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ILLUSTRATIONS

FULL-PAGE PLATES.

H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn,
K.G., Commander-in-chief of the
Mediterranean Forces, and Colonel-in-chief
of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers _Frontispiece_

Regimental Book-Plate _Title-page_

Casualties at Talana _Facing page_ 8

Major-General C. D. Cooper, C.B., commanding
2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers in Natal " " 24

Captain C. F. Romer and Captain E. Fetherstonhaugh " " 32

General Hart's Flank Attack from the
Boers' Point of View (Plan) " " 34

Casualties at Colenso " " 36

Group of twenty Sergeants taken after the
Battle of Colenso, all that remained
of Forty-Eight who left Maritzburg " " 40

Casualties at Tugela Heights " " 56, 64

Taking Fourteen Streams (Plan) " " 88

Miscellaneous Casualties " " 104

Colonel H. Tempest Hicks, C.B., commanding
2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers, March, 1900--March,
1904 _facing Page_ 112

Plan of Position at Zuikerbosch " " 120

Plan of Battle of Frederickstadt " " 168

Sketch Plan of Kilmarnock House and Fortifications " " 184

Krugersdorp from Kilmarnock House " " 200

Officers of the 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin
Fusiliers who embarked for Aden " " 216

The Memorial Arch, Dublin " " 232

The South African Memorial, Natal " " 238

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT.

The Last Rites 10

Armourer-Sergeant Waite--'Delenda Est Carthago' 18

Railway Bridge at Colenso 23

Boer Trenches, Colenso 36

Bringing down the Wounded 41

After the Fight 65

The Grave of Colonel Sitwell and Captain Maitland,
Gordon Highlanders (attached), near Railway
at Pieter's Hill 67

Pieter's Hill, Feb. 27th, 1900 69

Pontoon Bridge, River Tugela, Feb. 28th, 1900 70

2nd Royal, Dublin Fusiliers, heading Relief Troops,
marching into Ladysmith, March, 1900, 72

General Sir Redvers Buller, V.C., entering Ladysmith 73

The Dublins are coming--Ladysmith 74

Sir George White watching Relief Force entering
Ladysmith 75

Sergeant Davis in Meditation over 'Long Cecil' at
Kimberley. 'Shall I Take it for the Officers?' 83

St. Patrick's Day in Camp. Private Monaghan, the
Regimental Butcher, in Foreground 84

A Wash in hot Water--Aliwal North 87

The Regimental Maxim in Action at Fourteen
Streams 89

Captain Jervis, General Fitzroy Hart, C.B., C.M.G.,
and Captain Arthur Hart 91

Issuing Queen Victoria's Chocolate. Colour-Sergeant
Connell, 'G' Company, on left 93

First Entry into Krugersdorp. Captain and Adjutant
Fetherstonhaugh in Foreground 99

'Speed, Dead Slow' 104

Hoisting 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