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Shipping records - October 1899London Times, 02 Oct 99, p3d. Dateline New York, 30 Sep A dispatch from New Orleans states that another steamer, the Montreal, has been chartered by the British Government. Dateline New York, 1 Oct A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica states that about 2000 mules, provisions, and 2/Leinster Regiment will go from there to the Cape, probably by the steamer Barbadian.
p3e, Dateline Madrid, 1 Oct British agents are still engaged in the north of Spain purchasing large numbers of mules to be sent to SA
p8b The hired transport Zibenghla, delayed by overheated coal bunkers, left Mersey for the Cape on Saturday. Three Houston liners have been requisitioned to call at Naples for mules, and the Hyades was due to leave at once. Each vessel will take 3000 mules on board. Major R L Walter and Lieutenant J Vaughan, 7th Hussars, and Veterinary-Major Day left Colchester for Naples on Saturday for the purpose of buying mules. The Admiralty have chartered the steamer Magda, Messrs. Trenchmann, shipowners of West Hartlepool, for the conveyance of coal and stores to Simons Town, SA Messrs. Merryweather’s steamer Hambleton of West Hartlepool was also chartered.
London Times, 03 Oct 99, p3b Dateline New York, 2 Oct The British Government has placed a contract with the Louisville Packing Company for 4,5000,000 pounds of tinned meat for quick delivery. Similar orders have been placed in Chicago, Cincinnati and St Louis. The meat is for British troops in SA
London Times, 03 Oct 99, p8a The Press Association says: 149 officers, 68 warrant officers, and 1225 men, including over 1000 men of the ASC and General Hospital Staff, will leave Southampton in the Braemar Castle on Friday for SA The Zibenghla, which had been delayed nearly a week in the Mersey, (overheated coal) left at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon. She will land her pilot at Queenstown or Waterford and go straight to Cape Town. Three of Messrs. Elder, Dempster, and Co’s steamers have been engaged as transports, namely the Montezuma, the Prah, and the Mount Royal. The Montezuma is now at New Orleans and will leave in a couple of days with mules. The Prah is due at New Orleans and the Mount Royal has just reached Liverpool. The Cunard Company’s steamer Carinthia is now at Boston and will leave for New Orleans to load mules. The Union Company’s liners, Gascon, Ghoorka, German, Spartan and Trogan, for transport service are in the hands of artificers at Southampton. The transport Dilwara is now ready to embark replacements for India. The transport Nubia is expected to arrive today with 2/Grenadier Guards from Gibraltar. The new Allan liner Bavarian has been chartered to convey troops to the Cape. It is reported that the Admiralty is arranging for the City liner City of Cambridge and the Bibby liner Yorkshire. The charter is at the rate of 1 British Pound per ton gross register per month. Major Holden, RA, superintendent of the Royal Gun Factory, has completed the howitzers and Maxims which are required for the Natal and Zululand field force, and the ordnance will leave by the Braemar Castle on Friday morning. Orders for the embarkation of a large detachment of artificers, blacksmiths, shoesmiths, wheelwrights, collar-makers, farriers, carriagesmiths, mechanicians for telegraphic apparatus, hitchers, etc., have been received and the men will leave by the mail steamship Mexican from Southampton.
London Times, 04 Oct 99, p5a Dateline Durban, 02 Oct The Lalpoora arrived this evening from India with the 21st Battery FA, the 26th Company of the Field Hospital Corps, and commissariat stores. Dateline Capetown 03 Oct The Tantallon Castle arrived here this morning. p10a The Union Company’s Mail steamer Mexican will leave Southampton on Saturday next and will convey the following to SA: Lieutenant Colonel J F Brocklehurst, Royal Horse Guards; Lieutenant Viscount Crichton, Royal Horse Guards, two officers, six non-commissioned officers and 61 men of the Army Ordnance Corps; Surgeon R Richards, RN, and Surgeon M Falkner, RN The Mexican is due at Cape Town on Oct 25 and at Durban, Natal on Nov 2. The hired transports Gascon and Ghoorka are now awaiting orders to leave Southampton for SA and the hospital ships Spartan and Trojan will leave within a few days. The White Star steamer Nomadic has been chartered to convey troops to SA Two regiments of cavalry are to be conveyed from Liverpool by the Leyland liner Armenian. The steamships Ocean and Ocampo have also been chartered as transports to the Cape.
