Personalities, Surname D

Dalgety-Campbell, Dalgety Gordon, Hon Lieutenant NSW Forces

He was born at Sydney, NS Wales, 21 Oct 1877. He comes from an old Argyll and Aberdeenshire family, and is a cousin of Lady Trafalgar, who married the eldest son of the 3rd Earl Nelson in 1879. He is also cousin of Colonel Dalgety of Wepener fame. Mr Dalgety-Campbell was educated at Oxley College and Hawksbury Agricultural Colonel, NS Wales, and has had a varied career in Australia, China, Africa, and other parts of the globe. In early life he was for a short period in the Navy; he spent a short time with an exploring party in China; later on he was bookkeeper in a store in Parkes, NSW, and eventually went into the backblocks of Australia as a schoolmaster. A year later saw him as one of the best-known cross-country and steeplechase riders in the colony, at which he earned his living; he, however, abandoned this means of livelihood, and after engaging as a professional cycle rider, milkman, drover, fencer, and miner, he drifted into journalism. He was for some time editor of the Wyalong Advocate, published in a small township in NS Wales. When the Boer War broke out he went to Sydney, joined the NS Wales MI, and came to Africa as a trooper. He was severely wounded at Vet River, May 1, 1900. When Pretoria fell, he raced with Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent, to see who would be the first man to enter the capital. He reached the Artillery Barracks first, took possession, and when some hours later the troops entered Mr Campbell handed the barracks over to Major Marker, DSO of the Coldstream Guards, and ADC to Lord Kitchener. Among the prisoners in the barracks at the time were the famous Lieutenant Mike Du Toit, Major Erasmus, and Lieutenant Cordua, who was subsequently executed for being implicated in the attempt to kidnap Lord Roberts. At the hour of Mr Campbell's entry there were about 4,000 Boers in the town, guns, etc. At Diamond Hill, June 13, he was again severely wounded and invalided to Australia. Six months later be was again in SA, in command of a squadron of Mounted Rifles, retaining the command until peace was declared; after which he resigned his commission and was appointed as special travelling correspondent to the Leader. His articles ran in the Leader for weeks, and were noted for their fine descriptive power.  Subsequently Captain Campbell was appointed to the Central Repatriation Commission sitting in Johannesburg; he resigned this position and took over the editorship of the Gold Fields News, Barberton. From here he went to England on journalistic work, returned to the Transvaal to edit the Transvaal Advertiser, and since became election agent for Mr Abe Bailey. He married, in 1906, Miss Carrie Erskine.

Dalhousie, Earl of

He was born Sep 4, 1878, and is the son of the 13th Earl and Ida, daughter of the 6th Earl of Tankerville. He was formerly in the Scots Guards, with which he served in the Boer War 1901-2. He married in 1903, Lady Mary Adelaide Willoughby, the youngest of the six daughters of the Earl and Countess of Ancaster. Lord Dalhousie has one son, Lord Ramsay, who is heir to the Earldom and the large estates in Forfarshire and Midlothian, and one daughter.

Dalrymple, Captain Viscount, MP JP

He was the eldest son of the 11th Earl of Stair, was born in London, Feb 1, 1879. He was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, passing into the Scots Guards, Feb, 1898; Lieutenant, Oct, 1899; Captain June, 1903. He served in South Africa with the 1st Battalion Scots Guards from Jan, 1900, to July, 1902 (QSA, 5 clasps; KSA, 2 clasps). He is a member of the King's Bodyguard, Scottish Archers (1903), JP for Wigtownshire, and he was elected Conservative MP for Wigtownshire at the General Election in Jan, 1906. His recreations are shooting and fishing. He married, in Oct, 1904, Violet, daughter of Colonel Harford, of Down Place, late Scots Guards.

Dalrymple-Hamilton, Lieutenant Colonel Honourable N de C, Scots Guards. 

