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The regiment sailed from India, and arrived at Durban in December 1901.
After being stationed in the Newcastle district for a short time, they and
the 20th Hussars were brigaded under Colonel Nixon, and were employed in the
last great drives, chiefly in the extreme north-east of the Orange River
Colony, when many of the enemy were taken. This column was responsible
for many of these captures, and in Lord Kitchener's despatch of 8th April
1902 he mentioned that "Colonel Nixon reported the discovery of three Krupp
field guns which were found hidden in the bed of a tributary of
Liebensberg's Vlei". Dealing with an earlier drive, Lord Kitchener
stated that Colonel Nixon had on the night of 26th February 1902
"successfully repulsed an attack by a large number of the enemy upon the
line of the Cornelius River".
One officer gained mention by Lord Kitchener during the war, and in the
final despatch 3 officers and 3 non-commissioned officers were mentioned.
