42 H. Gough letters Jul–Sep 1901, Gou
43 H. Gough MS cit
44 OH IV, 217. TH V, 339–40
45 H. Gough MS cit
46 Botha–Reitz 18 Sep 1901, ptd SD III, 289–90. K’s des, SD III, 189–90
47 H. Gough MS cit
48 OH IV, 217–18
49 Botha–Reitz 18, 28 Sep 1901, SD III, 289–91
50 Botha–Reitz 28 Sep 1901, SD III, 290–1. SD III, 190. OH IV, 219–22. SJ 26 Sep 1901 (reporting Boers lost 550)
51 Botha MS cit
52 SJ 21 Sep 1901
53 SP I, 436
54 SP I, 430–7
55 SP I, 441–5
56 Smuts–De la Rey 26 Jan 1901, SP I, 499–503
57 For K’s public use of term ‘bag’ see B–K Sep 1901, Kit s cit Y/94
58 OH IV, 705
59 Smuts–Kosie 4 Jan 1901, SP I, 507
CHAPTER 41: BLOCKHOUSE OR BLOCKHEAD?
Head of chapter Rawlinson–R 28 Aug 1901, Bobs 61/22
1 K–R 24 Nov 1901, Bobs 33/61
2 K–B 13 Dec 1901, Kit 22/Y/111. K–R 13 Dec, Bobs 33/63
3 K–R 25 Oct 1901, Bobs 33/54
4 K–B 15 Oct 1901, CT no 683
5 K–B 27 Dec 1901, 23 Feb 1901, Kit 22/Y/116, 129
6 K–B 15 Nov 1901, Kit 22/Y/102. K–R 4 Oct 1901, Bobs 33/52
7 K–B 11, 15 Oct 1901, Kit 22/Y/94, 95
8 K–B 1 Nov 1901, CT no 704
9 K–R 5 Nov 1901, (Pte) Bobs 123 (note absence from CT)
10 R–K 8, 15 Nov 1901, Bobs 122, 170, 171
11 K–R 7 Nov 1901, CT no 715
12 See note 10
13 K–B 1 Nov 190i, Kit 22/Y/100
14 SJ 30 Oct 1901. SD III, 254–6. OH IV, 306–15
15 RE’s history of blockhouses, WO 108/295. OH IV, 568–76. SJ 8 Nov 1901
16 K–B 28 Oct, 22 Nov 1901, CT nos 694, 756. Intell Summary Bar 190 Oct–Dec 1901 and maps 194. SD III, 253–61, 349–57. OH IV, 705
17 Ibid esp CT no 756
18 K–B 5 Jan 1901, CT no 806. Dec 1901 Intell Summaries, Bar 190. Hamilton The Commander 100–1
19 Tape recorded interviews in 1970 with Ptes Bowers, Dart, Trooper Edingborough, Major Allott etc, PC
20 F. Maxwell 13 Sep 1901, Life 89. Cf Birdwood 117
21 F. Maxwell 4 Oct 1901, Life 90
22 F. Maxwell 3 May 1901, Life 85–6
23 H. Hamilton–Marker nd Mark 21
24 F. Maxwell 15, 24 Mar 1901, Life 80–2, 86–7
25 Rawlinson–R 25 Nov, 15 Dec 1901, Bobs 61. WO 108/104
26 Col D. Henderson–DMI 13 Jun 1902, WO 32/8112. Fuller Gentlemen’s Wars esp 194. Cf B. Parritt The Intelligencers 203–15
27 Rawlinson diary 4, 11, 3 Dec 1901, Rawl. Rawlinson–R 30 Nov–13 Dec 1901
28 Rawlinson diary MS cit so Dec 1901. Rawlinson–R 15 Dec MS cit Bobs 61
29 De Wet 340. De Wet–J. C. Smuts 8 Feb 1902, quoted OH IV, 379
30 K’s des of 8 Dec 1901, SD III, 353–6
31 De Wet 329–30
32 OH IV, 382–92, 405, 572, note blockhouse garrisons at 30 men to mile
33 SJ 25 Dec 1901. OH 392–3. TH V, 433–43
34 OH IV, 393–4
35 De Wet 343
36 Bowers tape recorded May 1970, PC
37 Ibid
38 K–B 27 Dec, 3 Jan 1902, Kit 22/Y/116, 117. K–B 21 Feb 1902, CT no 941
39 Dec 1901 Intell Summaries, Bar 190
40 SJ 5 Feb 1901. Rawlinson diary 5 Feb 1902, Rawl
41 SJ 4–6 Feb 1902. OH IV, 400–2
42 K–R 7 Feb 1902, Bobs 33/73
43 CT 384–5
44 K–R 14 Feb 1902, Bobs 33. K–B 14 Feb 1902, Kit 22/Y/126. OH IV, 402–4
45 De Wet 350–4
46 K–B 14 Feb 1902, Kit 22/Y/126
47 Pte Bowers tape recordings, PC
48 B–R 5 Mar 1902, CT no 980. K–B 11, 17 Mar 1902, CT nos 1004, 1022
49 Confid circular Apr 5902, WO 108/109. K–B 15 Aug 1901, CT no 617. K–B 9 Mar 1902, Kit 22/Y/131a