Cape Times Weekly Edition, 04 Oct 99 p1 Major Scott-Turner, R High. has been appointed staff officer at Kimberley. Captain E S Bulfin, Yorks. has been appointed a special service officer. The Scot arrived Cape Town Sep 26. Among the passengers were: Right Hon. The Earl of Ava, Colonel Frank Rhodes, DSO, Major Panzera, & Commander W L Grant.
p3 Dateline Johannesburg, Sep 30. About 200 Germans under Count Zeppelen and the Irish Corps under Mr Blake are to be ready to leave here.
p4 Dateline Palapye, Oct 2. 350 to 400 Boers are on the border at Crocodile River opposite Selika
p6 Dateline Tuli, Sep 27. Colonel Bodle and Captain Tracyarrived here last week and proceeded Rhode’s Drift. Bodle remained and Tracy left for Hq. Sunday. Dateline Bulawayo, Sep 30. Local police are being armed with Lee-Metfords. Dateline Lourenco Marques, Sep 27. The Umvoti has discharged 12 tons of cartridge cases and will take away refugees. Reformers’ Contingent under Woolls Sampson. A corps formed by Trimble. Northumberland Regiment left London 18 Sep 45 officers and 980 men per Gaul, left Southampton Sep 15 and due Durban 12 Oct General White with 45 staff and special officers left England per Tantallon Castle Sep 16. The Sumatra left London 20 Sep for Malta to embark the S Wales Border Regiment and is due Cape Town Oct 22. The Jelunga left for Crete Sep 20 to embark 2/Rifle Brig. and 500 details for Durban Oct 29. The Dunera with 874 men for Bombay was stopped at Malta and sent to South Africa. The Powerful left England with 750 Naval Brigade on board. The Irish Fusiliers, from Egypt, are expected at Durban on Oct 16. The Indian Contingent are ordered to leave for Natal, Sep 25. 42 Field Battery left Bombay 17 Sep The Royal Irish Rifles left Calcutta, per Bunera, 18 Sep The Wurni left India with 2 cos. infantry and mules. The Indian left India 21 Sep with the Gloucester Regiment The Boolwana left Calcutta 20 Sep with 21st Bty Artillery. 21 Sep Sir A Hunter and staff of the Infantry Brig., Devonshire Regiment, and a Squadron 19th Hussars left Bombay. The Avoca left Alexandria for Natal with 1/Royal Irish Fusiliers ( 830 ). Due 16 Oct The India, with troops, left Calcutta for Durban. 2 Squadrons 9th Lancers has left Bombay for the Cape. 3 Batteries Artillery, 24 officers and 534 men embarked at Liverpool Tuesday. 25 officers and 300 men, ASC, sail by Kinfauns Castle Saturday and the Gaika takes an ammunition column of 8 officers, 194 men, 123 horses, and 53 wagons. The Gordons and the rest of the 18/Hussars have sailed from Bombay. The Braemar Castle sails with 1,200 men and 200 officers on Oct 6 for Natal.