Entered 1871; Lieutenant Colonel, March 1900.  Staff service: Brigade Major Home District 1883-85; Brigade Major Guards Brigade, Suakin, 1885; Brigade Major Home District 1890; ADC to GOC, S District 1891-93; ADC to GOC, Aldershot, 1893-94.  War service: Egyptian Expedition (medal with clasp; bronze star; 5th class Medjidie); Sudan Expedition 1885, wounded (clasp); Boer War, 1899-1900; with Kimberley Relief Force; Belmont, seriously wounded.

Dalrymple-Hay, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J R M, West India Regiment, Commandant at Volksrust. 

Entered 21st Foot 1879.  Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, 1899.  Staff service: Garr.  Adjutant, Cape Coast Castle, 1889-90; Adjutant Volunteers 1891-96; Special Service, South Africa.  'War service: Boer War, 1881 (Despatches); W Africa, 1897-98 (Despatches; Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel); Operations in Sierra Leone, 1898-99 (medal with clasp): Boer War, 1899-1900; Special Service Officer; afterwards Station Commandant and District Commissioner.

Darley, Hon Sir Frederick Matthew, GCMG, KCMG, KB, PC

He was born in 1830, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed Chief Justice of New South Wales in 1886 and Lieutenant-Governor in 1891. He was a member of the Legislative Council of the Colony from 1868-86, and Vice-President of the Executive Council from 1881-83. In 1902 he was a member of the Boer War Commission. He was created Privy Councillor on the occasion of the King's birthday, 1905 He married, in 1860, Lucy, daughter of S Browne.

Darley-Hartley, Surgeon Captain William

William Hartley-Darley was born Sheffield in 1854. He was educated at Sheffield Grammar School and Guy’s Hospital and qualified as a M.D. and M.R.C.P. Settling in the Cape Colony in 1879, he practiced at East London, Cathcart and Cape Town. He served as Civil Surgeon in Gaika-Galeka and Zulu campaigns (medal and clasp), and as Surgeon Captain with the Kaffrarian Rifles in the Langebcrg campaign (medal), and as Civil Surgeon in the Boer War (King's and QSAs and clasps); is a life member of the Council of St John's Ambulance Association. He has also served as Town Councillor, East London, Past District Grand Warden of the Eastern district of the Masonic body; has taken great interest in the work of the English Church. Took part in the formation of the South African League, drafting its constitution and being elected its first President. In that capacity he addressed, in 1896, the huge meeting at Johannesburg which led to the formation of the League in that town; is senior Vice Chairman of the Cape Town Branch of the Imperial Union. Proprietor and editor of the South African Medical Record, and a member of the Cape Medical Council; President of the Cape Town Yorkshire and Lancashire Association, and a contributor to various South African papers. Recreation, poultry-keeping. He married, in 1879, Harriet, eldest daughter of H L Head, first Mayor of King Williamstown.

CGH GSM (1) Bech (Sur. Capt. W. Darley-Hartley, Kaff. Rif.).  DNW Dec 06 £600.

Dawkins, Sir Clinton Edward, KCB

He was born in 1859, and was the son of Clinton G A Dawkins, of the Foreign Office. He was educated at Cheltenham and at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1886 he was appointed Private Secretary to Lord Cross, Secretary of State, and three years later he succeeded Lord (then Mr) Milner as Private Secretary to Lord Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer. He represented the Peruvian Corporation in S America in 1891, and a few years later was appointed Under-Secretary for Finance in Egypt. Having performed that duty successfully, he was promoted to the post of Indian Minister of Finance. In 1900 he became a partner in the firm of J S Morgan and Company, and in the year following he became Chairman of the Committee of War Office Reorganisation; for his services in that capacity he was created a CB, and in the following year he received his knighthood. Sir Clinton Dawkins wrote an Appendix to Lord Milner's England in Egypt. He married, in 1885, Louise, daughter of Charles Johnston, and cousin of Mr Eustis, the first American who bore the title of Ambassador in Paris.  Died on Dec 2, 1905.

Davenport, Lieutenant Talbot Neville Fawsett, Royal Irish Rifles

Died in his twenty-seventh year in 1905, served in the Boer War with the MI.

