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36 pages, small 4to (210 x 170 mm), engraved portrait of Major-General Hector MacDonald, folding map, limp brown (Khaki) cloth, titled in black on the upper cover and with a vignette of Black Watch soldier, regimental crest on the back cover, inscription in ink on the verso of the frontispiece (To a respected old comrade Tom Ferguson with best wishes John Scrimgeour), some foxing and cloth a little dull
Not in 'A South African Bibliography'. Hackett, Boer War Books, page 110 (illustrated), "Letters written by a Black Watch volunteer to his mother presenting an unbroken record of the work and marches of the Active Service Company in South Africa from March 1900 to April 1901. The letters are reprinted from the Dundee Evening Telegraph for private circulation. The Black Watch, together with other volunteer companies, joined the Highland Brigade under General Hector Macdonald. For approximately one year they campaigned in the Orange Free State during which period they marched over 1400 miles. At various times the Company was at Norval's Pont, Bloemfontein, Winburg, Ventersburg, Kroonstad and Reitz. The volunteers experienced frequent skirmishing with the enemy but were not seriously engaged until the Retiefs Nek operations of July 22 - 24, 1900. In September 1900 they took part in an attack on a Boer column near Winburg. The following month they completed a short spell of garrison duty in Ladybrand, and in November, they were the occupying force at Valentines Kop during operations to entrap General de Wet. During the latter part of their service, from January to the end of March, 1900, the volunteers operated in south eastern Orange River Colony".
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