London Times, 05 Oct 99, p3b. Dateline Durban, 03 Oct The transport Secundra arrived this afternoon with the 42nd Field Battery and army medical and vererinary detachments. Troops will disembark tomorrow. The Lalpoora’s troops landed this morning. Dateline Pietermaritzburg, 03 Oct The first transport from India, with the 21st Field Battery, has arrived, and the crisis of the military situation is now past, as transports will arrive daily. p3c Dateline Lorenzo Marques, 04 Oct Messrs. Donald Currie and Co’s steamer Arundel Castle sailed today wit 1200 Rand refugees. Large numbers were left behind. All trains arriving from the Transvaal are crowded. p5a&b The following is a list of the officers and troops who leave Southampton for SA tomorrow in the Braemar Castle: Staff. - Colonel the Hon. G H Gough, CB(in command), Colonel C P Ridley, CMG, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel H P Shekleton, Major H H Smythe, Brevet Major Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Lieutenant H W M Harington. Royal Army Medical Corps. - Lieutenant Colonel A H Anthonisz (in medical charge), Lieutenant Colonel H Grier, Lieutenant Colonel R D Hodson, Major R W Barnes, Major R W E H Nicholson, Major F D Elderton. Army Nursing Service. - Supt., Miss Garriock; nursing sisters, Miss Rose Innes, Miss Neale, Miss Anderson, Miss Nixon, Miss Murphy, Miss Snowdon, and Miss Guthrie. War Office Civil Staff. - Mr W R Macdonald, 1/Loyal North Lancashire Regiment; 2nd Lieutenant R C Wiltshire. Army Pay Dept. - Captain H Huntsman Royal Engineers. - Captain G E Phillips, Lieutenant A F Sargeant, Lieutenant W C Macfie, Lieutenant C C H Hogg. Army Ordnance Dept. - Major O C Sherwood, Captain C C Wrigley, Captain T J Warnes, Captain R J Hamblin, Lieutenant W Hutchings, Lieutenant T A Sidney. Army Service Corps. - Lieutenant Colonel F T Clayton, Major D Webb, Captain A E Longdon, Captain E E D Thornton, Captain H Davies, Captain R Ford, Captain J A T Tredgold, Captain F C S Norrington, Captain C D Christopher, Captain S L Reynolds, Captain H Cleeve, Captain E F Taylor, Captain J Puckle, Lieutenant H S Buckle, Lieutenant E G Evans, Lieutenant H S Wright, 2nd Lieutenant T J N Mears, 2nd Lieutenant W Taylor, 2nd Lieutenant C H Fanshawe, 2nd Lieutenant W A R Shakespear, 2nd Lieutenant P G P Lea, 2nd Lieutenant N G Anderson, 2nd Lieutenant R P S Elderton, Lieutenant & Qtrmstr. J P Walsh, Major G R C Paul, Captain C E McVittie, Lieutenant W K Bernard, Lieutenant A S M Porter, Lieutenant Colonel J A W Falls, Lieutenant C F Moore, Lieutenant Colonel S H Winter, Captain R O Burne, Captain F P S Taylor, Lieutenant L S Roberts, Lieutenant H G Beaumont, Major P J T Lewis, Captain A P Welman, Captain W J S McCormick, Lieutenant H O Knox, Lieutenant & Quartermaster W Cosgrove, Captain J C G Longmore, Captain G Conway-Gordon, Lieutenant R M Limond, Major G M V Hunt, Captain W H Foster, Lieutenant B S Moore, Captain W H M Armstrong, Major A L Caldwell, Lieutenant H W Clinch, Lieutenant J M Young, Lieutenant & Quartermaster D J Edwards, Major E F J Blakeney, Lieutenant M Moore, Lieutenant H J Russell, Lieutenant J G Lecky, Captain R G Berry, Brevet Major H N Sargent, Captain A Amery, Captain L A Atcherley, Lieutenant J W H Maturin, Captain G W B Boyce, Lieutenant & Quartermaster J Davis, Captain H N Colguhoun, Captain E W A Courtney, Captain A G Master, Lieutenant & Quartermaster H Murphy, Captain J C L Black, Captain & Quartermaster J H Edmondson, Lieutenant E C L Fitzwilliams, Lieutenant & Quartermaster F K Tull, Captain & Quartermaster R Richardson, Lieutenant & Quartermaster H Armstrong, Lieutenant & Quartermaster T Wallace, Lieutenant Colonel F F Johnson, Lieutenant Colonel W R Winter, Captain K Macdonald, Lieutenant D Parsons, Lieutenant C T Lloyd, Major E A Bramhall, Captain St J W A Parker, Major R H L Warner, Major G O Welch, Major C E Wyncoll, Major C Rawnsley, Lieutenant - Colonel R B McComb. 