh Regt.,
Capt. W. Charleton.
1/East Kent
Regt., Capt. A.G. Trollope.
2/East Kent
Regt., Maj. G.V. Dawglish, Lt. H.
Engelback, 2nd Lts. F.M.
Ransford, P.C. Harland & F.W. Tomlinson.
3/Duke of
Cornwalls L.I., 2nd Lts. E.E. Barrow
& J.E.S. Trelawny.
RAMC, Lt. & Qm. William Clarke.
AOD, Capt. McCheane & Lt. E. Robertson
Army Pay Dept.,
Lt.-Col. G.H. Moore-Lane, &
Capt. H. Vowell.
Civil Surgeons,
H.K. Ramsden, J.W. Thomson, & W.B. Bennett.
Chaplains, The
Rev. E.S. Goudge, & the Rev. J.J.M. Cowper.
6/Royal Fus., 2nd
Lt. Waley.
Later Saturday
the mail steamer Scott sailed with 39 Vickers-Maxim guns and other
munitions. She carried, as ordinary
passengers the following officers;
Staff, Capt. A.G. Ferguson.
South Wales
Borderers, Capt. H.G. Casson.
Worcestershire
Regt., Capt. A.F. Custanee.
Warwickshire
Regt., Maj. G.R. Powell.
RFA, Capt. C.J.N. Morris
C.G., Capt. R.J. Marker
Post office Corps
- 8 men
Nursing sisters -
2
The Pembroke
Castle arrived at Plymouth at 6 oclock yesterday morning with 216 sick and
wounded from South Africa . Of the
total only 78 were wounded. Those named
were:
Welsh Regt.,
Maj. Ball.
East Kent Regt.,
Capt. Marriott.
A & S
Highlanders, Lts. Cuningham and Muir
1/Essex Regt.,
Lt. Thomson
RFA, Lt. Boyd
2/Seaforth
Highlanders, Lt. Waterhouse.
The Greek arrived
at Southampton yesterday morning with 16 officers and 160 men, sick and
wounded.
The Majestic
brought to Southampton last evening 40 officers and 310 men, sick and wounded.
London Times , 10/04/00 (Tuesday)
p5b & c
Dateline East London, April 5.
The third contingent of New Zealanders will sail for Beira to-morrow on
the Ujina.
The Braemar
Castle arrived at Cape Town April 8.
The Aurania has arrived at Cape Town .
The British Princess, for Cape Town , has passed Las Palmas . Correction - The hospital ship Nubia left Cape Town for Southampton with
sick and wounded on Apr. 7 , not
Apr. 4.
Dateline Sydney,
April 9. The Armenian has arrived
here.
p12b
"Gen. the Hon. Sir Percy Feilding has been selected for
appointment as colonel of the Suffolk Regt.
My note.
London Times 11/04/00 (Wednesday)
p4e & f Note
here article on Army Medical Dept., location of field hospitals, No. of beds, etc. My note.
p5d The Briton and
the Gaika arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Sunda arrived at Natal on April 7.
The Urmston Grange left Algoa Bay April 9, for East London.
p12b From the
London Gazette, Tuesday, April 10.
"The Suffolk Regt. - Gen.
the Hon. Sir P.R.B. Feilding,
K.C.B., to be Colonel, vice Gen. J.M.
Percival, C.B., deceased. My note.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
11/04/00
p2 & 3 Dateline
Gaberones, Mar. 24. Snymans attack on
the 15th and shelled Lobatsi on the 17th , then returned to Mafeking.
Dateline Mar.
28. Col. Plumers forces to recon.
within 12 miles of Zeerust on 27th
p4 Dateline
Maritzburg, Apr. 5. Here a list of Boer
casualties from Boer List #31, dated 18 Jan. 1900.
p12 Here parts of
a letter from a wounded soldier taking part of the thwarted attack on the Boer
Fort at Crocodile Pools.
p 13 Here story of
the collision of the Mexican and Winkfield about 80 miles N.W Robben Island.
London Times 12/04/00 (Thursday).
p3d Dateline
Sydney, April 11. The Manchester Port
and Manhattan have arrived here.
The Custodian
arrived at Cape Town on Tuesday. The
Dunera arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Hilarius arrived at Table Bay April 10. The Aurania, from Table Bay, has arrived at Algoa Bay. The Avoca, from Table Bay, arrived at Natal
April 10. The Urmston Grange and the
Nile, from Table Bay, arrived at Natal April 11.
Dateline Buenos
Ayres, April 11. The Bellona left
here to-day for Cape Town with 612 horses.
London Times , 13/04/00 (Friday)
p3d Dateline Cape
Town , April 12. The Lake Erie will
soon sail with Boer Prisoners for St.
Helena.
The Glenmorven,
from Fiume, and the Monterey, from Halifax (Carrying Lord Strathconas Canadian
Contingent) have arrived at Table Bay.
The Britannic, from Algoa Bay,
arrived at Table Bay , April 11.
The Formosa, for Beira, left Lorenzo Marques, April 11. The Hawarden Castle and the Yorkshire have
arrived at East London. The Galeka
arrived at Teneriffe at 6 a.m. and left at noon for Cape Town .
p5b The following
invalid officers have left for England on the Orotava, March 31.
2/East Surrey
Regt., Maj. H.L. Smith, Maj. H.P. Treeby.
Royal Navy,
Mr. Chichester.
18th Hussars,
Capt. Hon. H.S. Davey.
16th Lancers,
Capt. A.G. Dallas.
1/Liverpool
Regt., Lt. G.H. Brush.
1/Suffolk Regt.,
Maj. E.A. Kemble.
1/Sussex Regt.,
Lt. R.C. Griffin
1/Essex Regt.,
Lt. A.P. Churchill.
2/South Yorkshire
Regt., 2nd Lt. A.C.G. Luther.
1/Highland Light
Inf., 2nd Lt. W.N. Fraser
2/Seaforth
Highlanders, Capt. E.A. Cowans.
1/Gordon
Highlanders, 2nd Lt. W.B.J. Mitford.
ASC, Capt. S.L. Reynolds, RAMC, Maj. F.A. Harris.
And 203 sick and
wounded men.
For duty are:
Maj. Burnside, RAMC., Chaplain
Rev. Ree, 4 lady nurses and 8 officers
servants
The Austral left
for England April 5 with the following invalid officers: Col. Henderson, Staff in charge.
5th DG. Lt.
Hon. R.L. Pomeroy.
18th Hussars,
Lt. A.C. McLachlan.
1/East Lancashire
Regt., 2nd Lt. Bonnyman.
2/Royal Irish
Rifles, Maj. Seton, Capt. Bell.
RHA., Maj. Brecks, Lt.
Thompson
2/South Wales
Borderers, Capt. Van Straubenzee.
2/ Duke of
Cornwalls Light Inf., 2nd Lt. Grigg.
RAMC, Maj. Moleworth
And 177 sick and
wounded men.
London Times , 14/04/00, (Saturday)
p3c Dateline Cape
Town April 13. The transport Mount
Lebanon, with horses on board, has arrived here. She broke her shaft in mid-ocean and was towed 2,000 miles by the
Empress, a Tyne collier.
London Times , 16/04/00 (Monday)
p3c & d The
Bavarian, from Algoa Bay, arrived in, and departed from Natal, April 12. The British Prince, from Algoa Bay arrived
at Natal , April 13, and the Hawarden Castle arrived April 14 at Natal. The Dunera and Custodian have arrived at
Algoa Bay. The Persia arrived at Las
Palmas .
p8a & b
General Sir George White arrived at Southampton on Saturday in the
Dunvegan Castle.
The Canada sailed
from Southampton on Saturday with 74 officers, 30 nurses, 1,434 men and 23
horses. Officers listed were:
Imperial Yeomanry Lt.-Col.
R.B. Covin, C.O., Maj. H.A.
