Shipping records - October 1900

London Times, 01 Oct 00 (Monday)

p3f Dateline Cape Town, Sep 30. The Idaho sailed today with 400 men of the Canadian Contingent on their way home. She also carried a number of Boer prisoners from Simons Town for St Helena.

p4b The Trojan left for England on Sep 24 with sick and wounded. The following were listed:

1/Cameron Highlanders – Captain Adlercron, in charge.

1/Royal Irish Regiment – Captain Welsh

2/Shropshire Light Infantry – QM Forrest

1/A & S Highlanders – Lieutenant Clarke

Rifle Brigade – Captain M Clarke

2/Yorkshire Light Infantry – Lieutenant Simpson

Imperial L H – Lieutenant Winthrop

Civil Surgeon Robertson

Sick laying down, 35; convalescent, 32

For Duty on Voyage–

RAMC – Sergt. Turner

Scottish Red Cross Soc. – Professor Clarke

Civil Surgeons – Gowan, Garron & Aitken

Nursing Sisters – Shannon, Alexander, Trout, Murdoch, Bulmer, Thompson, Cole & Storil.

London Times, 02 Oct 00 (Tuesday)

Note here Dateline Lorenzo Marques, Oct 1. page 3, col. 2. The Austrian Lloyd steamer Styria sailed today with 400 refugees from the Transvaal including Italians and members of the Irish-American and French contingents. Their expenses are paid by the Transvaal government. The men were given 30s and will be paid £8 10s on landing.

p5a The Montrose left for England on Sep 21 with sick & wounded. The following were listed:

RFA – Major Lawrie, in charge.

2/Lincolnshire Regiment – Captain Gaitskell

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenants Throgmorton, Ryan, & Brodrick

2/Gordon Highlanders – Captain Meiklejohn

RAMC – Major Drury

3/Royal Scots – Major Dundas

4/Scottish Rifles – Captain Burns-Macdonald

3/Royal Lancaster Regiment – Captain Vane

Sick laying down, 39; convalescent 461

Wounded laying down, 1; convalescent, 123

For Duty on Voyage –

RAMC – Major Trevor

Civil Surgeon Pardby

Nursing Sisters Banks & Tasbuck

On passage home –

Victorian M I – Lieutenant Dalrymple

East Lancashire Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Cotter

Tasmanian M I – Lieutenant Forster

Civil Surgeons Craley and Wood

Civil Veterinary Surgeons Black and Towers

London Times, 03 Oct 00 (Wednesday)

p3c Dateline Buenos Ayres, )ct. 2. The Rippingham Grange sailed today for Cape Town with 950 horses.

p4a & b The hospital ship Dunera left for England September 26 with sick & wounded. The following were listed:

RAMC – Major Holt, in charge.

2/Berkshire Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Merton

5/DG – 2nd Lieutenant Parker

Worcestershire Regiment – Captains Bucknall & Hobson

1/Durham Light Infantry – Lieutenant Colonel Woodland

RE – Lieutenant Douglas

Rifle Brigade – Lieutenant Colonel Metcalfe

Imperial L H – Surgeon-Major Davies

Transvaal Constabulary – Lieutenant Howell

South African L H (late) – Captain Scott-Harven

Imperial Yeomanry – Captain Baker, Lieutenant Kirkby

2/Wiltshire Regiment – Colonel Carter

RFA – Lieutenant Hon. Russell

2/Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry – 2nd Lieutenant Kirk

2/Middlesex Regiment – Captain Haviland

Royal Irish Fusiliers – Lts Kentish & Holmes

Rifle Brigade – Lieutenant Blewitt

Lord Lovat’s Corps – Lieutenant Brodie

Veterinary Dept. – Civil Veterinary Surgeon G Douglas

RN – Commander De Horsey

Sick laying down, 95; convalescent, (?)

Wounded laying down, 12; convalescent, 9

The hospital ship Avoca, from sa, arrived at Southampton yesterday with 18 officers and 259 men. Of note Corporal Killock, 5/DG was one of the invalids.

Cape Times Weekly Edition, 03 Oct 00

p11 The Idaho left Sunday with members of the Canadian contingent.

London Times, 04 Oct 00 (Thursday)

p10b The Carisbrook Castle left for England, September 26, having on board the following on passage home:

CIV– Colonel Earl of Albemarle

Brabant’s Horse – Major Owen, Lieutenant Turner

Imperial Yeomanry – Captain Sheriffe, Lieutenant Hon. Victor Gibson, 2nd Lieutenant Levita

Highland Light Infantry – Captain Wyndham

Reserve of Officers – Captain Dormer

4/King’s Royal Rifles – Major Montague Stuart-Wortley

2/DG – Major Fanshawe

RAMC – Lieutenant J W Smith (attached)

London Times, 05 Oct 00 (Friday)

p5a The Buluwayo left for England, September 27 with the following passengers and sick and wounded:

New South Wales Contingent, Staff – Lieutenant Colonel Bayly, in charge.