1/Royal Munster Fusiliers - 2nd Lieutenant C R Moore. Royal Engineers - Captain J H Twiss, Lieutenant M G E Manifold, Lieutenant H L Pritchard (DSO), The Hon. Lieutenant & Quartermaster A N Tucker. War Office Civil Staff. - A N Tucker 2/Royal Dublin Fusiliers. - 2nd Lieutenant F B Lane. 5th Dragoon Guards. - 2nd Lieutenant M R Head 2/Gordon Highlanders. - Lieutenant S C Maitland Royal Engineers. - Lieutenant-Col H E Ranson. 1/Devonshire Regiment - Lieutenant H B W Gardiner, 2nd Lieutenant E S C Willis. Royal Berkshire Regiment - Major G D R Williams. Also about 90 warrant officers and 1300 non-commissioned officers and men, comprising: No. 1 General Hospital Corps, 3 companies of Army Ordnance Corps, and 20 companies of the Army Service Corps. The Admiralty yesterday took up the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s steamers Oriental and Formosa for transport of troops to the Cape. The Nubia will leave shortly with troops for the Cape. The P & O Company have 8 of their steamers (40,000 tons, in Government service.
London Times, 06 Oct 99 p5a Dateline Durban, Oct 5. The Sutlej has arrived here from India with half of the Devonshire Regiment, the City of London with the remainder of the Devonshire Regiment, the Purnea with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, the Buldana with the 53rd Field Battery, and the Pandua with part of the 19th Hussars. p7a The steamer Mexican will leave Southampton tomorrow for SA with the following officers: Brevet Colonels J Howard, CB, & the Hon. C G Fortescue, CMG Staff officers to Natal, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town; Lieutenant Colonel J F Brocklehurst, MVO, Royal Horse Guards, Brevet Major E P C Girouard, DSO, RE, Captains J H Twiss, RE, H G Joly de Lotbiniere, RE, W A Tilney, 17th Lancers, W H A Smith, AOC, W A Adams, 5th Lancers, A R Hudson, RA, J Romer, 2/Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Lieutenants M G C Manifold, RE, H L Pritchard, DSO, RE, H A Mickleson, DSO, RE, E H M Leggett, RE, Viscount Crichton, Royal Horse Guards, Lieutenant & Quartermaster A H Tucker, RE, and 2nd Lieutenant R J Collins, 2/Berkshire Regiment
London Times, 07 Oct 99 p9a The Braemar Castle left Southampton for SA at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
London Times, 09 Oct 99 p5d Dateline Cape Town Oct 8. The Union liner Gaul with the Northumberland Regiment on board has arrived here. p5e Dateline Bombay Oct 8. The transports Virawa and Patiala sailed today for SA with the last portion of the Indian contingent, consisting of two squadrons of the 5th Dragoon Guards. p5f Dateline Kansas City Oct 7. British agents have contracted for 1200 mules to be shipped to New Orleans next Monday. p10f Up to the present 22 Liverpool steamers are under charter to the Government as transports; the latest addition being the steamer Kelvin Grove from Messrs. Houston and Company for transport of mules to the Cape. The steamer Devona, chartered by the Government to transport mules left Liverpool on Saturday for Naples. She embarked Colonel Rayment, Army Veterinary Corps and 20 men of the ASC and take on 1100 mules at Naples. Messrs. Houlder Bros. ’ steamer Southern Cross, chartered by the Government left Newport yesterday for Gibraltar to embark mules for SA The Vahmo, freight ship, loaded ammunition at Portsmouth and sailed Saturday for the Cape. Add the following to the list of passengers for the Mexican: Major Baker, Lieutenant J Birkbeck Surgeon Falkner, RN, Captain E F Holden, Captain Hudson, Surgeon R Richards, RN, and Lieutenant Tucker.