Anderson, Capts. R. Golightly, D.S.O., H. Barlow, Viscount Maitland (Adj.), T. Walcot (Medical officer), E. Chadwick, H.C. Colvin, B.H. Piercey, S.R.
Crosfield, H. Bonham; Lts. Sir J.R.G. Sinclair, L.F.A. Barlow, L.D.
Passy, E. Cristie, Hon. L.
Amilles-Lado, J.H. Patterson, C.J. Fauval, J.H. Crane, P.T. Bell, W.L.
Thursby, H.B. Magniac, W. McKie, E.A.
Digby, R. Wynne(Qm.), D.C. Barningham
(Vet. Surg.), G. Moore, J.W.S. Dalrymple-Clark, T.M. Greer,
F. Sowler, A.A. Hopkinson, R.H. Cawley,
C.R. Pilkington, E.D. Johnson, F.A.B. McRae, H.W.F. Musgrove, G.J. Codrington,
A.F. Watt, J.B.H. Goodden, T.M. Broadbent, C.
Sawrey-Cookson, H.G. McKenzie-Rew, Lord Zouche, L. Pelly, O.B. Rickards, A.E.G. Batt (Vet. Surg.)
F. Ewart, B. Jones, F.
Gore, and F. Madan.
Welsh
Hospital Maj. Cockerill, RAMC, Prof. Jones, Messrs. Roberts, Evans, Davies, Carter (Qm.),A.W. Hughes (Secretary);
Dressers, A.C. Oliver, R.H. Hughes, E.L. Jenkins, J.H. Jenkins, Eames,
Stephens; Nurses Lloyd (Matron), A.
Williams, B. Williams, Lewis,
Sage, Martin, Jones, Owen, Pughe, Lloyd.
A.O.D. Capt.
McCann (C.G.O.)
I.Y. Staff XX
Bn. Mr. J. Steele,
Army Nursing
Service Reserve, Nursing Sisters, M.
Goodline, C.L. Agg,, M.C. Fraser, F. Macdonald, M. Patterson, A.N. Martin, M.G. Denton, A.D.
Hook, E.E. Cockburn, H.L. Henderson, E.A. Handcock, A.V. Latham, C.L. Travis,
J. Overbeek, M.T. Enright, M.A. Cain,
G.A. Boys.
Chaplain Rev.
Rockliff
R.A. Capt.
Baker.
Civil
Surgeons Messrs. Fortes-Leslie, Corby, Pamsay, Smith, Worth.
The Gaul sailed
Saturday with a Vol. Co. of Cameron Highlanders.
London Times , 17/04/00 (Tuesday)
p3c The Umbria and
the America arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Ashanti arrived at Table Bay April 12. The Algeria left Table Bay for Durban, April 14.
p4a Dateline
Albert Docks, April 16. The Narrung
sailed to-day with 23 officers, 199 men and 191 horses. The following are the named officers:
A.O.C. Maj.
A Samut
Remount
officer Capt. Jackson
17th Lancers
Lt. Hon. W.R. Wyndham
8th Hussars 2nd Lts.
Lord Hindlip, T. Morris, N.L.
Calvert, R. Anketell-Jones.
6th Dragoons 2nd Lts.
A.W. Swanston, C.R. Terrott, A.E. Gibbs
Civil Vet. Surg.
J.G. Stanley-Clarke
Civil
Surgeons H. Browning, A.M.G. Walker, J.G. Martin, H.A. Scott, H.H. Hollick,
H.C.W. Wood, H.G. Brown, J.W. Miller, J.C. Ramsay.
Royal Malta
Militia Lt.-Col. R.P. Samut.
The Doune Castle
arrived at Plymouth yesterday morning with 101 invalid officers and men.
London Times , 18/04/00 (Wednesday)
p3 a , b & c
Dateline Beira, April 14. The
Atlantian, the Maplemore, and the Euryalus have arrived here with Australian
Bushmen under command of Lt.-Col.
Airey. There were 1,100 men and
their mounts, about 1,200 mules and transport vehicles.
The Palatina and
the Bulawayo, with railway material, are also in the harbour.
Dateline St. Helena, April 16. The Milwaukee landed Boer prisoners to-day at St. Helena.
The Jamaican
arrived at Natal April 16 and left yesterday for Table Bay. The Columbian, for Beira, left Table Bay
April 16.
Dateline Buenos
Ayres, April 17. The Nyanza left
to-day for Cape Town with 860 horses and the Induna follows this week with 950
horses.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
18/04/00
p1 Dateline
Gaberones, 01 April. Yesterday
morning Col. Plumer with 270 mounted and a few dismounted men and 1 Maxim,
arrived at Ramathlabama where they left the dismounted men and the Maxim. The
column followed the railway line south to within 6 miles of Mafeking. Here they
encountered the enemy and a running battle was fought back to Ramathlabama
where the Maxim came into play. Here a
list of the killed, wounded and missing, etc.
London Times , 19/04/00 (Thursday)
p3b The Glengyle
arrived at Cape Town , April 17. The
Oriel arrived at Cape Town yesterday.
The Pavonia, from Algoa Bay, the Custodian and Lindula, from Table Bay,
the Muttra, from Bombay, the orient, from Natal and the Cephalonia have arrived
at East London. The Siberian and the
Uganda have arrived at Algoa Bay. The
Formosa, from Beira, arrived at Lorenzo Marques, April 17. The Delphic arrived at St. Helena, April 17 and left for New Zealand
ports via the Cape.
p8b & c The
Dilwara sailed from Southampton yesterday with 52 officers, 1 warrant officer,
1,323 men and 5 horses. Of the
total, 28 officers and 1,049 men were
of the 1/Leinster Regt. The officers
listed were:
1/Leinster
Regt. Lt.-Col. H.
Martin; Majors A.T.G. Foulerton, W.
Seton, T.H. Savert; Captains S.R.L. White, H.N.C. Dickinson, T.F.W.
Ricketts, J. Craske, R.F. Legge,
G.L.P.P. OShea; Lieutenants J.D. Mather, B.J. Jones, C.R. Macdonald, J.D. Waddell,
H.C. Leincester, C.E. Martin, P.
McCausland, R.M. Raynsford; 2nd Lieutenants J.F. Scobell, W. Wandby, O.M. Denison, R.A.H. Orpen-Palmer,
T.H. Butler-Kearney, N.S. Brooke; Capt. & Adj. T.R. Dugan, Lt. &
Qm. G.
Garrett.
2/Lincolnshire
Regt. Capt. C. Gaitskell, Lt. F.G. Springs, 2nd Lts. C.R.B. Aked, R.D. Warren.
R.A. Capt.
C.B. Simonds
A.O.D. Capt.
P.G. Davies, Lts. W.A. Phillips,
F.H. Quennell
Scots Guards Capt.
A. Stirling
3/Leinster
Regt. Lt. V. Shortt.
Chaplains The Revs.
D. Lane, W.R. Paterson, Dowding
4/K.R.R.C. Lts.
A.H. Catheart, R.L.C. Hobson
4/Rifle
Brig. Lt. B.G.R. Oldfield
I.Y. Lt.
H. de Ferville, Dr. Laffan, Civil Surgeons, W.H. Hunter, W.H.
Odlum, T.C. Caldwell, J.J. OReilly.
2/Royal Lancaster
Regt. Capt. Lethbridge
A.S.C. 2nd Lt.
Cutbill
To Cape Town for
Mauritius, R.G.A. 2nd Lts. C.A. Johnstone Smith, F.E. Koeled.
For the
Rambler Sub-Lt. C.L. Young.
For the Doris The Rev. W.M. Tod, Chief Boatswain B.W. Mahoney.
The Dictator
arrived at Southampton last evening with 2 officers and 109 invalids .
London Times 20/04/00 (Friday)
p3c The Urmston
Grange, from Natal, has arrived at East London. The Formosa, for Beira, left Lorenzo Marques, April 18. The Templemore arrived at Table Bay April
18.
