PREFACE.

EXPLANATORY.

CHAPTER I. TO BLOEMFONTEIN.

CHAPTER II. THE 21ST BRIGADE. THE TREK BEGINS.

CHAPTER III. TO ZAND RIVER.

CHAPTER IV. THE FIGHT AT ZAND RIVER.

CHAPTER V. ACROSS THE VAAL.

CHAPTER VI. DOORNKOP.

CHAPTER VII. PRETORIA.

CHAPTER VIII. DIAMOND HILL, FIRST DAY.

CHAPTER IX. DIAMOND HILL, SECOND DAY.

CHAPTER X. TO SPRINGS.

CHAPTER XI. TO REITZ.

CHAPTER XII. TO MEYER'S KOP.

CHAPTER XIII. RETIEF'S NEK.

CHAPTER XIV. TO THE BOER LAAGER.

CHAPTER XV. TO WINBURG.

CHAPTER XVI. UP AND DOWN.

CHAPTER XVII. TO LINDLEY.

CHAPTER XVIII. THE RAILWAY NEEDS REPAIR.

CHAPTER XIX. TO BOTHAVILLE.

CHAPTER XX. VENTERSBURG ROAD.

CHAPTER XXI. BACK TO LINDLEY.

CHAPTER XXII. IN GARRISON.

CHAPTER XXIII. THE RAISING OF THE MOUNTED COLUMN.

CHAPTER XXIV. TWO DISTRICTS.

CHAPTER XXV. DE PUT.

CHAPTER XXVI. TO VLAKFONTEIN.

CHAPTER XXVII. ABRAHAM'S KRAAL.

CHAPTER XXVIII. NORTHWARDS AND THE END.

CHAPTER XXIX. THE THIRD BATTALION.

APPENDIX A. THE 13TH M. I.

APPENDIX B. THE 21ST M. I.

APPENDIX C.

APPENDIX D.

Title: Two Years on Trek

Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa

Author: Louis EugÈne du Moulin

Editor: H. F. Bidder

Language: English

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TWO YEARS ON TREK
BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE
ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT
IN SOUTH AFRICA.
BY THE LATE LT.-COLONEL DU MOULIN.

WITH A PREFACE BY

COL. J. G. PANTON, C.M.G.

Commanding 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, 1903-1907.

EDITED BY

H. F. BIDDER,

Captain, 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment.

MURRAY AND CO.,
THE MIDDLESEX PRINTING WORKS,
180, BROMPTON ROAD, S.W.
1907.

THIS BOOK

WRITTEN FOR THE MOST PART BY THE LATE

LT.-COL. DU MOULIN

HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND PUBLISHED

BY HIS COMRADES

AS THE MOST FITTING MEMORIAL

TO A GALLANT SOLDIER.

DULCE · ET · DECORUM · EST · PRO · PATRIA · MORI

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