London Times, 10 Oct 99. p3a. Dateline Durban Oct 9. The transports Calstana and Nurani arrived this morning. The Nurani brought the remainder of the King’s Royal Rifles. The other arrivals today were the Wardha with a portion of the 9th Lancers, the Sirsa with the remainder of the Gordons and the Worona with the remainder of the 19th Hussars, p3b Dateline Rome Oct 9. According to a telegram from Catania to the Tribuna, several English officers have arrived there from Malta to buy mules for transport service in SA p5c A Reuter telegram from Calcutta states that the Bibby Line steamers Cheshire and Yorkshire have been chartered as troopships for SA The Anchor liner Algeria was yesterday chartered at Glasgow bu the Government for transport services to SA
London Times, 11 Oct 99. p3b Dateline Gibraltar Oct 10. Three hundred mules purchased in Spain by the British Government arrived here today for conveyance to the Cape on board the steamer Southern Cross, which is expected to arrive on Friday.
Cape Times Weekly Edition, 11 Oct 99 p6 Dateline Durban, 03 Oct The Lalpoora landed here 21st Field Battery, RA, 184 men, 6 15 pounder guns, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel J A Coxhead, 160 horses and 132 men British Field Hospital commanded by Major M W Kerin. Dateline Durban, 04 Oct The Secunda, from India, arrived at 5 am with 32nd Battery, FA, 180 men and 6 15-pounders. Also Veterinary -Captain Newson and 22 men.
Dateline Durban, 05 Oct The following are due here shortly: From Bombay - Vadala and Woira with 19/Hussars Valitana and Sirsa with 2/Gordons Wardha, Narrung and Lindula with 9/Lancers Noushesa with an ammunition column Patiala, Nwrosa and Virawa with 5/DG From Calcutta - Nivrana with transport animals Henzada with Ord. Fld. Dep. Nerbudda with relief mules Sirdbana and India with Gloucester Regiment
Dateline Durban, 06 Oct 5 transports with troops from India have arrived, namely: Sutlej with half the Devons Purnea with 885 KRR Booldana with 53rd Field Btry. , 280 men and 160 horses Pandua with part of the 19/Hussars will not land her but sent along to Cape Town City of London with remainder of the Devons Among the arrivals were Sir Archibald Hunter, Colonel Woolfe Murray.
Dateline Durban, 07 Oct 2 Transports arrived today: Ellora with 18th and 24th Batteries (?) Field Hospital, Major Porter commanding Vadaila with "C” 19/Hussars, Major Apthorp commanding, 209 horses and 12 mules.
p8 The Gaul landed the Northumberland Fusiliers at Cape Town, Saturday. Officers are listed: Lieutenant Colonel C G C Money, CB, commanding; Majors Hon. C Lambton, DSO, and E W Dashwood, Ray; Captains E B Eager, C E Keith Falconer, C H L James, D Sapte, R H Isacke, and F C Ferguson; Lieutenants A J B Percival, C E Fishbourne, H T Crispin, C A Armstrong, F Bevan, H T Buckley, H G Lynch-Staunton, F Bevan, H C Hall, H S Toppin (Tappin), R CB Lethbridge, A C Girdwood, F L Festing, and F R Coates, R W N Brine; C W Brown and St. J E Montagu; Lieutenant and Quartermaster J Bett. Other Corps – Lieutenant Colonels J Sherston, DSO, Staff, and J Stoneham, ASC; Captain E J Ward, ASC, Lieutenant C E Pigott, ASC, Captain A K Seccombe, ASC,; Lieutenants D C E Grose, ASC, F B Lord, ASC, C E I McNalty, ASC, and F F Duffus, ASC; C R Law, ASC, M Cairns, ASC, G Macfarlane, ASC, and W English, ASC
London Times, 12 Oct 99. p5a Dateline Durban Oct10. The transport Nairung has arrived here with the 2nd squadron. of the 9th Lancers. The Nowshera with the remainder of the 9th Lancers has arrived.