London Times, 21/04/00 (Saturday)
p7c & d The
following have arrived at Table Bay by April 19: From London, the Louisiana,
the Venetia, the Rydal Hall and the Siberian; from Cardiff and Gibralter, the
Mombasa; from St. John, N.B., the
Menantic; and also the Montenegro and the Surrey.
The following
have arrived at Natal: The Columbian, from Table Bay, the Dunera , from Algoa
Bay, the Lindula, from East London, and the Mohawk, all on April 18; the
Algeria, from Table Bay, on April 19; the Pavonia, from Algoa Bay and East
London, on April 20.
The Canada, for Table
Bay, has arrived at Las Palmas . The
Gaul arrived at Teneriffe April 19 and left for Table Bay Yesterday.
London Times , 23/04/00 (Monday)
p5e Dateline
St. Helena, April 12. The Lake Erie has arrived with 394 Boer
prisoners including 34 officers. The
Goth has brought 400 Militia.
The Narrung has
arrived at Las Palmas and the hospital ship, Princess of Wales has arrived at
St. Vincent.
p10d A detachment
of troops from Northumberland Vol.
Art., the Vol. Service Co. of the East Yorkshire Regt. and the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital
left Southampton in the Pembroke Castle, Saturday for South Africa .
London Times , 24/04/00 (Tuesday)
p5d Dateline
Sydney, April 23. The New South Wales
portion of the Imperial Bushmen, consisting of 750 officers and men with 800
horses, embarked in the Armenian this afternoon.
The Winifredian
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Custodian, from East London, arrived at Natal, April 20.
p10c The Gascon
arrived at Southampton yesterday with invalids, 13 officers and 149 men. The German also arrived at Southampton
yesterday and she carried 21 officers and 162 men as invalids. The hospital ship Maine also arrived at
Southampton yesterday with 12 officers and 151 men on board.
London Times , 25/04/00 (Wednesday)
p5d The Delphic,
the British Princess and the Rippington Grange arrived at Cape Town
yesterday. The Rakaia arrived at Cape
Town on Monday. The Duke of Portland,
from Table Bay, arrived ar Beira on the 19th.
At Table Bat, the City of Lucknow, with 851 horses, arrived yesterday;
the Urmston Grange, from East London, on Monday; and the Jamaican, from Natal,
on the 21st. The Induna, for Table Bay,
left Buenos Ayres on the 21st with 950 horses.
The Cavour, Table Bay for London, has arrived at St. Vincent and the hospital ship Princess of
Wales, Southampton for sa, has left St.
Vincent .
p10b Dateline
Albert Docks, April 24. The
Ulstermore (6,411 tons)sailed to-day with 12 officers, 494 men and 386
horses. The troops were from: Cameron
Highlanders (100), 1/Sussex Regt.(100), A.S.C.(100), R.A.M.C.(74), St. Johns Ambulance Corps (117), and R.A.
(3). The officers listed were:
2/Gordon
Highlanders Capt. A.L.H. Buchanan
1/Gordon
Highlanders 2nd Lt. A.L. Davis
4/Norfolk
Regt. Capt. H.G. Ferguson, D.S.O.
6/Middlesex
Regt. Capt. G.W.B. Tattersall
1/Cameron
Highlanders Lt.-Col. Patton-Bethune
R.F.A. Lt.
R.W. St. L. Gethin
R.A.M.C. Capt.
G. McLoughlin, D.S.O.
Civil
Surgeons A.S. Arthur, Forde, Dogdson
Civil Vet. Surgeon
W.H. Nichol
Chaplain Rev.
Moloney
London Times , 26/04/00 (Thursday)
p5d The Persic arrived at Cape Town
yesterday. The Formosa arrived at
lorenzo Marques on Tuesday from Beira.
The British Prince, from Natal, arrived at Table Bay on Tuesday. The Queensland, from Table Bay , arrived at
Algoa Bay on Tuesday. The Kelvingrove
and the Horatius, both for East London, left Table Bay on Tuesday. The Umbria arrived at Algoa Bay . The Lismore Castle left Cape Town on
Saturday for Southampton with invalids.
The hospital ship Nubia arrived at Las Palmas on Tuesday and left later
that day. She is expected at
Southampton next Tuesday. She carries
12 officers and 282 men invalided home.
p10a & b
Dateline Albert Docks, April 25.
The Sicilian sailed to-day with 11 officers, 507 men and 297
horses. The officers listed were:
2/West Surrey
Regt Maj.Dawson
Royal Scottish
Fusiliers Capt. Shortt
R.A. Capt.
Robertson and some men
2/South
Staffordshire Regt. Lt. Ritchie
Northumberland
Fusiliers 2nd Lt. Henderson Wood and 200 men
2/Welsh
Regt. 2nd Lt. Davies and 100 men
2/North
Staffordshire Regt. 2nd Lt. Gifford Carnegy and 100 men
Civil
Surgeons Miller, Thomas and Dright
Civil Vet. Surgeon
Pollard
A.S.C. 100 men
R.A.M.C. some men
Here is a column
on horse loss figures to date in shipping.
Averages 5.49% but varies within wide limits.
Dateline Albert
Docks, April 25. The Austral
arrived this morning with 200 sick and wounded, 11 were officers.
London Times .
27/04/00 (Friday)
p3c Dateline
Hobart, April 26. 100 Tasmanians have
sailed in the Manhattan for South Africa .
The Manhattan will call at Adelaide and Fremantle for contingents from
those places.
Dateline ,
Melbourne, April 26. The Victorian
contingent will sail for South Africa in the transport Victorian.
The Sunda left
Cape Town for London via St. Vincent on
Wednesday. The Formosa left Lorenzo
Marques for Beira on Wednesday. The
Umbria, from Algoa Bay , has arrived at East London . The Bavarian, for St.
Helena, the Urmston Grange, for Algoa Bay , and the Tagus for Natal,
have left Table Bay , and the Algeria, from Natal, arrived here Wednesday. The Uganda, from East London , has arrived
at Natal. The Dilwara, from Southampton
, and the Ottoman, from Table Bay and Algoa Bay , have arrived at St. Vincent .
p5b & c
Dateline Albert Docks , April 26.
Two ships sailed from here today, the Englishman and the Montfort, carrying a total of 27 officers, 895 men and
634 horses. The Englishman carries the
following:
R.A. Capt.
W.P. Napier, 2nd Lt. Vickey and
116 men.
R.E. Capt.
D.H. Ridout, 2nd Lt. P.G. Hogg
and 31 men.
2/South
Lancashire Regt. Capt. G.C. Ashworth
Border Regt. Capt.
J. Norman
1/South
Lancashire Regt. 2nd Lts. A.
Davidson, E.W. Milman, W.V. Hume and 98 men.
Hampshire
Regt. 2nd Lts. N.E. Baxter, F.C. Moore, J.O. Hooker, C.R.
Seymour, E.P. Blencowe and 166 men.
Civil
Surgeons Sutherland, Aldred Goodwin.
Civil Vet. Surgeon
Symes.
A RAMC
detachment.
The Montfort
carries the following:
1/South
Staffordshire Regt. Capt. Sears
4/Durham
L.I. Capt. Shaw
R.A. 2nd Lts.
Wadlow, Budgeon, and 111 men.
3/Worcester
Regt. 2nd Lt. Gibbs and 100 men
2/East Kent
Regt. 2nd Lts. Lynch, Norman, and 100 men.
82 men P.O.
Corps.
70 men A.S.C.
14 men R.E.
Mention here of (Col.c)Comptons Horse - Alwyne Compton
London Times , 28/04/00 (Saturday)
p7b The Kildonan
Castle left Cape Town on Thursday evening for Southampton with invalids. The
Dilwara, for South Africa , has left St.
Vincent .
p14a & b The
Britannic has left Cape Town for England with the following sick and wounded:
2/Life Guards Capt. R.T. Ellison,
Lt. C.