Sick & Wounded –

Reserve of Officers – Captain Barry

2/East Kent Regiment – Lieutenant Greatwood

RGA – 2nd Lieutenant ( ? Lieutenant ) Crozier

1/Highland Light Infantry – 2nd Lieutenant Campbell

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenant Maitland-Wilson

3/Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry – 2nd Lieutenant Barrow

RE – 2nd Lieutenant Newcombe

2/Norfolk Regiment – Lieutenant Done

1/KOSB – Lieutenant Hannay

ASC – Quartermaster Wallace

Imperial L H – Captain Johnstone

6/Lancashire Fusiliers – Lieutenant Easton

RAMC – Civil Surgeon Miller

On Passage Home –

RA – Lieutenant Colonels Watson & Aylmer

4/Cheshire Regiment – Captain Dunn-Gardner

10th Hussars – Captain Waite

2/Gloucestershire Regiment – Captain Drummond

1/Scots Fusiliers – Lieutenant Macnaghten

1/DG – 2nd Lieutenant Brocklebank

RGA – 2nd Lieutenant H W Smith

RFA – Major Askwith

4/Royal Fusiliers – Captain Fitzclarence

1/Volunteer Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment – Captain Butler

1/Royal Lancaster Regiment – 2nd Lieutenants Weatherhead & Conran

4/Warwickshire Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Hodgson

Imperial Yeomanry – Colonel Ridley, Major Jenkinson, & Lieutenants Ashley & Hill

Chaplains’ Dept. – Reverends Hayward & Fortin

1/Royal Irish Rifles – Lieutenants Rodney & Bowen-Colthurst

RAMC – Civil Surgeons Barras & McKitchen

Langham’s Hospital – Dressers Bolton & Turle

London Times, 06 Jan 00 (Saturday)

p8a & b The hospital ship Kildonan Castle, with invalids and wounded, arrived in the river at Southampton on Thursday night and docked at noon yesterday. The delay was caused by 4 cases of smallpox, which were removed to the isolation hospital ship. She had on board 76 officers and 1,415 men. The following were listed:

R M Light Infantry – Colonel Adair, Staff, in charge.

Sick and Wounded –

7/DG – Captain Bramstom-Newman, Lieutenant Cholmley

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenant Colonel Younghusband, Majors De Freville & Coke, Captains Sir Dickson-Poynder & Simpson & Lieutenants Lord Kesteven & Mitchell

