J. M. Babington.

Aide-de-Camp Lieutenant F. W. Wormald, 7th
Hussars.

Brigade-Major Captain C. J. Briggs, 1st
Dragoon Guards.

Officer Commanding Mounted Major and Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel
Infantry[J] E. A. H. Alderson, p.s.c.,
Royal West Kent Regt.

Adjutant Mounted Infantry[L] Captain H. M'Micking, Royal
Scots.

2ND BRIGADE.

Major-General Colonel (local Major-Gen.)
J. P. Brabazon, C.B., A.D.C.

Aide-de-Camp Major Hon. C. E. Bingham, 1st
Life Guards.

Brigade-Major Captain Hon. T. W. Brand, 10th
Hussars.

Officer Commanding Mounted Captain and Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel
Infantry[J] R. J. Tudway, 2nd Bn. Essex
Regt.

Adjutant Mounted Infantry[L] Captain H. L. Ruck-Keene,
Oxford. Light Infantry.

FOOTNOTES:

[J] Graded as Assistant Adjutant-General.

[K] Will act for both Brigades.

[L] Graded as Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-Generals.

COLERIDGE GROVE, M.S.
_2nd October 1899._

SOUTH AFRICA AND THE TRANSVAAL WAR

CHAPTER I

THE CRISIS AT HOME

"Patience, long sick to death, is dead. Too long
Have sloth and doubt and treason bidden us be
What Cromwell's England was not, when the sea
To him bore witness, given of Blake, how strong
She stood, a commonweal that brooked no wrong
From foes less vile than men like wolves set free,
Whose war is waged where none may fight or flee--
With women and with weanlings. Speech and song
Lack utterance now for loathing. Scarce we hear
Foul tongues, that blacken God's dishonoured name
With prayers turned curses and with praise found shame,
Defy the truth whose witness now draws near
To scourge these dogs, agape with jaws afoam,
Down out of life. Strike, England, and strike home."

--ALGERN