Davies, Colonel W D

Of Johannesburg. 'Karri' Davies (as he is generally called) was one of the two Reform prisoners who, when the question of petitioning for some mitigation of their sentences was raised, consistently refused to sacrifice their self respect by making such a supplication to the Govt, which had treated them in what they deemed to he a dishonest and treacherous manner. Those only who can comprehend the terribly insanitary condition of a Boer gaol, where blacks and whites were huddled together as ordinary felons fed on the worst of fare, and continually subject to the harsh treatment of the gaolers, can appreciate fully such a sacrifice to principle when a word would have effected their release. He took part in the Boer War .

Deane, Colonel Thomas, CB

He was born in Dublin in 1841, and is son of S C Deane. He served in India with the King's Dragoon Guards, 21st Hussars, and the Viceroy's bodyguard, 16th Bengal Cavalry; he has acted as deputy secretary to the Government of India in the Military Secretariat, in which position he served for 13 years; he acted as Assistant Controller of Transport and Supply during the Afghan War, and was thanked by S of S for India for his services in the field; was director of the Army Remount Department in India for nearly ten years, and is now employed under the India Office to select and purchase in England horses for the Indian studs, being an authority on the selection of thoroughbred horses for stud purposes. Colonel Deane has seen service in South Africa in 1900-1, with the Imperial Yeomanry, when he commanded the depot of that force at Elandsfontein, and was employed for three years in connection with its organisation. His recommendations on remount organisation during the war were specially called attention to by the War Commissioners, and he has contributed many articles to the Press on military organisation. Recreations: Shooting, fishing, and theatricals. He married, in 1872, Jessie, daughter of Surg. General J Murray.

De Bucy, Marquess Sergius Mortimer Emmanuel Rouault de Longueville

Born in London, March 8, 1865 and is son of the tenth marquess. He was educated at Cambridge University and first went out to South Africa with Sir Chas. Warren's expedition to Bechuanaland in 1884-5. At the end of that time he proceeded up north on a hunting trip after big game until 1886. He joined the 12th Prince of Wales's Royal Lancers in 1887, took part in the Matabele Rebellion, and remained in Matabeleland attached to the Mounted Police until the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899. He served throughout the campaign as Major in the SA Field Force, and at the close of it he accompanied Colonel Owen Thomas on a special mission north of the Transvaal to report upon the possibilities of land settlement there. He has travelled and hunted in most parts of South Africa, from Bechuanaland to the East Coast, and along the Limpopo and Zambesi rivers.

De La Motte, Lieutenant Reginald Barker

Born August 19, 1879, and entered the Army Service Corps in 1902. He served in the Boer War in 1900-2 with the Imperial Yeomanry, being present at the operations in the Orange River Colony in 1901, and in the Cape Colony in 1902.

De La Pasture, Lieutenant Charles Edward

He was born Sep 15, 1879, and entered the Derby Regiment in 1900, subsequently changing into the Scots Guards. He served in the Boer War in 1901, and was awarded the QSA with clasp.

De La Poer Beresford, Captain Marcus John Barre

He was born April 10, 1868, and entered the South Wales Borderers as 2nd Lieut, in 1889. He served in the Boer War in 1900- 2, employed with the Mounted Infantry, and performed the duties of commandant at Kromellenborg, afterwards acting as Commandant at Rietfontein Bridge. He also took part in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony. (QSA with four clasps.)

De la Warr (8th Earl), G T R Sackville, DL, JP, Lord

Born 1869, is the second son of the 7th Earl and the daughter of the 1st Lord Lamington.  He married the daughter of Lord Brassey.  He joined Bethune's Horse, and was present at the unlucky affair near Vryheid.