1/Royal Sussex Regiment – Captain Mackenzie, 2nd Lieutenant Leachman

1/A & S Highlanders – Lieutenant Colonel Wilson

Dublin Fusiliers – Lieutenant Taylor

6/Lancashire Fusiliers – Captain De Pentheny-O’Kelly

RAMC – Lieutenant Colonel Falvey, Lieutenant McLoughlin

Nursings Sisters – E Cruickshank, L D Hill, & A N Bowles

Marshall’s Horse – Lieutenant Hall

Civil Surgeon – F R Stewart

Royal Scots Greys – Lieutenant Hon. R H Lindsay

RFA – Major Lindsay, 2nd Lieutenant Turner

1/Suffolk Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Sinnett

2/Bedford Regiment – Captain Nicholl

2/Royal Irish Regiment – Lieutenant Fitzhugh

2/Royal Highlanders – Lieutenant Innes

2/Wiltshire Regiment – Major Stock

1/Munster Fusiliers – 2nd Lieutenant Conway

3/East Lancashire Regiment – Lieutenant Toller

ASC – Major Humphreys, Quartermaster Richardson

Militia Medical Staff Corps – Surgeon-Captain O’Connor

Imperial Bushmen – Captain Ingoldby, Lieutenant Davies

N Z M I – Captain Hutson

Bombay Lancers – Lieutenant Williams

Sick laying down, 127; convalescent, 899

Wounded laying down, 47; convalescent, 73

For Duty on Voyage –

Civil Surgeons – F Faulkner & J Thwaite

Nursing Sisters – B F Jones & F M Williams

Chaplains – Reverends W S Swaine, REVernon, Hanson, & H McCarten

On Passage Home –

Royal Fusiliers – Colonel Townshend

3/DG – Lieutenant Simpson & 2nd Lieutenant Springfield

RGA – 2nd Lieutenant Wylde

3/West India Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Baggally

4/Worcester Regiment – Captain Ruxton

RFA – Major Goff

2/Northumberland Fusiliers – Captain Lynch-Staunton & Quartermaster Bett

South Staffordshire Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Hore

2/Yorkshire Regiment – Lieutenant Raymond

Seaforth Highlanders – Lieutenant Radclyffe

Royal Scots – Lieutenant Colonel Morgan-Payler

4/DG – 2nd Lieutenant Holford

2/Liverpool Regiment – Captain Parmiter

Irish Guards – 2nd Lieutenant Lord Kingston

Imperial Yeomanry – Colonels Brookfield & St Quintin, Lieutenants Lord Milton, Hilliard, Selby & Lowndes, Captain Vidler (RAMC)

2/Durham Light Infantry – Lieutenant Ainsworth

Queensland M I – Major Rankin

2/Essex Regiment – Captain Chawner

Civil Veterinary Surgeon Germyn

p16a & b Gazette, Fri. Oct5. Captain Vandeleur bt. Major Irish Guards. Major Monck, CG, appt. DAAG

London Times, 08 Oct 00 (Monday)

p5e Dateline Cape Town, Oct 7. The transport Aurania left here with the CIVon board at 5 30 pm.

p6b The Aurania, with the City Imperial Volunteers on board, is expected to leave Cape Town for Southampton with a call at St Vincent.

London Times, 09 Oct 00 (Tuesday)

p5a The Aurania has on board 51 officers and 1,284 men of the CIVis expected at Southampton on Oct 27.

London Times, 10 Oct 00 (Wednesday)

p3d Dateline St Helena, Oct 9. 189 Boer prisoners were landed yesterday from the Idaho and were sent on to Deadwood.

p5a The hospital ship Spartan left for England October 3 woth sick & wounded. The following were listed:

1/Connaught Rangers – Colonel Brooke, in charge

1/Royal Scots – Lieutenant Bourne

AOD – Lieutenant Lee

2/Northamptonshire Regiment – Lieutenant Disney-Roebuck

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenants Hopkinson, Gurney & Cole

1/Royal Warwickshire Regiment – Captain Toogood

Garrison Artillery – Captain Ellershaw

4/ A & S Highlanders – 2nd Lieutenant Campbell

Sick laying down, 15; convalescent 81.

Wounded laying down, 9; convalescent 3.

For duty on Voyage –

Civil Surgeons Pasley, P J Suffied & F E Freemantle

Nursing Sisters R G Rolleston, A A C Higgs, M E Powell, G F Hodge, A L Penrose, & C L Cash.

Cape Times Weekly Edition, 10 Oct 00 Nothing Noted

London Times, 11 Oct 00 (Thursday)

p5a The Saxon left for England, October 3, having the following on board:

11th Hussars – 2nd Lieutenant Earl of Cardigan

8th Hussars – Captain Sandwith

1/Derby Regiment – Lieutenant Watson

Kaffrarian Rifles – Captain Farmer

Imperial Yeomanry – Colonels Deane & Lucas, Lieutenant Lucas

RE – Major Crompton

Chaplain Reverend H Coney

Royal Scots Fusiliers – Lieutenant Vaughan

3/Durham Light Infantry - Captain Briggs.

Lincoln Regiment – Lieutenant Tatchell

RAMC – Civil Surgeons Collier, Tyrne, Thomas, Mills, Roberts, Professor Hughes, Major McMunn

London Times, 12 Oct 00 (Friday) Nothing this issue.

London Times, 13 Sep 00 (Saturday)

p13a Quoted

"Orders have been given by the War Office for 2,705 officers and men, in reinforcing drafts for corps in South Africa, to be despatched in two transports to Cape Town. The Kildonan Castle, leaving Southampton on Wednesday, is to take 2,057 in drafts for the Inniskilling Dragoons, Royal Artillery, 2nd North Staffordshire, 1st Leinster, 14th Hussars (171 officers and men), 2nd Devonshire (432), 2nd Somersetshire Light Infantry, 1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 2nd Gloucestershire (229), 1st South Staffordshire, 2nd Royal West Surrey (257), 2nd Northamptonshire (225), 2nd South Wales Borderers, and 1st Welsh. The Armenian, tentatively appointed to go from Tilbury on October 20, is to take 648 in drafts for the Scots Greys (157 officers and men), 5th Lancers, 9th Lancers (141), 18th Hussars (184), and 19th Hussars. The Avoca, hospital ship, is to start from Southampton on Thursday, and the Dunera, hospital ship, from the same port probably on October 30, both going to Cape Town for orders.”

