I gave the order to inspan, strike tents, put all stores, &c., into the waggon, and at once rode up to the Commissariat Store, and found that a note had been received from the third Column to state that the enemy were advancing in force against our post,... A Holiday in South Africa - Page 215by Ralph Watts Leyland - 1882 - 362 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 380 pages
...store, and there found that a note had been received from the Third Column, stating that the enemy was advancing in force against our post, which we were to strengthen and hold at all costs. Lieutenant Bromhead was already most actively engaged loopholing and barricading the store building... | |
| Charles L. Norris-Newman - 1880 - 464 pages
...Stores, asking me to come up at once. I gave the order to inspan, strike tents, put all stores, &c., into the waggon, and at once rode up to the Commissariat...post, which we were to strengthen and hold at all costs. Lieutenant Bromhead was most actively engaged in loopholing and barricading the store building... | |
| Whitworth Porter - 1889 - 612 pages
...store, and there found that a note had been received from the third column stating that the enemy was advancing in force against our post, which we were to strengthen and hold at all costs." " I gave instructions to strike tents, and to put all stores A company of the 24th Regiment,... | |
| Whitworth Porter - 1889 - 612 pages
...store, and there found that a note had been received from the third column stating that the enemy was advancing in force against our post, which we were to strengthen and hold at all costs." A company of the 24th Regiment, under Lieutenant Bromhead, was at the station, together with... | |
| Farquhar Glennie, Sir William Penn Symons - 1892 - 458 pages
...The other carabineer rode off to take the " news to Helpmakaar. "Almost immediately I received the message from Lieutenant " Bromhead, commanding the...actively engaged in loopholing and "barricading the store buildings and hospital, and connecting the " defence of the two buildings by walls of mealie-bags and... | |
| Philip Aveling Wilkins - 1904 - 476 pages
...and at once rode up to the Commissariat Store, and found that a note had been received from the 3rd Column to state that the enemy were advancing in force...post, which we were to strengthen and hold at all costs. LIEUTENANT BROMHEAD was most actively engaged in loop-holing and barricading the store building... | |
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