London Times, 13 Oct 99. p5a Dateline Durban Oct 11. The transport Lindula has arrived with a squadron of the 5th DG from India.
London Times, 14 Oct 99. p7a Dateline Durban Oct12. The transport Avoca arrived this morning with The Royal Irish Fusiliers. The Avoca has brought details of the Gordons and Gloucester Regiment, a total of 1100 men. The transport Nevada has now arrived.
p9c The government has chartered the Houlder Brother’s ship Langton Grange. The Cunard Liner Pavonia sailed at 5 o’clock this afternoon for Southampton and will there embark troops. The Montezuma is to leave New Orleans on the 18th, and will have between 2,000 and 3,000 mules on board. Messrs Elder, Dempster’s steamer Arawa left Avonmouth yesterday for London and there will be taking out officers and men to SA The Transport Department of the Admiralty has chartered 12 steamships to transport Sir Redvers Buller’s army corps, with stores and munitions for Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Natal and Durban. The following vessels will be ready after 20 Oct to embark troops and horses: Nubia, Gascon, Goorkha, Malta, Pavonia, Oriental, Hawarden Castle, Armenian, Nomadic, America, and Aurania.
London Times, 16 Oct 99, p5b Dateline Durban Oct12 The transport Nevada brought a field hospital and an ammunition column. Dateline Durban Oct 14 The transport Wardha, which left here for the Cape Town with a portion of the 9th Lancers on board has returned here. She encountered a gale off East London and was considerably damaged and lost nearly 100 horses. The men have been transferred to the Avoca and the Nevada and will proceed to Cape Town this afternoon. The transports Gaul from Southampton with 31st Company ASC and the India and Henzada from India with the Gloucester Regiment and an ordnance field depot, and medical staff have arrived. p5e Dateline Cape Town Oct 12. The transport Nairrung with a portion of the 9th Lancers on board has arrived. The troops brought by the Powerful from Mauritius have been landed. p6a Dateline Wellington, Oct14. The New Zealand military contingent for SA sails on the 21st inst. Dateline Hobart, Oct 14 Arrangements are being completed for sending 125 infantry from Tasmania to the Cape. The contingent will sail on the Medic. p6c Dateline Chicago, Oct 14 Four men are endevouring to raise a regiment composed of Irishmen, Dutchmen, and Germans to fight for the Transvaal. p7d The following transports will leave Royal Albert Docks, Woolwich on the dates mentioned: Manila, 17th inst. ; Malta, 20th inst. ; Oriental, 20th, and the Nomadic on the 21st. The chartered steamship Moor will be ready at Southampton on 21 Oct for embarkation of officers and men of the ASC for Natal. Messrs. Ismay, Imrie, and Company have received a request from the Government of Victoria for the services of their liner Medic, now at Melbourne, to convey the colonial contingent, some 600 infantry and cavalry with their horses to the Cape. The troops consist of units from Victoria, and South and West Australia. The steamer is being fitted and is expected to sail about Oct 20. Messrs. Houlder Brothers, have received information that their steamer Southern Cross left Gibraltar at 4:30 yesterday with 680 mules for the Cape. Messrs. Elder, Dempster’s steamer Arawa has been engaged by the Government and has left Avonmouth for London. A Reuter telegram, dated Naples, Oct 14, states that British officers have been there for some time engaged in buying mules for SA 1,500 have already been shipped and more are following.