Dateline Colombo, Sep 22. 6 transports have arrived from South Africa with prisoners of war for Celon and altogether a total of 3,886 have been sent to Diyatalawa. 260 are due to arrive here Sep 24 by the City of Vienna

Note here. Letter from a trooper in Brabant’s horse refuting charges against the unit.

London Times, 15 Oct 00 (Monday) Nothing of note.

London Times, 16 Oct 00 (Tuesday)

p3d The hospital ship Nubia arrived at Cape Town from Durban with sick and wounded on the 14th. The hospital ship Simla left St Vincent for Cape Town on the 13th. The Templemore, from Table Bay, the Harwarden Castle, from Malta, and the City of Vienna arrived at Natal on the 14th.

p4a The hospital ship Trojan arrived at Plymouth yesterday morning with 77 invalids from South Africa. She also brought home 136 passengers including the majority of the Scottish National Hospital under charge of Mr H E Clark. The following invalids were listed:

1/Cameron Highlanders – Captain Adlercron

Royal Irish Regiment – Captain Welch

2/Shropshire Light Infantry – Quartermaster Forrest

1/A & S Highlanders – Lieutenant Clarke

Rifle Brigade – Captain Clarke

2/Yorkshire Light Infantry – Lieutenant Simpson

Imperial L H – Lieutenant Winthrop, & Trooper Holmes

Civil Surgeon Robertson

London Times, 17 Oct 00 (Wednesday) Nothing of note.

Cape Times Weekly Edition, 17 Oct 00

p2 Dateline Durban, Oct 11. The Englishman sailed for England today with 500 invalids and 40 details. The Dilwara has sailed with details. The Nubia has sailed with 275 invalids.

p8 Dateline Durban, Oct 15. The Hawarden Castle arrived Saturday from London via Suez, with 416 troops. The Templemore arrived yesterday with 269 troops from Queenstown and the City of Vienna, from Colombo with 7 officers and 75 troops and 1 Boer officer and 4 Boer prisoners.

London Times, 18 Oct 00 (Thursday)

p5a The Aurania left Cape Town for England on October 7, having on board 49 officers, 2 warrant officers, 1,284 men of the CIVand also:

RFA – Maj Robinson

RHA – Major Gray

RA – Captain Haycock

4/DG – 2nd Lieutenant Robertson

4/Lancashire Fusiliers – 2nd Lieutenant Marriott

4/ A & S Highlanders – Major Cochrane

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenant Watt

Rhodesian Regiment – Lieutenant Montmorency

Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry – Colonel Martyr

For duty on Voyage – Reverends S E Smith and Liddell; Nursing sisters Pope & Pughe

p5c The Kildonan Castle left Southampton yesterday for South Africa with 63 officers, 4 nursing sisters, 20 warrant officers, and 1,748 men. The drafts included one officer and 90 men of the 2nd North Staffordshire Regiment, 1 officer and 430 men of the North Devonshire Regiment, 74 men of the 2nd Somersetshire Light Infantry, 1 officer and 257 men of the 3rd Royal West Surrey Regiment, 2 officers and 225 men of the 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment, 1 officer and 120 men of the 2nd South Wales Borderers, 2 officers and 151 men of the 1st Welsh Regiment Colonel Lindsell, 2nd Gloucestershire Regt, in command. The ship will call at Queenstown for 8 officers and 376 men.

London Times, 19 Oct 00 (Friday)

p8b & c The Britannic left Cape Town for England on October 6, with invalids and passengers. RA – Colonel Rainsford-Hannay, in charge. The following were listed:

Sick and Wounded:

7/DG – Captain Haig

2/Hampshire Regiment – Quartermaster Andrews

1/A & S Highlanders – 2nd Lieutenant Henderson

RAMC – Lieutenant- Colonel Irvine

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenant Graham

Brabant’s Horse – Lieutenant Richards

Roberts’s Horse – Captain Neale

Cameron Highlanders – Major J Campbell

Canadian Nursing Service – Nursing Sister M L Horne

2/Royal Fusiliers – Captain Wright

2/Royal West Kent Regiment – Captain Montgomery-Campbell

3/West Riding Regiment – Captain Goldie

Cape G A – Lieutenant Colonel De Villiers

N S W Bushmen – Captain Machattie

ASC – QM Evans

BSAP – Lieutenant Tomlinson

N Z Rough Riders – Major Francis

N Z Nursing Service – Nursing Sister M E Warmington

Nursing Sisters E Nixon & C Bainbridge

Sick laying down, 60; convalescent 395

Wounded laying down, 10; convalescent, 128

For Duty on Voyage –

Reverend J Benoy

Nursing Sisters McCall, Anderson, Monson, Tucker, Pryde, Shore, & Rogers

Civil Surgeons S W Richardson, J H Harvey & A H Edwards

On passage home –

1/Gloucester Regiment – Captain Conner

RFA – Majors Sandilands & Kilner

Staff – Colonel Hegan

4/Lancashire Fusiliers – 2nd Lieutenant Luker

4/Highland Light Infantry – Captain Jarvie

2/East Yorkshire Regiment – Captain Unett

RE – Major Sinclair

3/DG – Lieutenant Burt

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenants Lord Norreys & Dodd

1/Hampshire Regiment – Captain Boucher

7th Hussars – Captain Wormald

The Kinfauns Castle left Cape Town for England on Oct 11, having the following on board:

RAMC – Major Reade & Civil Surgeons Laming, Evans & Day

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenant Colonel Burn, Majors Lord Dudley & Baird, Captains Banbury & Durham-Parker, & Lieutenants Burton & Stewart.

AOD – Major Sherwood

Reserve of Officers – Major Fraser

RFA – Captains Overton & Powell

Veterinary Dept. – Veterinary Surgeon Lieutenant Love

16th Lancers – Lieutenant Vander Byl

Staff – Maj Robertson

The Montrose, with invalids from South Africa arrived at Southampton yesterday bringing 22 officers and 720 men. The following were listed:

RFA – Major Lawrie, in charge.

2/Lincolnshire Regiment – Captain Gaitskell

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenants Throgmorton, Ryan, & Brodrick

2/Gordon Highlanders – Captain Meiklejohn, V C

RAMC – Major Drury

3/Royal Scots – Major Dundas

4/Scottish Rifles – Captain Burns Macdonald

3/Royal Lancaster Regiment – Captain Vane

For Duty on Voyage –

RAMC – Major Trevor

Civil Surgeon Pardby

Nursing Sisters Banks & Tasbuck

On passage home –

Victorian M I – Lieutenant Dalrymple

East Lancashire Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Cotter

Tasmanian M I – Lieutenant Forster

Civil Surgeons Craley and Wood

Civil Veterinary Surgeons Black and Towers

The hospital ship Dunera arrived at Plymouth yesterday with 23 officers and 275 men invalided home from South Africa.

2/Berkshire Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Marton

5/DG – 2nd Lieutenant Parker

Worcestershire Regiment – Captains Bucknall & Hobson

1/Durham Light Infantry – Lieutenant Colonel Woodland

RE – Lieutenant Douglas

Rifle Brigade – Lieutenant Colonel Metcalfe

Imperial L H – Surgeon-Major Davies

Transvaal Constabulary – Lieutenant Howell

South African L H (late) – Captain Scott-Harden

Imperial Yeomanry – Captain Paker, Lieutenant Kirkby

2/Wiltshire Regiment – Colonel Carter

RFA – Lieutenant Hon. B J Russell

2/Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry – 2nd Lieutenant Kirk

2/Middlesex Regiment – Captain Haviland

Royal Irish Fusiliers – Lts Kentish & Holmes

Rifle Brigade – Lieutenant Blewitt

Lord Lovat’s Corps – Lieutenant Brodie

Veterinary Dept. – Civil Veterinary Surgeon G Douglas

RN – Commander De Horsey

Of interest. I quote.

Invalided Colonial Soldiers

We have received the following from Lord Carrington: –

‘It has come to the knowledge of the Temporary Loan Fund for Wounded and Invalided Soldiers in England that convalescent members of the colonial contingents are being sent back to their respective colonies as steerage passengers in passenger steamships. Eleven colonial wounded soldiers having sailed from England on October 12 in the Royal Mail steamer Ormuz as steerage passengers, the Orient Company, with the sanction of the Lord Mayor, telegraphed to the commander of the Ormuz at Gibraltar to put these colonial convalescents on the dietary of the second saloon and allow them the second-class deck and comforts. Similar arrangements are being made with the Castle-Union Line to Cape Town and with the Canadian Dominion Line. It is felt that it would be within the province of the Imperial Government to arrange that these colonial Volunteers, many of whom are enteric patients requiring special care, should be despatched to their respective colonies in a manner more fitting their needs and condition. ’

London Times, 20 Oct 00 (Saturday)

p10a & b Lloyd’s Agent at St Vincent reports the arrival of the Aurania, October 19 at 6 55 am.

The Kildonan Castle left Southampton on Wednesday with 1,831 officers and men called at Queenstown and embarked 8 officers and 409 men. She left yesterday for South Africa.

London Times, 22 Oct 00 (Monday) Nothing here.