50 Intell Summary passim, Bar 190
51 Rawlinson diary 13 Dec 1901, MS cit. Rundle staff diary 25 Jan 1902 WO 32/8090
52 See K–B 6 Dec 1901, Kit 22/Y/09
53 Chief of Staff – all column COs 16 Dec 1901, WO 108/99. But see Fuller 245, 262
54 See Gen T. Smuts–Botha 2 Sep 1901, SD III, 312–13
55 Rawlinson diary 16–28 Feb 1902, Rawl. De Wet Three Years’ War (NB Van Merwe’s commando captured) 355–61. OH IV, 423–8
56 SJ 16–28 Feb 1902. Rawlinson diary MS cit. OH IV, 429
57 Rawlinson diary 4–11 Mar 1902, MS cit. OH IV, 475/8. SJ 4–11 Mar 1902
58 SJ 25 Feb 1902. OH IV, 409–54. TH V, 498–9
59 SJ 7 Mar 1902. OH IV, 416–20. TH V, 503–8
60 Frank Maxwell 16 Mar 1902, Life 94–5
61 Frank Maxwell 23 Mar 1902, Life 95–6. SJ 22 Mar 1902
CHAPTER 42: PEACE ‘BETRAYED’
Head of chapter Kipling Verse 108
1 M–Iwan–Muller 6 Feb 1902, Mil 36 (SA 41)
2 SJ II Apr 1902
3 M–Spooner 2 Dec 1901, Mil (Hobhouse vol)
4 M–Iwan–Muller 4 Jan 1902, Mil 36 (SA 41)
5 M–anon 5 May 1902, MP II, 364–5
6 M–Dawkins 16 Jan 1902, Mil (S 3)
7 K–B 12 Apr 1902, CT nos 1075, 1076, 1077: B–K 13 Apr 1902, CT no 1078
8 M dairy 14 Apr 1902, Mil (dep 72). M–C 16 Apr 1902, MP II, 337
9 M–C 14 Apr 1902, Cab 37/61
10 B–K 16 Apr, K–B 17 Apr 1902, CT nos 1090, 1097
11 SD III, 463. Kestell Through Shot and Flame 290
12 M–Dr Jameson 11 Mar 1902, Mil 35/279. M’s diary 21 Apr 1902, Mil (dep 72)
13 M’s diary 17 Apr 1902, Mil (dep 72)
14 M–C 16 Apr 1902, MP II, 337
15 Nimocks Milner’s Young Men 22–9. M–C 15 Nov 1901, MP II, 300 (see also MP II, 381–2)
16 M–C 14 Dec 1901, Cd 903/171
17 J. Adam Smith Buchan (London 1965) 114–17
18 Goold–Adams 3 Jan 1902, Cd 903/169 foll
19 E. Hobhouse Brunt of War 329, 351–2
20 W. Wybergh report 11 Dec 1901, Cd 903
21 Sir G. Lagden, Cd 903
22 Ibid. See also Wybergh’s report loc cit
23 Cd 903
24 Cd 903,1163/112
25 SJ 11 Apr 1902
26 EGO. OH (Maps) IV
27 SJ 30 Sep 1901, 24 Feb 1902. OH IV, 293–8, 411–14
28 OH IV, 417–20
29 Rawlinson’s diary 20–26 Mar 1902, Rawl 7. OH IV, 492–3
30 W. Congreve Ap 1902, Con
31 I. Hamilton–R 18 May 1902, Ham
32 C. Hickie 1901 Hick
33 SJ 31 Mar 1902. OH IV, 494–5
34 Rawlinson’s diary 1–6 Apr ism, Rawl 7. Hamilton–Churchill 5, 18 Apr 1902, Hamilton–brother 6 Apr, 3’ May 1902, Ham
35 Ibid. OH IV, 498
36 Rawlinson’s diary 1–6 Apr, Rawl 7
37 Hamilton–Churchill 5 Apr, i8 Apr 1902, Ham
38 Rawlinson’s diary 9–10 Apr 1902, Rawl
39 Ibid. OH IV, 499
40 Maj Roy Apr–May 1902, Roy. OH IV, 499–500
41 Childers Arme Blanche 239–60 of Goldmann 423
42 SJ 11 Apr 1902. OH IV, 499–500. TH V, 531–3. Tullibardine Military History of Perthshire
43 C. Hickie 3 Apr 1902, Hick
44 Ibid. Cf TH V, 534
45 Rawlinson’s diary 11 Apr 1902, Rawl 7
46 Hamilton–R 18 May 1902 enc in letter to W. S. Churchill, Ham I/15
47 Rawlinson’s diary MS cit. OH IV, 502–3. Cf TH V, 534–5
48 C. Hickie loc cit
49 His ‘great drive’ brought in 367 see OH IV, 505–10
50 OH IV, 517–21
51 Hamilton–Churchill 22, 23 Mar 1902, Ham I/15
52 Hamilton–Churchill 24 May 1902, Ham 1/15
53 Rawlinson’s diary 27–31 Dec, 27 Mar 1901–2, Rawl 7
55 Rawlinson–R 28 Aug, 14 Sep 1901, Bobs 61/22, 23