Champion-de-Crispigny.
Royal Scots
Greys 2nd Lt. W.
Long
R.G.A. 2nd Lt.
H.C. Reeves
1/Suffolk
Regt. 2nd Lt. Smith
1/Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers 2nd Lt. C.
Ridings
1/ Loyal North
Lancashire Regt. Lt. F.J. Bowen
2/Royal Irish
Fusiliers Lt. W.
Haire-Foster
4/Royal
Lancashire Regt. 2nd Lt. J.T. Lodwick
Sick 160 men
Wounded 36 men
The Lismore
Castle left for England on April 21 with the following:
Col. Brodie, Medical Staff Corps, in charge.
R.N. Midshipmen Bolder and Hodson
R.F.A. Lt.
Col. J.A. Coxhead, Lt. T.M. Archdale
2/West Surrey
Regt. Capt. H.F. Warden
2/Royal Lancaster
Regt. Maj. C.G. Barton
2/Royal
Fusiliers 2nd Lt. E.C.Packe
1/Welsh
Fusiliers 2nd Lt. A.R.H. Rycroft
1/Border
Regt. Lt. C.L. Macnab
1/Durham
L.I. Capt. O.B. Harter
1/Royal Inniskilling
Fusiliers Lt. Bell
A.S.C. Capt.
J.A.R. Purvis
Medical Staff
Corps Maj. Culling, Capt. Stadden,
Lt. Selby
Imp. L.H.
Lt. Shore
Sick 93 men
Wounded 47
The Cheshire
sailed from East Langton Dock, Liverpool for South Africa yesterday and is
scheduled to stop at Queenstown. Those
listed are:
South Wales
Borderers 2nd Lts. Morgan-Owen,
Moffatt, and 100 men
Royal Lancaster
Regt. Capt. Paton
2/Bedfordshire
Regt. Capt. Maguire and 100 men
2/East Yorkshire
Regt. Capt. McClintock and 100 men
RAMC small detachment
Rifle
Brigade Capts. Steward, Lowndes
Kings Royal
Rifles Capt. Clark
Civil
Surgeon J.H. Willitt
The Hellopes
embarked 150 horses at Liverpool. She
will call at Southampton for more horses before sailing for the Cape. On board were Vet. Surgeon Anderson and 2 shoeing smiths.
London Times 30/04/00 (Monday)
p7d The Ravenshoe,
from London, the Montcalm, from Liverpool and the Masconomo, from St. John, N.S. have arrived at Table Bay by 28
April. The Kelvingrove, from Table Bay
, arrived at East London , April 26.
p9a & b
Dateline Tilbury, April 28. The
Orotavia sailed from here this morning with 39 officers and 1,354 men ( and
several stowaways). The officers listed
were:
Royal Dublin
Fusiliers Maj. G.A. Shadforth, 2nd Lt. E.
St. G. Smith
2/Royal Irish
Rifles Maj. L.R. Molyneux-Steel, Capts.
W. Garston, McCannon, 2nd
Lts. R. Stewart, F. Bristow.
R.A. Capt. C.C. Robertson, 2nd Lts. C.A.H. Campbell, R.E. Harman
3/Yorkshire 2nd Lts.
W.E. Franlish, T. Whalley,
H. Hawley
3/West
Riding 2nd Lts. A.C. Adams, A.W. Newton
3/Royal
Lancashire Lt. Tayner
6/Royal
Warwickshire 2nd Lts. Hill, Sullivan, Emerson, Shelley
3/Norfolk 2nd Lt.
Miller
3/Royal
Scots 2nd Lt. Trueman
East Kent Capt.
the Earl of Kingston
6/Middlesex Capt.
Mainwaring
3/Royal West
Surrey 2nd Lt. J.N. Versturine
R.A.M.C. Maj.
E.A. Burnside
Civil
Surgeons E.A. Wraith, N.B. Harman,
W.J. Harding, A. Pearling
Chaplains The Revs.
A.W.B. Watson, A. Boddington,
W. Forrest, F.M. Hayward, R.M.L. Lee,
& Turpin
The Cheshire
arrived at Queenstown on Saturday afternoon from Liverpool, having on board
drafts numbering 463 officers and men.
Yesterday she embarked drafts of the following:
1/West Riding
Regt.
2/Wiltshire
1/East Lancashire
1/K.O.S.B.
1/York and
Lancaster, 1/Oxford L.I.
Royal Munster
Fusiliers
For a total of 18
officers and 984 men.
The Dunvegan
Castle, which left Southampton on Saturday, took out 4 - 6 in. howitzer siege train guns and 6,000 rounds
of lyddite shell for South Africa .
London Times , 01/05/00 (Tuesday)
p5b Dateline
Beira, April 23(? 28) The Columbian,
with the Canadian 12-pounder battery, has arrived. The officers of the Queensland Contingent gave a luncheon on
board the Duke of Portland .
The Devon arrived
at Cape Town on Saturday. The
Columbian, from Table Bay , arrived at Natal April 29. The Ulstermore has arrived at Las Palmas .
Dateline Cape
Town, April 30. The Nile has arrived at
Cape Town from Natal with 25 officers and 252 men invalided home. The Aurania leaves Cape Town to-day with 400
sick and wounded.
Dateline
Brisbane, April 30. Owing to the extent
of the damage to the Manchester Port on April 28, the departure of the
contingent will be delayed for about 10 days.
p7a Dateline
Albert Docks , April 30. The Assaye
arrived this morning with 19 officers and 296 men and a few others. The officers named were:
R.A. Maj.
Curtis
5/D.G. Capt.
Derbyshire
East Surrey Lts.
Tyler, Hersford, Alexander
6/D.G. Lt.
Wheeler
1/Yorkshire Lt.
Tomlin
1/West
Riding Lt. Carmichael
F.R.H. Lt.
Wauchope
I.Y. Lt.
Piper
Seaforth
Highlanders Lt. Wilson
R.O.D. Col.
Law
D.C.L.I. Maj.
Teale
2/Northampton Capt. Freeland
Canadian Capt.
Peltier
A.P. Depot Capt.
Magee
Surgeon Warwick,
Assistant Surgeon Gillespie and Staff Sergeant-Major Gully.
London Times , 02/05/00 (Wednesday)
p5b Dateline
St. Helena, May 1. The Bavarian arrived here to-day with
1,099 Boer prisoners.
Dateline
Melbourne, May 1. The Bushmen
embarked for South Africa to-day in the Victorian. The South Australian contingent sailed from Adelaide on board the
Manhattan.
The Ulstermore,
for Table Bay , has left Las Palmas , April 30. The British Princess arrived at Natal, May 1.
p6a The hospital
ship Nubia arrived at Southampton yesterday with the following listed:
Staff Col.
Beckett
19/Hussars Lts.
St. Quintin, Fanshawe
R.F.A. Maj.
Fowle, Lt. Kirke, 2nd Lt. Goff.
2/Lancaster
Regt. Capt. Palmes
2/Royal
Fusiliers Lt. Macartney
2/Devonshire
Regt. Capt. Masterson
2/Scottish
Rifles Capt. R.
Wanless OGowan
1/Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers Maj. Davidson, Capt. Foot, Lt. Pott
2/East Surrey
Regt. Col. Harris, Lt. Poreh
2/Middlesex
Regt. Maj. Scott-Moncrieff
K.R.R.C. Maj.
Kays, Lt. Wyndham
1/Royal Irish
Fusiliers Maj. Davison
2/Rifle
Brigade Capt. Paley
1/Dublin
Fusiliers Lt. McLeod
Natal Mounted
Rifles Lt. Stiebel
Imp. Light Horse. Lt. Hare
R.A.M.C. Maj.
Kerin, Lts. Martin, Sloan
The Monteagle
also landed a number of wounded at Southampton yesterday. (no names)
p12a LG for May
1. Note Irish Guards, Capt. &
Bt. Major C.F.S. Vandeleur, D.S.O. from
Scots Guards and also to special service in South Africa .