London Times, 23 Oct 00 (Tuesday)

p3f The transport Bulawayo, from Table Bay, arrived at Southampton on Sunday evening, and, after disembarking a few officers, left again yesterday morning for Newcastle.

The Britannic, with invalids from sa, is due at Southampton next Sunday.

p9b The Norman left for England on October 17 with the following officers on passage home:

Staff – Major-Gens. Hutton & Wavell, & Captain Lord Fincastle.

N S W M I – Captain Onslow

Royal Berkshire Regiment – Colonel Evans-Gordon

CG – Lieutenant Colonel Maxse

Kent Militia Artillery – Major Lord Athlumney

2/Berkshire Regiment – Captain Sir T Pasley

4/Royal Lancashire Regiment – Captain Barker

Royal Fusiliers – Captain Lascelles

RHG – 2nd Lieutenant the Duke of Westminster

Queensland M I – Lieutenant Fox

1/Royal Dragoons – Major Rogers

GG – Colonel Gordon-Lennox

Indian Staff Corps – Colonel Duff

South Staffordshire Regiment – Captain Davidson

Reserve of Officers – Captain J R Beech

KRR – Captain R P Cobbold

Imperial Yeomanry – Captain Humby

Machine Gun Battery – Lieutenant W Ruston Ross

Royal Irish Rifles – Lieutenant Rowan-Hamilton

The Englishman left for England on October 16 with the following on passage home:

RFA – Major Knox, in charge.

3/South Staffordshire Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Anderson

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenant Gillon

1/Royal Lancaster Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Milward

And the following invalids:

Wounded convalescent, 23

Sick laying down, 4; convalescent, 426

For duty on Voyage, Civil Surgeons W L Brown and M Brown

London Times, 24 Oct 00 (Wednesday)

p3f Note here: Major & Bt. Lieutenant Colonel F I Maxse, DSO, CG to DAAG also Captain & Bt. Major C F S Vandeleur, DSO, IG to DAAG

Cape Times Weekly Edition, 24 Oct 00

p2 Here "another " account of the happenings at Eland’s River. (PR, BSAP, SRV, RR, Bushmen)

p3 The following are booked on the Dunvegan Castle for home:

General Sir R Buller, Captain Chichester, Major General Sir H Chermside, Lieutenant Hon. Gavin Hamilton, Captain the Hon. St Aubyn, Lieutenant Philips, Captain Paget, Major J F Bagot, Captain Bissett, Colonel S H G Miles, Lieutenant T C Ward, Captain Trotter, Lieutenant Back, Comdr. Lees, R,N, Captain Piercy, Major Phillips, Lieutenant Colonel Wood, Colonel Parsons, Major Scofield, Colonel Stopford, Lieutenant Grimbley, Lieutenant Howard, Major Cayzer, Major Chichester, Major Jones, Captain Balfour, Lieutenant Du Pre, Lieutenant Gatacre, Captain MacEwen, Captain Stewart, Captain Hutton, Captain Sackville, Staff Sergeant-Major Savage, Staff Sergeant-Major Ogden, Captain Boger, and many civilians and dependants, wives, children.

p24 Dateline London, Oct 19. The Kildonan Castle sailed today for South Africa with upwards of 2,000 drafts.

London Times, 25 Oct 00 (Thursday)

p10b The Lake Erie left Cape Town for England on October 15 with the following:

2/Lincolnshire Regiment – Lieutenant Colonel Roberts, in charge.

2/Warwickshire Regiment – Captain Delacombe

1/Suffolk Regiment – Captain Brett

1/Derbyshire Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant James

2/Connaught Rangers – Captain Hog, Lieutenant Wickham

Remount Depot – Major Loyd

1/West Kent Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Parker

RN – Lieutenant Newman, Midshipman Cunningham, W/O Cannon

Reserve of Officers – Major Tremayne, Captain Bonham-Christie

2/Leicestershire Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Hunt

2/DG – 2nd Lieutenant Gaynor

N S W M R – Lieutenant Onslow

1/DG – 2nd Lieutenant Adam

RAMC – Civil Surgeons Roberts, Sheen, Rooke, & Ashdown

Imperial Yeomanry Hospital – Mr Catling, "X” rays expert

Army Nursing Dept. – Nursing Sisters O’Neal, Digwood, Johnstone, Beedie, Hyslop, & Rowell

The Tagus left Cape Town for England on October 21 with the following:

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenant Colonel Holland, in charge, Lieutenant Colonel St L Moore

ASC – Lieutenant Lord Graham

2/Derbyshire Regiment – Captain Pennell, V C

10th Hussars – Captain Sir. J Milbanke, V C

Colonel Cayley

Civil Surgeons Stirling, Watt, Kinmont, McIntyre, & Graves

Q M – Lee, Mr Ford

Sick laying down, 84; convalescent, 398

Wounded laying down, 16; convalescent, 35

London Times, 26 Oct 00 (Friday)

p8c The Nubia left Cape Town for England on October 15 with invalids. The following were listed:

RAMC – Major Burke, in charge.