London Times, 17 Oct 99. (CHART #1) p10c. The following programme of embarkation has been issued from the War Office:
p10e The vessels with officers and troops allotted them are as follows:
The Transport Department of the Admiralty has chartered 15 more ships for transport of troops and supplies to SA They will be ready after Oct 23. They are: City of Cambridge, Orient, German, Servia, Orcana, Mongolian, Kildonan Castle, Jamaican, Siberian, City of Vienna, Cephalonia, Catalonia, and Mohawk.
London Times, 18 Oct 99 p10c The Atlantic Transport Company (Ltd. ) have offered to the Government the gratuitous use of their steamship Maine as a hospital ship for so long as the war may continue. The Government has accepted.
Cape Times Weekly Edition, 18 Oct 99 p3 Dateline Simon’s Town, 11 Oct The Powerful landed 200 troops brought from Mauritius at Cape Town. Dateline Tuli, 12 Oct Colonels Plumer and Bodle left here last night for Rhode’s Drift.
p4 Here, a very long list of Volunteer units called out with a list of their officers: Prince Alfred’s Own Cape Artillery Majors F W Devine, T J J Inglesby, Captains A McCleod (attached) & Qm W E Thomas, Lieutenants R Janisch, F R Day, Chaplain Dean. Cape Garrison Artillery Lieutenant Colonel A P de Villers, Captains F G Myburgh, H Clarke, P C van B Bam, T E Lawton, W A Russell, Lieutenants J Sampson, A D A Borcherds, H Brown, 2/Lieutenants J Lyle, K H M Veale, W J A E Horne, C C Chase, C Gutsche, C P Smuts, N A N Black, D McCarthy, C E Kidger, Adjutant-Captain D F H Logan, Paymaster, Hon. Lieutenant J J B Proctor, Major J H Walker (attached), Surgeon-Captain J Hewat (attached). Frontier Mounted Rifles. (Cathcart). Major J H R Hart, Captains W H Phillips, J W Pinnoy, W M Borcherds, Lieutenants U P Estmant, B J Krog, E A Blunden, 2/Lieutenants A Milford, F J Fuller, F M de Cerjat, Surgeon-Captain Q R Veitch, Reverend G H P Jacques. Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Rifles ( Cape Town ) Lieutenant Colonel W A Spence V D, Major H Woodhead, Captains H M Beatty, W V Simkins, C C H Brown, F M S Pennell, R A Hemmena, J Mansfield, F Charnock, F W F Johnson, Lieutenants J A Williams, A Leeson-Prince (22nd Middlesex, attached), 2/Lieutenants H F Spence, R H C Vance, W F Tewson, A H M Cramer, Adjutant-Major J Lewis, Commissariat Officer Major and Hon. Lieutenant Colonel H G Daniell, V D, Paymaster-Captain J Art, Quartermaster-Captain A S Harker. Cape Town Highlanders. Lieutenant Colonel B M Duff, V D, Captains W Jardine, W J Robertson, J H H Watermeyer, F H Solomon, Lieutenants H G Berghuys, J P Edwards, G Scott, L S Meintjes, J Grant, 2/Lieutenants T Mackenzie, W H Hore, J V M Watermeyer, Acting Adjutant-Major W Standford, Commissariat Captain J Forrest, Paymaster-Captain T W Cairncross, Quartermaster-Captain G A Scott, Reverend J M Russell. First City Graham’s Town Volunteers. Major H T Tamplin, Captains G Marshall, E G A Booth, 2/Lieutenant Hon. A L Lindsay, Adjutant and Captain F A Saunders, Surgeon-Captain T G Greenlees, Reverend W H Turpin. Kaffrarian Rifles (East London). Captains H B Cumming, A R Barnes, R H Price, 2/Lieutenants E S Williams, C D Wakefield, J W McLean, Pay. -Captain A M Street, Quartermaster Hon. Lieutenant J R Cowie, Surgeon-Captain W Darley-Hartley, Reverend A Grant. Prince Albert’s Volunteer Guard (Port Elizabeth). Major G C S Clarke, Captains H W Court, J C Uppleby, A P J Wares, G F Hoy, 2/Lieutenant F W Leeds, Chaplain and Hon. Major A T Wirgman, V D, Surgeon-Lieutenant H B Slater. Cape Medical Staff Corps (B Company) Surgeon-Major J H Cox, Quartermaster Hon. Captain W Dawson.
