 | Sir George Forrest - 1901 - 532 pages
...this force, be they of the Royal Navy, the Colonials, the Regulars, the Militia, the Yeomanry, or the Volunteers. Their interests will always be very dear...absolutely almost incessant for a whole year, in some cases for more than a year. There have been no rest, no days off to recruit, no going into winter quarters,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 692 pages
...lines bridges and culverts had been destroyed in many places, and rails were being constantly torn up. The service which the South African Force has performed...annals of war, inasmuch as it has been absolutely incessant for a whole year, in some cases more than a year. There has been no rest, no days off to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 676 pages
...lines bridges and culverts had been destroyed in many places, and rails were being constantly torn up. The service which the South African Force has performed...annals of war, inasmuch as it has been absolutely incessant for a whole year, in some cases more than a year. There has been no rest, no days off to... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1901 - 626 pages
...destroyed in many places, and rails were being constantly torn up. 35. As stated in my Farewell Order*, "the service which the South " African Force has performed...annals " of war, inasmuch as it has been absolutely incessant for a whole year, in " some cases, more than a year. There has been no rest, no days off... | |
 | Edward Gilliat - 1911 - 414 pages
...severity is sometimes kinder than gentle measures. In Lord Roberts' address to his troops he writes : " The service which the South African Force has performed...been absolutely almost incessant for a whole year. There has been no rest, no days off to recruit, no going into winter quarters ; for months together,... | |
 | Harold Felix Baker Wheeler - 1915 - 322 pages
...Roberts' Farewell to South Africa 210 On the hurricane deck of the ss Canada at Cape Town Frank Craig but I have come to the conclusion that, as Lord Kitchener...in some cases more than a year. There has been no rest — no days off to recruit — no going into winter quarters, as in other campaigns which have... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - 1915 - 414 pages
...this force, be they of the Royal Navy, the Colonials, the Regulars, the Militia, the Yeomanry, or the Volunteers. Their interests will always be very dear...absolutely almost incessant for a whole year, in some cases for more than a year. There have been no rests, no days off to recruit, no going into winter quarters,... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - 1916 - 410 pages
...this force, be they of the Royal Navy, the Colonials, the Regulars, the Militia, the Yeomanry, or the Volunteers. Their interests will always be very dear...absolutely' almost incessant for a whole year, in some cases for more than a year. There have been no rests, no days off to recruit, no going into winter quarters,... | |
 | 1901 - 320 pages
...destroyed in many places, and rails were being constantly torn up. As stated in my Farewell Order,* "the service which the South African Force has performed...annals of war, inasmuch as it has been absolutely incessant for a whole year, in some cases more than a year. There has been no rest, no days off to... | |
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Volunteers ; their interests will always be very dear to me, and I shall continue to work for the Army as long as I can work at all. " The service which the South African Force has performed is, I venture to think, unique in the annals of war, inasmuch... 