Denman, Major Lord

Born in 1874, and in 1894 succeeded his great-uncle, the second Baron Denman of Dovedale, who in 1887 was in a minority of one in the House of Lords and opposed the third reading of the Law of Evidence Amendment Bill. It was the first Lord Denman, the Solicitor General of Queen Caroline, whose introduction of the case of the woman taken in adultery into the Queen Caroline trial provoked the epigram quoted by Mr Herbert Paul in the House of Commons: "Most Gracious Queen, we thee implore To go away and sin no more; Or, if that effort be too great, To go away at any rate." The present Lord Denman, after leaving Sandhurst, became a lieutenant in the Royal Scots, and afterwards served with the 11th Battalion of Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer War in 1900, towards the end of which year he was slightly wounded. Returning to England, he joined the Middlesex IY, in which he holds the rank of Major. When Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman became Premier in 1906, Lord Den man was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting. He married, in 1903, Gertrude, daughter of Sir W Pearson. Lady Denman is a busy political hostess on the Liberal side.

Denne, Major Alured Barkley, RA

He was on the Instructional Staff of the Royal Military Academy from 1892-99; Advanced Class at the Ordnance College from 1899-1901, and was on the Inspection Staff of the Royal Arsenal from 1901 until 1902, when he was appointed Chief Inspector of Explosives for the Transvaal.

De Paas, Ernest Simeon

He has served as a Volunteer in five campaigns, including the Zulu War, one of the Sudan expeditions, and the Boer War, when he went out in 1900 as a corporal in the 11th Battalion IY, and finished as quartermaster and hon. lieutenant in the 50th Battalion IY.

De Villiers, Rt Honourable Sir John Henry, KCMG

Chief-Justice, Cape of Good Hope.

De Waal, David C, Member of the Legislative Assembly

He was born at Modder, Stellenbosch, and comes of an old Colonial stock, his father and grandfather having fought against the British at Blaauwberg. He followed first the calling of farmer, and then became an ironmonger and merchant at Cape Town, which he formerly represented on the Town Council. He was Mayor of Cape Town in 1889-90, when he marked his year of office by planting an avenue of trees in the Street which bears his name. He has for a long time represented Picquetberg in the House of Assembly; is a Protectionist; a member of the Bond; generally accompanied Mr Rhodes on his journeys in the Cape, and remained his faithful champion during the troubles following on the Jameson Raid. He also warmly supported Lord Milner in the House, energetically protesting against the enmity to the British being encouraged and kept alive in the Cape Parliament (Sep 1902). Mr de Waal has travelled extensively in Europe as well as in SA. He was not re-elected at the general election in 1904.

Dewar, Lieutenant Colonel G, Army Pay Department

Entered 1880; Lieutenant Colonel, 1898.  War service: Boer War, 1879 (medal with clasp); Sudan, 1885-86 (medal; bronze star); Boer War, 1899-1900.

Dickson, George Arthur Hamilton

Born in London. He is son of Reverend, Geo. Dickson, MA, for many years Vicar of St James the Less, Westminster, and grandson of Sir David James Hamilton Dickson, RN, and of Sir Henry Hunt, CB, of HM Office of Works. He was a pupil of Geo. Edmund Street, RA, Architect to the new Law Courts, Strand, and on his death he transferred his articles to Sir Arthur Blomfield, ARA He went to SA a few years later, and has since practised in Johannesburg and Pretoria. Mr Dickson is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects; President of the Transvaal Institute of Architects; member of the SA Association of Engineers; Diocesan Surveyor of Pretoria; member of the Johannesburg Town Council; Chairman of the Rand Public Monuments Committee; and is also on the Committee of the Rand Club. He was at one time in the 1st Derbyshire Militia, but resigned his commission in 1890, on deciding to settle in SA On the outbreak of the Boer War he was appointed Captain in Bethune's MI, and commanded C Squadron in the field throughout the war, with the exception of a short period from Dec 1900 to May 1901, when he was invalided home. For some time he acted as second in command of his regiment (Queen's and KSAs and eight clasps), and he is now President of the BMI, permanent committee. Mr Dickson has for years been an enthusiastic polo player. He popularised the game in Pretoria, and was for some time Captain of the Rand Polo Club, for which he still plays.

