PITTS, J,
Private, served in the South African War of 1899-1902, and was awarded the
Victoria Cross [London Gazette, 26 July 1901]: "J Pitts, Private, 1st
Battalion The Manchester Regiment. Private R Scott and Private J
Pitts. During the attack on Caesar's Camp, in Natal, on the 6th January
1900, these two men occupied a sangar, on the left of which all our men had
been shot down and their positions occupied by Boers, and held their post
for fifteen hours without food or water, all the time under an extremely
heavy fire, keeping up their fire and a smart look-out, though the Boers
occupied some sangars on their immediate left rear. Private Scott was
wounded". Private Pitts became a Lance-Corporal, Army Reserve.