London Times 03/05/00 (Thursday)
p5c Dateline
Beira, April 28. The Monowal arrived
here on Thursday with 242 officers and men of the New Zealand Mounted Infantry.
p10f Note here on
Bt. Maj. Vandeleur.
London Times , 04/05/00 (Friday)
p5d The Persia
arrived at Cape Town on Wednesday. The
Goth and the Canada arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The Woolloomooloo arrived at Cape Town from London May 3. The formosa left Lorenzo Marques May 2 for
Beira. The Sicilian, London for Table
Bay is at Las Palmas , May 2, and will be repaired after striking the dock
there. The Montfort and the Orotava,
London for Table Bay, have arrived at Las Palmas .
Dateline Buenos
Ayres, May 3. The Angola sails
to-night for Cape Town with 950 horses.
p6a & b The
Kildonan Castle left Cape Town April 25 for England with the following sick and
wounded listed:
Maj. Adye, Staff, in charge.
R.A. Staff Capt.
Russell
2/ Grenadier
Guards Capt. Tryon
1/Scots
Guards Capt. Bell
2/Royal Lancaster Regt. 2nd Lt.
Hausburg
1/Yorkshire
Regt. Capt. Pearson
2/Hampshire
Regt. Lt. French
1/Oxfordshire
L.I. 2nd Lt. Fuller
1/Loyal North
Lancashire Regt. 2nd Lt. Case
2/Wiltshire
Regt. 2nd Lt. Thornton
1/Highland Light
Inf. 2nd Lt. Martin
A.S.C. Capt.
Studdart
4/Royal Lancaster
Regt. Capt. Churchill
Imperial Light
Horse Lt. Spencer
F.A. Lt.
Stobart
1/C.G. Capt.
Fielding ( Feilding ), Lt.
Matheson
2/C.G. Maj.
Monck
1/Suffolk Regt.
2nd Lt. Butler
1/West Riding
Regt. 2nd Lt. Wilson
2/Royal
Highlanders Lt. Harvey
1/Essex
Regt. 2nd Lt. Woolhouse
2/Shropshire
L.I. Lt. Atchinson
1/Manchester
Regt. Capt. Gorges
2/Gordon
Highlanders Lt. Forbes
Canadian
Inf. Lt. Wilkie
3/North
Staffordshire Regt. Lt. Prior
Sick laying down,
45; sick convalescent, 206; wounded laying down, 29; wounded convalescent, 21.
For duty on
voyage Civil Surgeon Phillips.
The Braemar
Castle left Cape Town for England April 27 with the following listed:
Capt. Taylor, Yorkshire L.I., in charge.
9/Lancers Lt.
Kincaid Smith
R.E. Lt.
Sandkey
1/Suffolk
Regt. Lt. Allen
R.A.M.C. Lt.
Scarlett, Civil Surgeon Barnes
16/Lancers Lt.
Neave
2/Norfolk
Regt. Capt. Peebles
2/Yorkshire
L.I. 2nd Lt. Walker
Sick and wounded
men Sick laying down, 79; sick
convalescent, 141; wounded laying down, 25; wounded convalescent, 3. From Natal
sick laying down, 5; sick convalescent, 40; wounded convalescent, 3.
The American
hospital ship Maine left Southampton yesterday for Durban, where she will
embark her full complement of invalids and return at once to England. She is outfitted for 170 cot
accommodations. The medical staff is
Maj. James Meek, R.A.M.C., 4 American
Surgeons, 3 sergeants, R.A.M.C., 7 male
nurses, 11 men St. John Ambulance
Brigade, and 14 orderlies.
p7f Note Mention of Bt. Maj. Vandeleur, I.G.
London Times 05/05/00 (Saturday) No military shipping
mentioned.
London Times , 07/05/00 (Monday)
p7e The Algeria,
from Algoa Bay , arrived at Natal May 5.
The Englishman has arrived at St.
Vincent . The Sicilian is
undergoing repairs at Las Palmas . The
Orotava and Montfort were at Las Palmas , May 4.
p12b The Nile,
left for England May 1, with the following sick and wounded named:
Lt.-Col. Mapleton, RAMC, in charge.
Royal F.A. Lt.-Col.
Montgomery
2/Royal West
Surrey Regt. Lt. McNamara
2/Royal Scots
Fusiliers Capt. Hull
2/Royal Dublin
Fusiliers Capt. Higginson
ASC Maj.
Ludlow
1/Durham
L.I. Lt. & Qm. Liebrecht
Chaplain Rev.
Pennington
RGA Capt.
Fitzgibbon
1/Leicestershire
Regt. Capt. Cox
1/KRRC Lts.
Jelf, Sterling, 2nd Lt.
Dalyrymple
RAMC Maj.
Reilly
Middlesex
Regt. Lt. & Qm. Piens
Civil Vet. Surgeon
Mr. Sharpe
Men sick
convalescent, 199; men wounded convalescent, 52.
The Oreana, with
178 invalids, arrived at Southampton on Saturday morning. The following were named:
1/Devon
Regt. Lt.-Col. Park
RFA Lt.-Col.
Blewitt, Maj. Walker, Capt. Douglas
5/DG Capt. Holden
1/Leicestershire
Regt. Capt. Drew
KRRC Capt.
Beaumont
2/Royal
Fusiliers Capt. Hill.
Of the total, all
but 13 were convalescent. Five deaths
took place during the voyage. they were:
2/Royal Dublin
Fusiliers Lt. T.B. Ely
1/Leincestershire
Regt. Pte. Durrands
2/Somerset
L.I. Pte. W. Stanton
19/Hussars Pte.
E. Reilly
1/Devonshire
Regt. Pte. Mitchell
London Times 08/05/00 (Tuesday)
p5c The Maplemore
arrived at Table Bay yesterday. The
Roslin Castle and the City of Vienna have arrived at East London . The Gymeric, from Otago, arrived at Natal,
May 5, and left May 6 for Beira with a detachment of New Zealanders.
London Times , 09/05/00 (Wednesday)
p7d The Columbian
arrived at Table Bay May 8 from Natal.
The Maori, from New Zealand, arrived at Beira May 8 and later left for
London.
Dateline Perth,
May 8. The Manhattan with some of the
West Australian, Tasmanian and South Australian contingents of the Imperial
Bushmen, sailed from here to-night.
Note here a
Capt. Pereira at Wei-Hai-Wei and
wounded, May 7.
p13a & b The
Pindari left Southampton yesterday for South Africa with 14 officers, 400 men
and 377 horses. The officers listed
were:
Gordon
Highlanders Capt. Greenhill-Gardyne
2/Cheshire
Regt. 2nd Lts. Ramsay, F.
Berkeley, and E.A. Jackson
1/Highland
L.I. 2nd Lt. Craigie-Halkett
3/South Waled
Borderers 2nd Lt. Crosleigh
3/Highland
L.I. Capt. Anderson
1/Royal
Dragoons 2nd Lts. Sir Ralph Gore, the Hon. W.C.W. Egerton, H. Ripley, and H. Lambert.
Acting
Chaplain The Rev. H.
Molesworth
Civil
Surgeon J. Thomson
Civil Vet. Surgeon
E.E. Wells.
2nd Lt.
Allen, 1/Suffolk Regt, and 2nd Lt.
Thornton, 2/Wiltshire Regt., also sailed for home in the Kildonan Castle
on April 25. 2nd Lt. Butler, 1/Suffolk Regt. also saild for home in the Braemar Castle on
April 27.
The Cymrie left
Cape Town on April 18 and arrived at Southampton yesterday with 13 officers and
220 men. 2 deaths during the voyage,
Dr. Biles and Sergeant Taylor of the
I.Y.
The officers
listed were:
1/Essex
Regt. Lt.-Col. Tudway
13/Hussars Lt.
Spencer
RFA Capt.
Erlice (?)