56 See Cd 981, 1423
57 Hamilton–Churchill 20 Jan, 31 May, 24 May 1902, Ham I/15
58 Hamilton–Churchill 20 Jan 1902, Ham I/15
59 Hamilton–E. Stanley (copy to WSC), Ham I/15
60 Churchill–Hamilton 25 Jun 1902, Ham I/15
61 SD III, 475. MP II, 342–3
62 SD III, 475–81
63 SD III, 482–3
64 Ibid
65 K–B 21 May 1902, CT no 1164
66 See full text in MP II, 350–1 (Addendum not in SD)
67 Cd 663
68 See note 66
69 See Pt IV chap 3 28–29
70 See note 66
71 M–C 21 May 1902, Pte and Pers Cab 37/61/93
72 M–C 14 Apr 1902, Pte and Pers CO 417/351/744
73 C’s phrase in Cabinet draft 27 May 19o2, Cab 37/61/104
74 M–C 21 May 1902, Pte and Conf Cab 37/61/94
75 C–M 22 May 1902, Sec and Pers Cab 37/61/95
76 C–M 23 May 1902, Conf Cab 37/61/96
77 M–C 25 May 1902, Cab 37/61/101
78 Compare C’s draft for Cabinet of 24 May (Cab 37/61/97) with the text given Cabinet on 27th (Cab 37/61/104)
79 See note 76
80 C–M 27 May 1902, CO 417/351/708
81 Kestell 310–12
82 Ibid
83 De Wet Three Years’ War 401–35. Kestell 298–312
84 De Wet Three Years’ War 413
85 Ibid 432–3
86 Ibid 406–7
87 SPG Series E (Ref 47) Pretoria and see lists of atrocities against Africans SD III and WO 32/7886, 8122, 8547
88 De Wet 411, 415, 420–1
89 Col Mills report on Holkrantz in WO Library London. SJ 6 May 1902
90 De Wet 426
91 Ibid 404–435. Kestell 305–12
92 De Wet 408–9
93 Ibid 409–11
94 Ibid 427
95 CO 417/362/8–9
96 De Wet 431, 477–86
97 Ibid 486–90
98 Ibid 491–2
99 Ibid 502–6. Kestell 335–9
100 De Wet 506. Kestell 343
101 Ibid 343–5. MP II, 362–3
102 M–Ly E. Cecil 30, 31 May 1902. MP II, 364–5. Ld Salisbury was horrified. Dawkins–M 13 Jun 1902: ‘wahid Turk, has really surpassed hisel in indecencys’ [sic] Mil
103 M–Friend 30 May 1902, MP II, 364–5
104 Lieut (later Sir Charles) Pym tape recorded 1970
105 Rawlinson diary 1 Jun 1902, Rawl 7
106 Pte Whinnell tape recorded 1970
107 Rawlinson diary loc cit
108 Lieuts Pym, Lang, Stericker, Dr Stock tape recorded 1970
109 Ptes Blunson, Brayne, Bowers, Whitton, Higgitt etc tape recorded 1970
EPILOGUE: WINNERS AND LOSERS
Head of chapter William Plomer (with acknowledgement)
1 Gross £201m, net £187m on army votes: RCSAW IV, 340. For other payments see MP II, 372–3
2 RCSAW IV, 258
3 Ibid I, 35
4 Ibid
5 Martin 31
6 Cd 3028. MP II, 372–3
7 D. Denoon in B. Ogot War and Society (London 1972) 116
8 See chap 39 note 72
9 At war’s end there were 23,000 Africans working in Native Labour Dept, 5–6,000 on railway, and thousands of others in SAC. See CO 417
10 Cd 821, 822, 888, 981, 1423 etc
11 Canon Farmer 29 Mar 1901, SPG Series E (Ref 47) Pretoria
12 See TH V, 513–15
13 I. Hamilton–R 28 Mar 1904, Bobs 36/125
14 DNB. Ridgeway–R 20 Apr 1903, Bobs 36/113
15 DNB
16 DSAB III, 187
17 Buller–wife 1900, Bull (Crediton)
18 DNB
19 TH VI, 476
20 J. De Bloch RUSI Journal Dec 1901
21 MP II, 367–402
22 Le May 155–91
23 M. Wilson & L. Thompson Vol II, passim
24 Ibid 333–48
Index
à Court (later Repington), Lt-Col C., 164–5, 213; at Spion Kop, 284–5, 287, 296, 297, and after, 350, 368
Abdy, Maj. A. J., CO 53rd Battery, RFA, 273