p8 Dateline Lourenco Marques, Oct 10. H M S Philomel is waiting to intercept the German liner Kanzler looking for ammo. Dateline Delagoa Bay, Oct 9. The Philomel intercepted the Guelph and ammo. consigned to Delagoa Bay was landed at Durban. Dateline Lourenco Marques, Oct 11. French shipments of ammo were stopped when German cargoes were detained.
London Times, 19 Oct 99 p6b & 6c The following additions to the programme of embarkations were received at the War Office yesterday: SS Mongolian, Glasgow, Oct21 (17) 2/Seaforth Highlanders; #8 Company RAMC (a) and #4 Stationary Hospital (b). SS Orient, Tilbury Dock, Oct 22 (24) 2/Royal Highlanders; MI, Staff, 2nd Cavalry Brig. ; Northern Company MI; Western Company MI; Machine Gun Section; Detachment #3 Company RAMC(c) SS City of Vienna, Victoria Dock, Oct 22 (36) Staff 1st Cavalry Brig. ; 12th Lancers(d); #9 Company RAMC(e). SS Mohawk, West India Dock, Oct 22, (33) 12th Lancers; #9 Company RAMC(f). SS Siberian, Glasgow, Oct 21 & Queenstown Oct 24 (46) H Q 14th Hussars;A Squad. 14th Hussars; Det #4 Stationary Hospital(g). SS Jamaican, Liverpool, Oct 21, & Queenstown Oct 23. (37) B Squad. 14th Hussars & #19 Company Field Hospital RAMC(h) SS City of Cambridge, Glasgow, Oct 23 (15) 2/Scottish Rifles; Detachment #8 Company RAMC(i) SS America, Tilbury Dock, Oct 24 (32) R Batty RHA,; 1st Cavalry Bde, Amm Colonel; Field Troop(j), RE, Detachment #9 Company RAMC SS Cephalonia, Southampton, Oct 24 (19) 4th Bde. Staff; 1/Durham Light Infantry ; #3 Company RAMC(k); Dublin Company MI; Eastern Company MI; Machine Gun Sect. ; #6 Company RAMC; Details AOC Woolwich. SS German, Southampton, Oct 27 (Frt) 1/Rifle Brig. ; Detachment #3 Company RAMC(l); 26th Field Company RE; 1st Field Park RE SS Orcana, Liverpool, Oct 23 & Queenstown Oct 25 (40) 1/Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders; Det #8 Company RAMC(m). Servia, Liverpool, Nov 2, Queenstown, Nov 4 (31) 3/KRRC; #14 Company (Field Hosp. )& # 14 Company (Bearer Co) RAMC; #2 Stationary Hospital(n). SS Kildonan Castle, Southampton, Oct29 (44) 1/Welsh Regiment; 2/Northumberland Fusiliers; #3 Stationary Hospital; #2 General Hospital(o); Regiment Staff, Corps Troops, Engineers; A Pontoon Troop, RE; 1st Balloon Sect., RE SS Catalonia, Liverpool, Nov 3, Queenstown, Nov 5. (21) 5th Bde. Staff(p); 1/Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; Detachment #16 Company RAMC (a) Detachments in SS City of Cambridge, and SS Orcana (b) Detachment in SS Siberian (c) H Q in SS Cephalonia (d) H Q (e) H Q in SS Mohawk (f) Detachments in SS Nomadic and SS City of Vienna. (g) H Q in SS Mongolian (h) H Q in SS Gascon
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