1/Welsh
Regt. Lt. F.A. Jones
1/Argyll &
Southerland Highlanders Capt. Kirk, Lts.
Thorpe and Macdonald
3/Norfolk
Regt. Maj. Wellesley, Capt. Trevor
6/Lancashire
Fusiliers Capt. Ezra
Cape Times Weekly Edition
09/05/00
p1 Dateline
Mafeking, Apr. 14. Here a short account
of Plumers cattle running attempt.
Supp. Picture here
of officers of S.R.V. No names.
London Times , 10/05/00 (Thursday)
p7c The Narrung
arrived at Cape Town May 8 and later sailed for Port Elizabeth. The Galeka arrived at Beira on May 4. The Waimate, from New Zealand arrived at
Beira April 28. The Formosa arrived at
Lorenzo Marques and sailed for Beira May 8.
The Pavonia left Cape Town on Tuesday with invalids for Southampton
. The Persia arrived at Natal on May 7,
and the City if Vienna on May 9.
p12a The Mahratta
left Southampton yesterday afternoon with the following:
1/Hampshire
Regt. Capt. Hicks (in command)
1/Gloucestershire
Regt. Lts. Menzies and Johnson and 200 men for St. Helena as guards over Boer prisoners.
Liverpool
Regt. Capt. Hudson.
Balloon Repairing
Factory 2nd Lt. E.M.S. Charles and 29 men.
R.E. Lt.
Savage, 2 warrant officers and 40 men.
16/Lancers 2nd Lts.
Adams, Gilliat, Bellville, and Martyn.
Chaplains Mr.
Clifford and Dr. Fraser.
Civil
Surgeon Mr. D.J. Pierson
Civil Vet. Surgeon
Mr. G.N. Waugh
60 man cavalry
draft
299 horses.
London Times . 11/05/00
(Friday)
p5c The Dilwara
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Induna, from Buenos Ayres, with 950 horses, left Table Bay May 9 for Algoa
Bay. The Cheshire arrived at Las Palmas
May 4 and left for Table Bay.
p10c The Aurania
left for England May 2 with sick and wounded.
Listed are:
Maj. Llewellyn, 4/Somersetshire L.I., in charge
RFA 2nd Lt.
Cameron
RE Lt.
Forster
KOSB Capt.
Thellusson
2/Hampshire
Regt. Capt. Shaw
1/Welsh
Regt. 2nd Lt. Lloyd
1/KRRC Capt.
Northley
2/Royal Irish
Rifles Lt. Stevens
2/Gordon
Highlanders 2nd Lt. Arbuthnot Leslie
Remount
Dept. Maj. ONeal
I.Y. Lts.
Mitchell and Whitaker
3/East Lancashire
Regt. Capt. Trevor-Battye
Rifle
Brigade Qm. Mr. Stone
RAMC Qm.
Mr. Lines
Men sick, laying
down - 121; men sick convalescent - 201; men wounded laying down - 54; men
wounded convalescent - 38.
Also from
Natal sick convalescent- 115; wounded
convalescent - 38.
For duty on
voyage Civil Surgeon Edwards and
Chaplain Rev. Mr. Daintree.
The Servia, with
invalids from South Africa arrived at Southampton yesterday morning with the
following named:
Lt.-Col. W.
Tylden RFA, in charge
RHA Capt. W. Gillman
1/Leicester
Regt. Lt. B. de W. Weldon
1/Oxfordshire
Regt. Capt. H.L. Ruck-Keene
2/Seaforth
Highlanders Capt. J.P. Grant
2/Kings
Shropshire L.I. Lt. H.M. Smith
The Servia
brought 150 men.
London Times 12/05/00 (Saturday)
p7e Dateline East
London, May 11. The Craigellachie,
with Government stores, has been wrecked off Port Alfred. The Capt.
and crew were rescued by the Ifafa and are on the way to Port Natal.
p9d Dateline
Albert Docks , May 11. The Assaye sailed this afternoon with 97
officers and 1,265 men. Among others,
she carries 50 Canadians of Strathconas Horse, who arrived at Liverpool
yesterday afternoon in the steamship Vancouver.
The Mahratta
arrived at Queenstown from Southampton yesterday evening with 12 officers, 131
men and 299 remounts. She embarked, at
Queenstown, 3 officers and 200 men .
Officers listed were: Lts. Sir
J. Campbell and Sir G. Prescott of the Life Guards. Capt.
Hicks, Hampshire Regt. is in
command.
London Times , 14/05/00 (Monday)
p7d The Antillian
left Table Bay May 12 for Natal, The Carinthia left New Orleans May 11 with
1,450 mules for Cape Town .
p9b The Cephalonia
left for England May 4 with Maj.
Vaughan Lee, Royal Horse Guards in charge. The following sick and wounded officers were listed:
RFA Capt.
Lewis
1/Northumberland
Fusiliers Lt. Armstrong
1/Yorkshire
Regt. 2nd Lt. Pearson
2/Duke of
Cornwalls L.I. Capt. Mander
Royal Irish
Fusiliers Lt. Stoney
RAMC Capt.
Lewis
I.Y. Maj.
Balfour
6/Lancashire
Fusiliers Capt. Gildea
1/Royal
Scots Lt. Smith
2/Royal
Fusiliers 2nd Lt. Rayner
2/East Lancashire
Regt. Lt. Rutter
2/North
Staffordshire Regt. Capt. Saunders
2/Rifle
Brigade 2nd Lt. Wood
AOC Maj.
Smyth
3/KOSB Capt.
Greig
Roberts
Horse Lt. Barley
Sick laying down,
102; Sick convalescent, 259; wounded laying down, 26; wounded convalescent,
21. From Natal, sick laying down 4;
sick convalescent, 6.
For duty on
voyage Civil Surgeon Hunter
London Times , 15/05/00 (Tuesday)
p6b The Kildonan
Castle, with near 300 invalids from South Africa arrived at Southampton
yesterday afternoon. The following were
listed:
Maj. Adye, Staff, in charge.
R.A. Staff Capt.
Russell
3/ Grenadier
Guards Capt. Tryon
1/Scots
Guards Capt. Bell
2/Royal Lancaster
Regt. 2nd Lt. Hausburg
1/Yorkshire
Regt. Capt. Pearson
2/Hampshire
Regt. Lt. French
1/Oxfordshire
L.I. 2nd Lt. Fuller
1/Loyal North
Lancashire Regt. 2nd Lt. Case
2/Wiltshire
Regt. 2nd Lt. Thornton
1/Highland Light
Inf. 2nd Lt. Martin
A.S.C. Capt.
Studdart
4/Royal Lancaster
Regt. Capt. Churchill
Imperial Light
Horse Lt. Spencer
F.A. Lt.
Stobart
1/C.G. Capt.
Fielding ( Feilding ), Lt.
Matheson
2/C.G. Maj.
Monck
1/Suffolk Regt.
2nd Lt. Butler
1/West Riding
Regt. 2nd Lt. Wilson
2/Royal
Highlanders Lt. Harvey
1/Essex
Regt. 2nd Lt. Woolhouse
2/Shropshire
L.I. Lt. Atchinson
1/Manchester
Regt. Capt. Gorges
2/Gordon
Highlanders Lt. Forbes
Canadian Inf. Lt. Wilkie
3/North
Staffordshire Regt. Lt. Prior
For duty on
voyage Civil Surgeon Phillips.
London Times , 16/05/00 (Wednesday)
p7c Dateline
Beira, May 9. The Gymeric has arrived
here. She lost 22 horses on the voyage.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
16/05/00 Nothing Noted
London Times , 17/05/00 (Thursday)
p5b Dateline
Beira, May 4. The Galeka arrived here
yesterday with 1,100 men, including I.Y. Sharpshooters under Col. Parke and Col. brought by the Leitrim.
Dateline Beira,
May 5. 700 New Zealand troops arrived
in the transports Wannatta(? Manhattan),
Maori, and Monowai.
