IN NATAL 1899-1900 Journal of Active Service KEPT DURING THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH AND SUbsequent OPERATIONS Under General Sir Redvers Buller, V.C., G.C.B. BY LIEUTENANT BURNE, R.N. LONDON EDWARD ARNOLD 1902 FOR THE ARMY, OUR COMRADES AND OUR FRIENDS, THE NAVY HAS NOTHING BUT THE DEEPEST RESPECT AND ADMIRATION. 1 41 X645 INTRODUCTION THIS Journal, completed before leaving the front in October, 1900, does not assume to be more than a somewhat rough and unadorned record of my personal experiences during ten months of the South African (Boer) Campaign of 1899-1900 while in detached command of two 12-pounder guns of H.M.S. Terrible and H.M.S. Tartar. Having been asked by some of my friends to publish it, I am emboldened to do so, in the hope that the Journal may be of interest to those who read it, as giving some idea of work done by a Naval Brigade when landed for service at a most critical time. A few notes on Field Gunnery are appended with a view to give to others a few ideas which I picked up while serving with the guns on shore, after a previous experience as Gunnery Lieutenant in H.M.S Thetis and Cambrian. For the photographs given I must record my thanks to Lieutenant Clutterbuck, R.N., Mr. Hollins, R.N., and other kind friends. C. R. N. B. April, 1902. |