Abon Dam, cavalry charge at (15 Feb. 1900), 327
Adams, Col H. G., in charge of concentration camps, 494
Adye, Maj., Intelligence Officer to White, 153
Africans, 15–16; Boer attitude towards, xxi, 17; Milner on ‘sacrifice’ of, 119–20, 121, 418; Boer laws concerning, in Transvaal, 122, 429, and in Orange Free State, 490; as mine-workers (at Kimberley) 182, 202, 325, (on Rand) 47–8, 429, (wages of) 49, 258–9, 430, 554; mine-workers expelled from Rand at start of war escape on foot to Natal, 120–1; territories of, raided by Boers, Buller arranges for levies to protect, 162; as cornerstone of Kruger’s (wages of) 49, 258–9; work for British as drivers, guides, labourers, spies, xvii, 211, 391, 402, 422, 540, also in arms, xvi, 402, 547–8; in sieges of Kimberley, 321–2, 325, and Mafeking, 389, 396, 402, 405–10, 413, 418; in Bloemfontein on arrival of British, 372, 373, 376; repel Boers from their territories, 498, 521; in concentration camps, 510, 516; question of rights of in peace negotiations, 490, 491, 563, 565, 576, and after, 577; Boers begin to fear attitude of 508, 566–7; deaths of; attributable to war, xiv, 573, 577, (killed by Boers) xvi, 534; Boers and present-day nationalism of 577
Afrikaans language, xxi
Afrikaner Bond, 486, 486
Afrikaners, xxi; in Cape Colony, 15, 18, 21, 22, (and Jameson Raid) 31, (at prospect of war) 62–3, 69, (Milner’s fear of rising by, see under Milner); percentage of fighting for British, 571
Airlie, Lt-CoL Earl of, CO 12th Lancers, 434
Albrecht, Maj., Boer artillery commander, 197, 198
Alderson, Lt-Col E. A. H., CO mounted infantry brigade, 391
Aldworth, Lt-Col W., CO Cornwall Light Infantry, 337, 338
Alford, Lieut. Henry, on Ladysmith, 343, 367
Alleman’s Nek, Drakensberg: action at (June 1900), 453
Allenby, Lt-Col E. H. H. (later Field-Marshal Lord), 497–8, 572
Aloe Knoll, at Spion Kop, 289, 290, 294, 296
Altham, Maj., Intelligence Officer, 96, 213, 263
ambulance teams, sent by European countries to Boers, 256, 389
Amery, Leo, Times correspondent, 100, 103, 104, 107, 506; editor of Times History of the war, xiv, xv, 80, 427, 457; on Buller, 215, 231, 345, 370, 257
amnesty: in Kitchener’s Middelburg peace terms, 490, (Milner and Cabinet object to) 491, 504, 535, (lack of causes Botha’s rejection) 499; in Pretoria peace terms, Cabinet allow concession on, 552, 563
Amphlett, Maj. C. G., CO guard at waterworks, Sannah’s Post, 391
animal transport: Methuen’s lack of 180; Buller’s lack of, 212; see also horses, mules, Oxen
Ardagh, Maj.-Gen. Sir John, Director of Intelligence, War Office, 76, 77
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 197, 198, 202, 203, 204
armaments: for Transvaal, after Jameson Raid, 31, 41–2, 50, 66, 69; Royal Navy to prevent importation of, through Delagoa Bay, 163; from De Beers’s stocks at Kimberley, 184armistices: on Wagon Hill, 276; on Hart’s Hill, 359–60; for 24 hours before surrender of Johannesburg, 428, 429
Army Service Corps, 380, 407
artillery, new role for (creeping barrage ahead of infantry), 345–6, 361, 457