Dateline Beira,
May 10. The Hurona has arrived here
with horses from New Orleans and the Jeanara with cattle from Buenos
Ayres. 60% of the cattle died on the
voyage. The Canadian Artillery, with a
battery of 15-pounders, has arrived.
p5d The Ulstermore
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Celtic Princess, from London, arrived at Table Bay, May 15. The hospital ship Princess of Wales, from
Southampton arrived at Table Bay, May 11.
The Dilwara arrived at Durban yesterday. The Mahratta has arrived at Las Palmas . The Manila, for Beira, left Table Bay
yesterday.
p10c & d The
Monteagle left Southampton yesterday with 20 officers, 462 men, and 304
horses. The troops consist of 209 men
of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, 130 men of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and some small drafts.
The hospital ship
Oceana left yesterday for South Africa .
The Tagus left
Cape Town for England on May 10 with invalids, Maj. Scott, Leicester Regt. in
charge. Listed were:
2/South Wales Borderers Capt.
Jones
2/Royal
Highlanders 2nd Lt. Gordon
Kimberley Mounted
Corps Lt. Richards
3/South Wales
Borderers Lt. Wheen (?Gwynne)
Sick
convalescent 75
From Natal
5/Lancers Capt.
Parker
18/Hussars Maj.
Marling
19/Hussars Lt.
Binny
Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers Lt. Manley and 2nd Lt. Steward
2/Dorchester
Regt. Lt. Godman
1/Manchester
Regt. Lt. Deakin
South Africa
Light Horse Lt. Robinson
Sick convalescent 167; Sick laying down
6; Wounded convalescent 60
For duty on
voyage Civil Surgeon Cooke and
Rev. Mr. Fagan.
London Times , 18/05/00 (Friday)
p5d The Orotava
has arrived at Table Bay . The Pindari
has passed St. Vincent . The Simla left Natal yesterday woth sick and
wounded for England.
Dateline Cape
Town , May 17. The Canada sails
to-day for England with wounded officers and men.Colonel and Mrs. Neeld are also on board.
p11a & b
Dateline Albert Docks , May 17.
The Cavour saild this afternoon with 12 officers, 292 men and 215
horses. The troops were drafts of the
R.A., Royal Scots, 2/Yorkshire L.I. and 3/Devonshire Regts. The officers listed were:
Royal Scots Capt.
H.E.P. Nash, commanding
14th Hussars Capt.
W. Prevost
R.F.A. 2nd Lts.
P.W.H. Bourchier, V. Assex, O.F.
Stanley and Bedwell.
8th Hussars 2nd
Lt. E.G. Wood
2/Yorkshire
L.I. 2nd Lt. J.C.H. Ackroyd
M.S. Corps Surgeon Capt. Pollock
Civil Vet. Surgeon
J.W. Balfour
Chaplain The Rev.
S.P.H. Statham
The Manchester
Merchant will sail from Tilbury with drafts and remounts to-morrow.
The Pavonia left Cape Town for England May 8, with
Lt.-Col. Pickwoad, R.A., in
charge. Listed were the following sick
and wounded:
10th Hussars Capt.
Lord Gorge Scott
2/Somersetshire
L.I. Capt. Chandler
Royal Irish
Regt. Lt. Mansergh
RAMC Lt.
Safford
3/South
Lancashire Regt. Capt. Vaughan
1/Northumberland
Fusiliers Maj. James
2/Berkshire
Regt. Lt. Bathurst
1/Leinster
Regt. Capt. Harvest
I.Y. Lts.
Middleman and Broadbent
Sick laying down,
82; sick convalescent, 168; wounded laying down, 14; wounded convalescent, 5.
For duty on the
voyage Lt. Carlyon, RAMC, and Rev.
Canon Orford.
The Braemar
Castle, with sick and wounded from South Africa, arrived at Plymouth yesterday afternoon. The following were listed:
Capt. Taylor, Yorkshire L.I., in charge.
9/Lancers Lt.
Kincaid Smith
R.E. Lt.
Sankey
1/Suffolk
Regt. Lt. Allen
R.A.M.C. Lt.
Scarlett, Civil Surgeon Barnes
16/Lancers Lt.
Neave
2/Norfolk
Regt. Capt. Peebles
2/Yorkshire
L.I. 2nd Lt. Walker
There were 310
men beside the officers listed. About
30 of the men were from the Canadian Contingent
London Times 19/05/00 (Saturday)
p7c The Cheshire
arrived at Cape Town yesterday. The
Umbria, from Lorenzo Marques, arrived at Natal yesterday. The Manchester Port, with the Queensland
Bushmens Contingent, left Brisbane
yesterday for South Africa .
Dateline Buenos
Ayres, May 18. The Surrey, with 960
horses, sails tomorrow. The Beacon
Grange, with 640 horses, sails Sunday for Cape Town .
p12c & d
Dateline Tilbury, May 18. The
Manchester Mrechant sailed this morning with 15 officers, 183 men ans 368
horses. She will call at Gibralter to
pick up additional troops. The officers
listed were:
3/Derbyshire
Regt. Capt. G.H.B. Fletcher
3/Yorkshire
Regt. Capt. R.C. Aspinall
2/Seaforth
Highlanders 2nd Lt. R.
Laing
13th Hussars 2nd Lts.
Gubbins and Lambert
1/Suffolk
Regt. 2nd Lt. Taylor
3/Bedford
Regt. Capt. Dayrell
2/Cameron
Highlanders 2nd Lts. Smith, McConaghey, and Erskine(for
Gibralter).
Army Pay
Dept. Capt. J,G,T Bruce
R.F.A. 2nd Lt.
L. S. Biddulph
Reserve of
Officers Maj. Bright-Smith
Civil
Surgeon J.C. Barrett
Civil Vet. Surgeon
Crawford
Major W.H.
Rycroft, 11th Hussars and Capt.
Thompson, Seaforth Highlanders will join the ship at Gibralter.
p14d Note. London Gazette, Friday, May 18. "Lieut.-Col. J.F. Burn-Murdoch, 1st Dragoons, to be a
Brigadier-General on the Staff to command the 1st Cavalry Brigade, Natal, Field
Force, South Africa , with the local rank of Brigadier-General whilst so
employed.
London Times 21/05/00 (Monday)
p8a Dateline New
York, May 19. The Corinthia, from New
Orleans for Cape Town with 1,450 miles, ran ashore at Point Gravois, on the
south coast of Hayti. The Valencia has
gone to Kingston for aid.
From St. Vincent, May 20. The Pinemore, Table Bay for London, has put back to St. Vincent for repair of two blades of
propeller broken. Expect 3 days delay.
p12f The American
left for England May 12 with Lt.-Col.
McDonnell, RFA, in charge and the following listed sick and wounded:
3rd Hussars Lt.
Madden
9th Lancers Lt.
Brooke
18th Hussars Lt.
Cawston
RHA - Capt.
Ruck-Keene
2/Royal
Warwickshire Regt. Lt. Harvey
2/Norfolk
Regt. 2nd Lt. Lyon
2/Bedfordshire
Regt. Lt. Wetherall
2/Northamptonshire Regt. Lt.
Skinner
I.Y. Maj.
Martindale Vale, & Lt.
Peacock
RAMC Qm.
Mr. Dear
Sick laying down,
38; sick convalescent, 225; wounded
laying down, 26; wounded convalescent, 19 .
From Natal Sick laying down,
3; sick convalescent, 4.
For duty on
voyage Civil Surgeons Hutchins and
Murray; Chaplain, Rev. Letcher; Qm
Mr. Ryder, 2/Worcestershire Regt.;
Qm. Mr. Byrne, 4/Durham L.I.
The Orient left
for England May 15 with Capt. Packman,
2/East Surrey Regt., in charge , and the following sick and wounded:
RHA Capt.
