the Union Jack at Krugersdorp 106

Johan Meyer's House, five Miles outside Johannesburg 107

Sergeant Davis, evidently with all we wanted 108

Paardekraal Monument, Krugersdorp 110

The Officers' Mess 120

Corporal Tierney and Chef Burst 123

Fourth Class on the Z.a.s.m. 125

Fifth Class on the Z.a.s.m. 127

The Vaal River, Lindeque Drift 133

The R.D.F. Bathing in Mooi River, Potchefstroom 136

Father Mathews 142

Funeral of Commandant Theron and a British
Soldier, Sept. 6th, 1900 149

Buffelsdoorn Camp, Gatsrand Hills 152

A Group of Boer Prisoners taken at the Surprise
of Pochefstroom 153

Colour-Sergeant Cossy issuing Beer 154

'Come to the Cook-house Door, Boys!' 163

Sergeant French and the Officers' Mess, Nachtmaal 170

4.7 crossing a Drift, assisted by the Dublin Fusiliers 172

Boy Fitzpatrick waiting at Lunch 178

'The Latest Shave.' Captain G. S. Higginson (mounted)
and Major Bird 181

The Hairdresser's Shop 192

Kilmarnock, Krugersdorp 193

A Blockhouse 196

The 'Blue Caps' relieving the 'Old Toughs' 201

Dthala Camp 210

Dthala Village, From Camp 211

A Frontier Tower--Abdali Country 213

Homeward bound at last, after twenty Years'
Foreign Service 219

PART I.

FIGHTING.

THE 2ND BATTALION

ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS

CHAPTER I.

TALANA.

'The midnight brought the signal sound of strife,
The morn the marshalling in arms, the day--
Battle's magnificently