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November 18th

Special Transvaal War Edition.
Mainly about the Devonshire or Gordon Highlanders Regiments
Portraits of killed or wounded - with individual photos:
Lieutenant H R GUNNING of the Devonshire Regiment (formerly Northamptonshire
Regiment), educated Clifton College.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Percival WILFORD, 1st Battalion Gloucester Regiment
- Royal Irish Fusiliers
Capt. W B SILVER, Lieutenant W D DOONER - Royal Irish Fusiliers,
Capt. Stuart DUNCAN of Gloucester Regt. taken prisoner,
Lieutenant William LACHLAN FORBES, wounded, Imperial Light Horse.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Edward KEITH-FALCONER, 1st Northumberland Fusiliers,
killed in action (son of Major the Hon. Charles KEITH-FALCONER and grandson
of the seventh Earl of Kintore).
Surgeon-Major Edward W GRAY of Royal Army Medical Corps,
Major Henry E Buchanan RIDDELL (born 1860) of 1st Devonshire Regiment, wounded.
Captain William B LAFONE of the 1st Devonshire Regiment, wounded,
Corporal Rupert WICKHAM of the Imperial Light Horse, wounded.
Shoeing-Smith A HISCOCK (18th Hussars),
Captain S DUNCAN (1st Gloucestershire Regiment).
Several drawings taken from photographs of men of the Gordon Highlanders
and Devonshire Regiment.
Photographs of Captain J N C KENNEDY (Royal Engineers),
Mr Frederic W H HARRIS (chairman of the Coal Factors' Society),
Lord Osborne De Vere BEAUCLERK (17th Lancers),
Ottmar MERGENTHALER (inventor of the linotype machine),
Lieutenant the Hon. Ralph Legge POMEROY (second son of Viscount Harberton)
of 5th Dragoon Guards.
Lieutenant W J C FLETCHER, 1st Battalion of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
(died of sickness),
Robert Abbot HADFIELD (the newly elected Master Cutler of Sheffield).
General photographs of Border Mounted Rifles, Ladysmith Camp,
the King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) on board the S.S. Arawa,
Colonel SPENS and officers of the 2nd Shropshire Light Infantry,
Officers of the third infantry division ammunition column, the 1st Battalion
Gordon Highlanders leaving Harrington Dock, Liverpool on board the S.S. Cheshire,
Colonel NEELD and officers of Household Cavalry,
Colonel BANFIELD and officers of the Welsh Regiment.
Photograph with names Royal East Kent Yeomanry. Identifies Trooper FOSTER,
Trooper SOLE, Trooper CLARKE, Sergeant MUDFORD, Trooper BUTCHER, Sergeant
MONCKTON, Trooper DEVERSON, Trooper PALMER, Sergeant-Major CARLISLE, Trooper
TICE, Trooper ROBINSON.
Individual named photographs of officers at the seat of operations: Colonel
Audley Dallas NEELD (Commanding the Composite Regiment of Household Cavalry),
Colonel FRC CARLETON (Royal Irish Fusiliers, prisoner), Colonel BROOKE (commanding
Connaught Rangers), Major S HUMPHREY (Glouscestershire Regiment, prisoner),
Lieutenant ETHELSTAN (Naval Brigade, Ladysmith), Capt the Hon Hedworth LAMBTON
(Commanding Naval Brigade at Ladysmith), Colonel A H PAGET (Commanding Scots
Guards).
Cover shows drawing of the Gordon Highlanders on their way to Elandslaagte.
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