5/DG – 2nd Lieutenant Fitzgerald

RFA – Captains Carey & Kelly

2/Royal Fusiliers – Captain North

1/Royal Irish Regiment – Captain Smyth

1/Royal Welsh Fusiliers – 2nd Lieutenant Bayly

2/Royal Irish Rifles – Lieutenant Wright

1/West Riding Regiment – Captain Behrend

ASC – Q M Stott

Kitchener’s Horse – Lieutenant Eriot

Bengal Lancers – Captain Maxwell

Militia Medical Staff Corps – Surgeon- Captain Steele

13th Hussars – Major Smithson & Lieutenant Lambert

1/Liverpool Regiment – Lieutenant Lardner

1/R Munster Fusiliers – Captain Macpherson

2/R Warwick Regiment – Lieutenant Clarke

1/A & S Highlanders – Captain Macdonald & Lieutenant Macarthur

Imperial Yeomanry – Major Ker-Fox, Captain Ewart, & Lieutenants Robin, Power, Aulton, Wilson, & Codrington

2/R W Kent Regiment – Captain Dalison

19th Hussars – Lieutenant Franks

3/W India Regiment – Captain Hutchinson

Intelligence Dept. – Major Gretton

For Duty on Voyage:

RAMC – Civil Surgeons J Dunn, G R Thomson, F B Cayley, W T Rowe & D N Greig

Army Chaplain Dept. – The Reverends J S Morris, & J E W Tuckey

Army Nursing Dept. – Nursing Sisters C K C Steele, M Atkinson, E Dawson, L Dale, E Laughton, L Basan, & B L Betty

Sick convalescent, 282

The Damascus left Cape Town for England on October 17 with the following:

N S W Contingent – Major Murray

Army Veterinary Dept. – Civil Veterinary Surgeon Fowler

RAMC – Civil Surgeons E D Hancock, H A J Fairbank, & Friel

The following vessels from Cape Town are now on their way to the ports indicated and due to arrive as stated:

The Idaho – Halifax, N S, 30 Oct part of the Canadian Contingent.

The Britannic – Southampton, 28 Oct, invalids & time expired.

The Guelph – Flushing, 29 Oct & East India Dock, 30 Oct, with “undesireables”

The Warrnambool – Victoria Dock, 1 Nov, with "undesireables”

The Kinfauns Castle – Southampton, 26 Oct, with "undesireables”

The Nubia – Southampton, 5 Nov, with invalids

The Persia – London, 6 Nov, with "undesireables”

The Lake Erie – Royal Albert Dock, 7 Nov, with time expired & cattlemen

The Norman – Southampton, 3 Nov, with details

The Englishman – Southampton, 12 Nov, with invalids, time expired, and cattlemen

The Ranee – Colombo, 2 Nov, with Boer prisoners and details for India & China

The Damascus – Plymouth, 6 Nov & Albert Docks, 7 Nov, with "undesireables” & details.

The Tagus – Southampton, 8 Nov, with the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital, invalids, time expired, & details

The hospital ship Spartan passed Portland Bill yesterday afternoon for Southampton.

London Times, 27 Oct 00 (Saturday)

p12b & c The Dunvegan Castle left Cape Town for England on October 24 with the following on passage home.

Reserve of Officers – Captain the Hon. E S St Aubyn, in charge. & Captain H K Stewart

Staff – General Sir R Buller, Major General Sir H Chermside, Colonels Miles, Stopford and Parsons, Lieutenant Colonel Wood, Majors Philips, Chichester, Jones, & Scofield, Captains Sackville-West, Stewart, Boger, Cayzer, Trotter, G Paget & Balfour, Lieutenant Howard & Lieutenant & Quartermaster Grimbley

6/R Warwick Regiment – Captain De Bathe

Cameron Highlanders – Captain MacEwen

2/Scots G – Lieutenant Shelley

1/R Scots – 2nd Lieutenant Ward

Imperial Yeomanry – Captain Piercy, Lts S Paget & Hodgson

1/Yorks Light Infantry – Lieutenant Gatacre

Also Re, Lieutenant Foulkes for Madeira en route for Sierra Leone.

The hospital ship Spartan landed at Southampton yesterday morning 10 officers and 103 invalided men.