Artillery, Royal Field, 108, 203, 205; under Long at Colenso, 217, 223, 229–31, 233–6; Batteries: (13th) 126, 131, 152, 261, (14th) 240, (18th) 196, (53rd) 273, (62nd) 197, (66th) 240, (67th) 126, 129, (69th) 126, 131, 143, (75th) 196, (82nd) 339
Artillery, Royal Garrison, 347
Artillery, Royal Horse: at Sannah’s Post (Q and U Batteries), 391, 393–4, 395, 444; at relief of Mafeking, 416
artillery of Boers, 103; from Creusot, 36; Creusot 75-mm field guns, 41, 126,
(72 more, ordered too late) 69, (outrange British 15-pounders) 135; Creusot 155-mm (Long Toms), 41, 77, 142, 143, 146, 150, 258, (at Ladysmith) 154, 266–7, 268, 365, (at Kimberley) 323–4, 328, 329, (at Mafeking) 401, 404; experimental Maxim-Nordenfeldt i-pounder ‘Pom-Poms’ (Vickers-Maxims), made in Britain, 41, 196, 205; Krupp 120-mm howitzers and 75-mm field-guns, 197
Ashe, Dr E. O., MO at Kimberley, 184–5, 324–5, 326, 327, 328
Asquith, H. H., 248, 253, 465; and Milner, 14, 24, 32, 87, 510
Asquith, Margot (née Tennant), 24, 32, 87, 166, 465
Atkins, John, Manchester Guardian correspondent, 279; at Tugela River, 207, 208, 209; after Colenso, 238, 240; and Churchill, 278, 347; and Spion Kop, 283, 297; in actions on way to Ladysmith, 349, 356–7, 359, 362, 367
Austin, Alfred, Poet Laureate, on Jameson, 30
Australian contingent in South Africa, 249, 416, 496; Bush Veldt Carbineers of, and shooting of prisoners, 538–9
Ava, Lord, with Col Frank Rhodes, 99
Babington, Maj.-Gen. J. M.: Brigadier under French, 318, 390; CO mobile Column, 514 Baden-Powell, Col R. S. S., special service officer, 90, 397; CO Rhodesian troopers at Mafeking, 105, 117, 186, 395; instructed to raid Transvaal at outbreak of war, 398–9; in siege of Mafeking, (arms Africans) 389, 396, 402, (exchanges letters with Eloff) 396–7, (food policy) 405–9, (reports to Roberts) 405, 409, (at relief) 417
Baden-Powell, Maj. B. F. S., brother of Col R.S.S., 409
Badenhorst, Commandant, 477, 478, 479, 567
Bailey, Sir Abe, Rand magnate, 575
Baillie, Maj., Morning Post correspondent, 413, 417
Bakenlaagte, Transvaal: Benson’s column defeated at (30 Oct. 1901), 536
Balfour, A. J., 27, 33, 58, 83, 466, 502; deputy Prime Minister, 87, 253; and despatch of troops, 92, 93–4; would have compromised with Kruger, 101, in; and replacement of Buller by Roberts, 244, 245
Balfour, Gerald, 466
balloons, observation, 212, 351, 420; at Magersfontein, 204, 205, 206
Baralong Africans, in Mafeking, 396, 402, 407, 409; many expelled, 410; during Eloff’s raid, 411, 413
Barker, Lt-Col J. S. S., CO mobile column, 547
Barnato, ‘Barney’, Rand magnate, 85
Barry, Capt., with Jameson, 5
Barton, Maj.-Gen. G., CO 6th Brigade, 173, 213, 214; at Colenso, 217, 232, 234
Basuto mine-workers, at Kimberley, 185
Basutoland, 439
Battersby, Prevost, Morning Post correspondent, 427–8, 433
Bechuanaland Protectorate Regiment, 399, 400, 405, 412, 413–14
Beit, Alfred, 85, 490, 577; and Rhodes, xxii; and Jameson Raid, 1, 2, 20, 21, 22, 28, 29; and Milner, 35, 89, 90, 119, 258–9; and ‘Great Deal’, 56, 57; and Uitlanders, 112, 116
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