Dickson, Poynder (6th Baronet), Captain Sir J Poynder JP, MP (Wilts Yeomanry)

Born in 1866, was formerly in the 3rd Battalion Royal Scots.

Dickson, Thomas

Of Bloemfontein, ORC, was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh. He served in the Boer War in 1900-01 with the 1st Contingent Ceylon Mounted Infantry and with the SAC (QSA and three clasps, and KSA with two clasps). In 1901 he was appointed Chief Clerk in the Land Settlement Department, Orange River Colony, Assistant Secretary there in 1903, and Secretary in 1905.

Dietrich Heinrich, JP, FRCI

Was the son of eminent surgeon, Andreas Friedrich Dietrich, and was born at Altona, Germany, May 18, 1860. He emigrated to SA in Oct 1883, where he has since resided. Although a burgher of SAR, he rendered excellent services to the British military authorities on their occupying the town of Zeerust, and also took a prominent part in the defence of the town, he having been placed in command of the Zeerust Town Guard by the British. At the conclusion of the war in 1902 he was appointed JP and a member of the Health Board for the town of Zeerust. He was entrusted with the charge of the Government Meteorological Station at Zeerust. In 1892 he married the widow of August Griete, of Matabeleland fame, and after her death he married Anne, eldest daughter of Advocate Peter Johannsen, of Altona, Germany.

Dixon, Major Frances Joseph

He was formerly in the Canadian Civil Service, and took part in the North-Western Campaign in Canada in 1885 (medal). He also served in the Boer War (two medals and six clasps). He is a JP for the Wakkerstroom District, Transvaal, where he acted as Assistant Resident Magistrate in 1902, subsequently being appointed Assistant Resident Magistrate at Volksrust.

Dodd, Thomas R

Arrested early in 1899 for having organised a public meeting for the purpose of presenting a petition to the British Vice-Consul on the subject of the murder of Edgar by a Boer policeman.

Donovan, Lieutenant Colonel W, Royal Army Medical Corps Principal Medical Officer Staff, Cavalry Division. 

Entered 1872; Lieutenant Colonel, 1896.  War Service: Afghan War, 1879-80 (medal); Boer War, 1881; Chitral Relief Force, 1895 (Despatches; medal with clasp).

Douglas, Major General C W H, Commanding 9th Brigade. 

Entered 1869; Colonel, 1898.  Staff service: Special Service Expeditionary Force, Suakim, 1885; DAA and QMG, Egypt, 1885; Adjutant Volunteers, 1886-91; Brigade - Major, Aldershot, and DAAG, 1893-98; AAG, Aldershot, 1898-99; ADC to the Queen, 1898; AAG, South Africa, 1899-1900; Major General Infantry Brigade, South Africa, 1900.  War Service: Afghan War, 1878-80 (Despatches, July and December 1880; medal with 3 clasps; bronze star; Brevet of Major); South African War, 1881; Sudan Expedition, 1884-85 (Despatches; medal with clasp; bronze star); South African War, 1899-1900; Kimberley Relief Force (Despatches).

Douglas, Lieutenant Colonel W Douglas, Royal Scots. 

Entered 1st Foot, 1878; Major, 1895.  Staff service: Adjutant Militia, 1888-93.  War service: Bechuanaland Expedition 1884-85; Boer War, 1899-1900; Commandant De Wet's Dorp.

Douglas-Pennant, Honourable E Sholto,

MP, JP, DL, was born in 1864, and married in 1887 to the daughter of Lord Southampton.  From 1885 to 1891 he served in the 1st Life Guards.