London Times, 29 Oct 00 (Monday)

p7- Here is a large article on the arrival at Southampton, aboard the Aurania, of the CIV.

p7e The Britannic, from Cape Town, anchored at Southampton yesterday afternoon and will not land invalids until the CIVs depart for London.

London Times, 30 Oct 00 (Tuesday)

p5a The Britannic, arrived in Southampton waters Sunday and docked yesterday morning. The following were listed:

RA – Colonel Rainsford-Hannay, in charge

7/DG – Captain Haig

2/Hampshire Regiment – Quartermaster Andrews

1/A & S Highlanders – 2nd Lieutenant Henderson

RAMC – Lieutenant- Colonel Irvine

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenant Graham

Brabant’s Horse – Lieutenant Richards

Roberts’s Horse – Captain Neale

Cameron Highlanders – Major J Campbell

Canadian Nursing Service – Nursing Sister M L Horne

2/Royal Fusiliers – Captain Wright

2/Royal West Kent Regiment – Captain Montgomery-Campbell

3/West Riding Regiment – Captain Goldie

Cape G A – Lieutenant Colonel De Villiers

N S W Bushmen – Captain Machattie

ASC – QM Evans

BSAP – Lieutenant Tomlinson

N Z Rough Riders – Major Francis

N Z Nursing Service – Nursing Sister M E Warmington

Nursing Sisters E Nixon & C Bainbridge

For Duty on Voyage –

Reverend J Benoy

Nursing Sisters McCall, Anderson, Monson, Tucker, Pryde, Shore, & Rogers

Civil Surgeons S W Richardson, J H Harvey & A H Edwards

On passage home –

1/Gloucester Regiment – Captain Conner

RFA – Majors Sandilands & Kilner

Staff – Colonel Hegan

4/Lancashire Fusiliers – 2nd Lieutenant Luker

4/Highland Light Infantry – Captain Jarvie

2/East Yorkshire Regiment – Captain Unett

RE – Major Sinclair

3/DG – Lieutenant Burt

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenants Lord Norreys & Dodd

1/Hampshire Regiment – Captain Boucher

7th Hussars – Captain Wormald

The Kinfauns Castle has arrived at Southampton. The following were listed:

RAMC – Major Reade & Civil Surgeons Laming, Evans & Day

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenant Colonel Burn, Majors Lord Dudley & Baird, Captains Banbury & Durham-Parker, & Lieutenants Burton & Stewart.

AOD – Major Sherwood

Reserve of Officers – Major Fraser

RFA – Captains Overton & Powell

Veterinary Dept. – Veterinary Surgeon Lieutenant Love

16th Lancers – Lieutenant Van der Byl

Staff – Maj Robertson

p8 &9 More on the CIV return home.

London Times, 31 Oct 00 (Wednesday)

p8b The Dilwara left Cape Town for England on October 25. The following invalids were listed:

Staff – Lieutenant Colonel Ingefield, in charge. Brigadier General Little

2/Lincolnshire Regiment – Lieutenant Morant

1/R Welsh Regiment – Lieutenant Griffith

2/Hampshire Regiment – 2nd Lieutenant Falkner

RGA – Captain McMeekan

1/Yorkshire Regiment – Captain Maitland

2/Worcester Regiment – Captain Monro

2/R Irish Fusiliers – Major Hill

Imperial Yeomanry – Lieutenants Moncrief, Crane, & Elliott-Wood

N S W M R – Lieutenant Logan

Civil Veterinary Surgeon A L Farrant

Chaplain the Reverend H D Burton

Sick laying down, 50; convalescent 507

Wounded laying down, 19; convalescent, 52

The following were on passage home:

Indian Staff Corps – Captain Moberley

1/Life G – Lieutenant Colonel Calley

5/Liverpool Regiment – Lieutenant Chaffey

GG – Captain Ruggles-Brise

5th Lancers – Major Little

RN – Chief Engineer Chope

RAMC – Civil Surgeons F D Boyd, A H Watt, G L Chiene, J Miller, J McFarlane, G S Stoker, Coleman & Pounder; Dressers A C Balfour, H V Fletcher, H Gribben, W H Nutt, G Paulin, Edwards, Thomson, McIlwain, & Stewart

Welsh Hospital – Civil Surgeons Enrys & Roberts

Edinburgh Hospital – Sir W Thomson & Colonel Nixon

Nursing Sisters A W Gill, E J Cumming, J Cameron, A B Cameron, J Galloway, H G Miller, A M McDonnell & E Walker.

Cape Times Weekly Edition, 31 Oct 00 Nothing Noted