Monkhouse
2/West Yorkshire
Regt. 2nd Lt. Ross
1/York &
Lancaster Regt. Lt. Gardner
ASC Capt.
Black
I.Y. Lt.
Rayner
Victoria
Mtd. Rifles Capt. Jenkins
RFA Capt.
Becke & Lt. Wheeler
1/Gloucestershire
Regt. Lt. Ruck
2/Dublin
Fusiliers Lt. Britton
AOC Capt.
Tracey
4/Royal Lancaster
Regt. 2nd Lt. Simmons Lynn
From Natal Sick lying down, 7; sick convalescent,
196; wounded lying down, 2; wounded convalescent, 11.
For duty on
voyage Civil Surgeon Blakiston
p13a The hospital
ship Lismore Castle docked at Royal Albert Docks late yesterday afternoon,
having on board 16 officers and 200 men, invalids, in charge of Col. Brodie, Medical Staff Corps. She left Durban
April 18. Officers listed were:
Royal Navy Midshipmen Bolder and Hodson
RFA Lt.-Col.
J.A. Coxhead and Lt. T.M.
Archdale.
2/West Surrey Regt. Capt.
H.F. Warden
2/Royal Lancaster
Regt. Maj. C.G. Barton
2/Royal
Fusiliers 2nd Lt. E.C.Packe
1/Welsh
Fusiliers 2nd Lt. A.R.H. Rycroft
1/Border
Regt. Lt. C.L. Macnab
1/Durham
L.I. Capt. O.B. Harter
1/Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers Lt. Bell
A.S.C. Capt.
J.A.R. Purvis
Medical Staff
Corps Maj. Culling, Capt. Stadden,
Lt. Selby
Imp. L.H.
Lt. Shore
London Times 22/05/00 (Tuesday)
p7c The Montfort
arrived at ct, May 19. The Hortensius,
from Southampton , arrived at Table Bay on Sunday and left for Algoa Bay . The Cheshire left Table Bay on Saturday for
Durban. The hospital ship Simla left
Table Bay yesterday for Southampton .
The Orcana, Southampton for Table Bay , has arrived at Las Palmas .
Dateline New
York, May 21. Her Majestys
cruiser Prosperpine has gone to the assistance of the mule transport Carinthia,
stranded on the coast of Hayti on the night of May 15.
p13b & c
Dateline Albert Docks , May 21.
The Ottoman sailed with 6 officers, 101 men and 415 horses. The officers named were:
ASC
Capt. E.M.J. Munns, Lt. & Qm
W.F. Cox
10th Hussars 2nd Lts.
W.A.H. Bass and G.C.H. Potter
Civil
Surgeon Mr. A.C. McLean
Civil Vet. Surgeon
Mr. A.C. Fountain
The Maori King
sails from here tomorrow.
p13e The Nile
arrived at Southampton yesterday morning bringing 16 officers and 251 invalids,
of whom 52 are wounded. Lt.-Col. Mapleton, RAMC., in charge.
Royal F.A.
Lt.-Col. Montgomery
2/Royal West
Surrey Regt. Lt. McNamara
2/Royal Scots
Fusiliers Capt. Hull
2/Royal Dublin
Fusiliers Capt. Higginson
ASC Maj.
Ludlow
1/Durham
L.I. Lt. & Qm. Liebrecht
Chaplain Rev.
Pennington
RGA Capt.
Fitzgibbon
1/Leicestershire
Regt. Capt. Cox
1/KRRC Lts.
Jelf, Sterling, 2nd Lt.
Dalyrymple
RAMC Maj.
Reilly
Middlesex
Regt. Lt. & Qm. Piens
Civil Vet. Surgeon
Mr. Sharpe
London Times 23/05/00 (Wednesday) No shipping information
this issue.
Cape Times Weekly Edition
23/05/00
p15 No Dateline .
" The Troops at Mariandellas camp are New South Wales men and South
Australians, under Lieutenant-Colonel Airey. At Bamboo Creek there is a large
camp, where the men wait entrainment on the broad gauge.
London Times 24/05/00 (Thursday)
p7e The Cheshire
has arrived at Natal and the Ranee at Algoa Bay . The Manchester Port left Sydney May 22 , with a detachment of the
Bushmens Corps, for Beira. The Manila
sailed from Lorenzo Marques for Beira yesterday.
Dateline New
York, May 23. A telegram from
Kingston, Jamaica, states that the Corinthia is fast on the rocky bottom and
cannot be floated. The mules on board
have been landed.
p9a & b The
Britannic left Southampton yesterday with 56 officers and 1,038 men for Cape
Town. The officers listed were:
Staff Col.
W.F. Cavaye, commanding
RHG Capt.
G.J. FitzGerald
5/DG 2nd Lt.
J. Norwood
GG Capt.
G.D. White, 2nd Lts. Lord H.C.
Seymour, C. Le D. Leslie-Melville, V. Vivian, and B.N. Brooke.
CG Bt.-Maj.
G. Fremantle, Lt. &
Adj. the Hon. G.A.C. Crichton, Lts.
E.T.H. Hanbury-Tracy, C.J.C. Grant, and H.A. Herbert-Stepney.
Durham L.I. Bt.- Lt.-Col. H.S. FitzGerald
Lancashire
Fusiliers Lt.-Col. Sir R.
Colleton, 2nd Lts. E. Barlow and R.S. Allen.
RAMC Maj.
M.L. Hearn
AOD Maj.
R.W.M. Jackson and Capt.
Bernard.
RE Capts.
T.A.H. Bigge, D.H.C. Colnaghi, Lts.
H.W. Gordon, R.A. Gillam, R.P.T. Hawkesley and R.F. Knox.
Royal Welsh
Fusiliers Capt. C.H.M. Doughty.
Royal West
Surrey Capt. C.
Parsons and 2nd Lt. Watson.
RFA Lt.
C.W. Scott.
Royal Lancaster
Regt. Lts. W.E.S. Woodgate, E. von
Broekdorff, and H.K. Clough.
Reserve of
Officers Lt. Cave-Brown-Cave
Bechuanaland
Rifles Lt. H.H. Cowie
Liverpool
Regt. 2nd Lt. W.J.P. England.
1/Devonshire
Regt. 2nd Lt. C.E. Edward Collins.
2/Northumberland
Fusiliers 2nd Lt. R.S.J. Willans.
1/A & S
Highlanders 2nd Lt. J.A.L. Campbell.
Royal West Kent
Regt. 2nd Lt. H.D. Belgrave.
Assistant Civil
Engineer Assistant-Surveyor T.H.
Webb.
Civil
Surgeons D. Harris and H. Dingle.
Post Office
Corps 2nd Lts. Moffatt and Woolley.
Acting Chaplains The Revs.
H.D. Burton, W.H. Turpin, W.T.R. Crookham, F.H. Powell, S. Rawlinson, and J.F. Sweetman.
Royal Navy
Reserve Lt. R. Graves.
Royal Navy Sub.
Lt. H. Boyle, Midshipman H.T. England, Naval Cadets R.N. Suter and
D. Stuart.
Dateline Albert
Docks , May 23. The Maori King is
scheduled to sail from here on the night tide with 500 horses for South Africa
.
The Aurania
arrived at Southampton on Tuesday evening with 610 patients.
Lt.-Col. E.H.
Llewellyn, 4/Somersetshire L.I., in charge
RFA 2nd Lt.
Cameron
RE Lt.
Forster
KOSB Capt.
Thellusson
2/Hampshire
Regt. Capt. Shaw
1/Welsh
Regt. 2nd Lt. Lloyd
1/KRRC Capt.
Northley
2/Royal Irish
Rifles Lt. Stevens
2/Gordon
Highlanders 2nd Lt. Arbuthnot Leslie
Remount
Dept. Maj. ONeal
I.Y. Lts.
Mitchell and Whitaker
3/East Lancashire
Regt. Capt. Trevor-Battye
Rifle
Brigade Qm. Mr. Stone
RAMC