Douglass, Hon Arthur

Born at Market Harborough, Leicestershire, Jan, 1843, was fifth son of L Douglass, Solicitor, Market Harborough; was educated at the Leicester Collegiate School, and served as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy. He went to the Cape as a Land Surveyor in 1864, and started farming and the domestication of ostriches. He was Captain of the 'Rovers' in the Kaffir War of 1878, when he was present at the Pen Bush engagement; in the Morosi Campaign of 1879 was Captain in the 1st Cape Yeomanry Regiment, and served in the Boer War as Major and OC of the Albany Mounted Troops. He entered the Cape Assembly as member for Grahamstown at the general election in 1884, and represented that constituency with slight intermission from that time until, in Feb, 1904, the Progressives rejected him at the general election. Failing there he put up unsuccessfully for Woodstock. He went out of the Govt, with Sir Gordon Sprigg's resignation following the result of the elections. Mr Douglass was a Moderate in politics; was associated with the Anti-Suspensionist party; and joined Sir Gordon Sprigg's Cabinet as Minister for Railways and Commissioner of Public Works. During Sir Gordon's absence in England, in the summer of 1902, he acted as Premier of the Colony, and later in the year (Sep) made a violent attack upon the High Commissioner for making unreasonable demands upon the Govt, railways. He published a work, entitled Ostrich Farming in South Africa, and married, in 1867, Martha Emily, second daughter of Joseph Perkins, of Laughton, Leicestershire. He died Oct 12, 1905.

Duck, Veterinary Colonel Francis, CB, AVD, PRCVS

He was born in 1845. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, and entered the AVD in 1867, served in South Africa in the Old Colony, Sekukuni, and the Zulu Wars in 1877-8-9-81, and was present at the battles of Hlobana, Kambula, and Ulundi (mentioned in despatches, medal and clasp). He also took part in the first Boer War and the Bechuanaland Expedition in 1884-5 (honourably mentioned); appointed Principal Vet. Officer in India from 1894-7, and was afterwards Dir. General of the AVD from 1897-1902. He married Miss Edith Garrett, of Maritzburg, Natal.

Dudley (2nd Earl), W Humble Ward, Major Worcester Yeomanry Cavalry

War service: South African War, 1899-1900; DAAG, Imperial Yeomanry.

Dundonald (12th Earl), Major General Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, Baronet, MVO

Entered, 2nd Life Guards, 1870; Colonel, 1889.  Staff service: Colonel on Staff Irregular Mounted Brigade, South Africa, 1899-1900; Major General Cavalry Brigade, South Africa, March 1900.  War service: Sudan Expedition, 1884-85 (Despatches; medal with 2 clasps; bronze star; Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel); South African War, 1899-1900.  Lord Dundonald, who took so prominent a part in the relief of Ladysmith and the subsequent sweeping of Natal and the Eastern Transvaal, was born in 1852.  He was the son of the 11th Earl and the daughter of Mr W A Mackinnon, of Mackinnon, MP.  He comes of a fine fighting race, the 10th Earl (Lord Cochrane) having distinguished himself not only in destroying Napoleon's fleet in 1809, but subsequently during the wars for the independence of Chilli and Peru, and in Brazil.

Duffus, Captain F F, Army Service Corps

Served throughout the Boer War in 1899-1902, being afterwards quartered in Egypt. He appeared as a witness before the South African Sales of War Stores Commission in 1905.

Duncan, James Denoon, JP

Was born at 107 Greenock, Sep 30, 1861. He arrived at Kimberley in 1881; was admitted Conveyancer of the High Court of Griqualand in 1887, and became Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public at the Supreme Court, Cape Colony, in 1888. He is a member of Kimberley School Board and Library Committee, and Chairman of the Kimberley Branch of the South African Imperial Union, the Progressive Party organisation in Cape Colony. Mr Duncan takes a great interest in public affairs, and has rendered services to the Imperial cause and that of the loyalist population of South Africa. On the outbreak of war he volunteered his services to the military, who appointed him their legal adviser, subsequently being appointed Military Crown Prosecutor during the siege of Kimberley, rendering special services in connection with the regulating of supplies and a scheme for the removal of the inhabitants, being mentioned in despatches by General H G Kekewich and Lord Methuen. In 1890 he visited England as one of the Cape Colony delegates appointed by the Vigilance Conference of South Africa to interview the Government on questions affecting the settlement in South Africa. He was President of the Diamond Fields Scottish Assn. in 1902, and presided at the ceremony at Magersfontein on the third anniversary of the battle, when HE the High Commissioner unveiled the Scottish memorial to the Highland Brigade. Recreation, bowling, having played in most of the Cape Colony tournament matches, and is an ex-President of the Kimberley Bowling Green Club.

