THE RECORD OF A REGIMENT OF THE LINE
BEING
A REGIMENTAL HISTORY OF THE 1ST BATTALION DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT DURING THE BOER WAR 1899-1902

By Colonel M Jacson
London: Hutchinson & Co.  Paternoster Row 1908

Preface by Lt Gen W Kitchener
I. Events leading up to the siege of Ladysmith
II. Siege of Ladysmith
III. Events following the siege of Ladysmith and the advance north under Sir Redvers Buller
IV. Lydenburg
V. Trekking in the north east Transvaal

Illustrations

Monument erected to officers and men of the Devonshire Regiment who fell on January 6th on Wagon Hill, siege of Ladysmith	En route to Ladysmith	In the trenches, Ladysmith	Town Hall, Ladysmith, clock-tower damaged by shell fire
After a wet night in the traverses, Ladysmith	The railway bridge, with Cæsar's Camp in distance, Ladysmith	Lt Colonel C W Park	Naval Battery Hill, Ladysmith
A peaceful Sunday	Devon officers remaining fit for duty at the end of the siege	Brigadier General Walter Kitchener	Railway bridge destroyed by Boers, Ingagane
Making barbed-wire entanglement, Ingagane	The baggage of General Buller's army crossing Beginderlyn Bridge	Trekking with General Buller	Devons crossing the Sabi River
Colonel C W Park, Mission Camp, Lydenburg	Wire bridge, Lydenburg	Mission camp fort, Lydenburg (interior)	Remains of Boer big gun, Waterval
Crossing the Steelport River	Dawn—after a night march, Trichardtsfontein	Devons en route to Durban	Monument erected in Ladysmith cemetery

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR

The story as told is an everyday account and a record of the work of the men of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the South African War.

It exemplifies the devotion to duty, the stubbornness in adversity, and the great fighting qualities of the West-country man, which qualities existed in the time of Drake, and which still exist.

A repeating of their history of the past, a record of the present, and an example for the generation to come.