Dunne, Colonel Walter Alphonsus, CB

Born Feb 10, 1853; was educated at Queen's University, Ireland; joined the Army in 1873, and has seen active service in the Kaffir War of 1877-8; the Zulu War (being present at Rorke's Drift and Ulundi); the Sekukuni Expedition of 1880 (despatches), the Boer War 1880-1 (siege of Potchefstroom; dies patches); the Egyptian Campaign, 1882 (present at Tel-el-Kebir); and the Suakin Expedition, 1885 Colonel Dunne has been Assistant QMG at Army Headquarters since Jan, 1900, and represents the War Office on the Army Med. Advisory Board. He married, July 23, 1885, Winifred, daughter of John Bird, CMG, Treasurer of Natal.

Du Plessis, Reverend. H,

Formerly minister of the Dutch Reformed Church at Lindley, was always opposed to the war which broke out in 1899. He became chaplain of the Refugee Camp at Kronstad, and earned the gratitude of both sides by his impartial care of sick and wounded at Lindley. His strong British sympathies led to a boycott which resulted in his resigning his ministry, and he was then appointed Inspector of Schools in the Transvaal under the British Administration (1902-3).

Du Putron, Captain Cyril, Loyal North Lancs Regiment & Lancashire Fusiliers

Colonel Cyril De Putron, born 1874; commissioned Second Lieutenant (from Militia), 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1895; Lieutenant 1897; Assistant Signalling Officer and Brigade Transport Officer during the Defence of Kimberley (Mentioned in Despatches 8.5.1900) Captain 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers 15.6.1901; Instructor, School of Musketry (Hythe), 1 Apr 1909 -31 Mar 1913; attached General Staff (graded Brigade-Major), Northern Command, 1 Dec 1913 - 16 Mar 1915; served during the Great War in Gallipoli, Mar 1915 -Oct 1915; Major 1 Sep 1915; the Balkans theatre of operations, Oct 1915 - Apr 1916 and Nov 1916 - Jun 1917; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel attached 2/15th Battalion London Regiment, 2 May 1916 - 10 Oct 1917; on the Western Front May 1916 - Nov 1916; with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Jun 1917 - May 1918 (MID London Gazette 5 Nov 1915 and 4 Jan 1917; Legion of Honour, 5th Class and Croix de Guerre); Commandant, School of Musketry Southern Command, 19 Aug 1918 - 11 Mar 1919; Lieutenant-Colonel 22 Mar 1920; Colonel 22 Mar 1924; Officer in Command Record and Pay Office Royal Tank Corps 12 Mar 1927.

QSA (3) DofK OFS Tr (last a copy) (Lieut C De Putron, 1st L N  Lanc  Regt.), KSA (2) (Capt  C  de Putron  Lanc  Fus), K Star (reverse engraved ‘Lieut. C de Putron. 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regt.’ (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1901), with integral top riband bar, 1914-15 Star (Capt C De Putron Lan Fus), BWM, VM & MID (Col C De Putron.), France, Legion of Honour, Knight’s Badge, silver, gold centres and enamel, minor white enamel damage, France, Croix de Guerre 1914-18, avec palmes.  Spink Jul 06

Dyer, Bertram L,

Librarian of Kimberley, South Africa, was born May 20, 1868; he was educated at King's College, London; entered the War Department as clerk; became Assistant librarian at Toynbee Hall and Kensington in 1888, and Librarian of Kimberley in 1900. He was also founder and first editor of the Library Assistant, and has published The Public Library Systems of Great Britain, America, and South Africa, &c. He married, Sep 20, 1901, Alice Cornish Watkins, of Kensington.