| Hogg | A W | | Surgeon Captain | BSACM Matabeleland 1893 (0). Arthur William Hogg was born in London in 1862 and qualified as a Surgeon in Scotland in November 1887. He is listed as a qualified Doctor resident at Huddersfield in the 1891 Census, but shortly thereafter he made his way to South Africa, and was appointed a Surgeon Captain in the Victoria Column on the outbreak of the Matabele Rebellion in 1893. A talented artist, his drawings and account of the early conduct of the campaign were subsequently published in the Illustrated London News, the former including views of 'the house belonging to Mr. Colenbrander, a European trader, now occupied as a temporary hospital', and a depiction of the battle of Imbembesi on 1 November 1893. Having met-up at Iron Mill Hill on 14 October 1893, the Victoria and Salisbury Columns fought their first skirmish with the Matabele on the 25th, an engagement described by Hogg in the following terms:' On 20 October, a hundred men went out at night and burnt the Insukamini Kraal, one of the largest in the country. The kraal was abandoned and the enemy was not seen. On 25 October, the enemy made their first attack on our laager. Our native contingent, the Makalakas, were encamped 300 yards away on the left, to the eastward and near the river. It was there that the first shots were heard, and the alarm having sounded, a general attack was made on us from all sides. The light was very bad; the moon was fading away, and dawn was just commencing; the dark shadows from the bushy kopjes rendered it impossible at the commencement to make out their position. Our pickets had a narrow escape, and the Makalakas had to fight their way to the laager; the Matabele assegaied and shot forty or fifty of them. The enemy made three determined rushes, but the fire from our artillery was too heavy for them. The attack on the laager continued for about one hour. At half-past four all firing ceased, and the skirmishing party returned. Our losses were one man shot and three wounded. The enemy must have fired a great number of shots, but nearly all of their bullets went high up over the tops of the wagons. The loss of the enemy was estimated at 300 killed and about the same wounded.’Accusations of War Crimes. The mention of enemy wounded is not without interest, for in May 1894 an ex-Hospital Orderly by the name of Lionel Cohen, who had served under Dr. Hogg in the Victoria Column, wrote to The Cape Times with a list of alleged atrocities committed by his comrades against the Matabele - the dispatch of their wounded high on his list. A day or two later, on the 19 May, Dr. Hogg's response to these allegations was published in the same newspaper: 'Sir - I notice in this morning's paper a letter taken over from the paper Truth, signed by Lionel Cohen, in which he professes to give a few particulars of the incidents of the occupation of Matabeleland. As Mr. Lionel Cohen was a Hospital Orderly and attached under my command to the Victoria Column, the statements which he makes must be, as they are, absolutely untrue, for he was never in the Salisbury Column during the Bembesi fight, his duties confining him exclusively to the Victoria Column hospital. I can positively swear, as Surgeon-in-Charge of the Victoria Column, that it is utterly false to state, as Mr. Cohen does, that not a single Matabele was attended to either by the Salisbury or Victoria Columns, for I myself attended to certainly between 200 or 300 Matabele wounded during the war, and my colleague, Dr. Edgelow [see Lot 887], probably attended to an equal number. For many days after our occupation of Bulawayo, almost my whole time was devoted to attending to the Matabele wounded who came in to be treated by the white doctors. There are hundreds of others who can testify on oath to the utter falsity of Mr. Cohen's statement and there were no Matabele wounded attended to by the Chartered Company's doctors, for I have given the facts as they absolutely occurred, and what Mr. Cohen may have done or seen after the Bembesi fight I cannot say, nor can I tell what inducements may have been offered to Mr. Cohen to make these statements. I send you this letter because I cannot leave the country and allow a letter written by a Hospital Orderly under my command, to pass without contradiction. As I am leaving by tomorrow's steamer for England, I trust that you will obtain for my letter the same publicity as had been given to Mr. Cohen's.’Cohen did indeed publish a formal apology for his 'rash act', and confessed to having received payment for his exaggerated statements, as part of an ongoing legal case. And as verified by official papers in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, Hogg's letter was a welcome addition to evidence accumulated by a Commission of Enquiry into the conduct of war in the recent rebellion - although Cecil Rhodes appears to have lost the original documentation of that Enquiry's conclusions. The Plague Epidemic, Cape Town, 1902In due course, Hogg returned to South Africa, where he became a District Medical Officer, and it was in this capacity that he lent valuable service during the outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague in Cape Town in 1901, latterly at the Maitland Plague Hospital - indeed the Medical Officer of Health cited his good work and praised him for 'sticking to his guns in the dark days of the plague'. And dark days they were, around 400 people dying before the endemic was brought under control towards the end of the year, the Maitland Plague Hospital dealing with around 600 admissions, a third of whom died - some of these fatalities were inevitably among the hospital's staff, notably Dr. J. C. Dunlop, Miss Ellen Kayser, the Matron, and her sister, Minnie, an Acting Matron; see F. K. Mitchell's related article, The Plague in Cape Town in 1901 and Its Subsequent Establishment as an Endemic Disease in South Africa, published in the S. A. Medical Journal, 23 June 1983, for full details (copy included). Sadly, official papers also confirm that Hogg resigned his post at the Maitland in July 1901, as a result of a dispute with Matron Smythe - apparently he entertained two newly arrived nurses in Cape Town, as a result of which they were late in reporting for duty. Even sadder were the possible consequences of this dispute - Hogg took his own life by self-administered narcotic poison in February 1902. BSACM Matabeleland 1893, no clasp (Surgn. Captn. A. W. Hogg, Victoria Column). DNW April 2006 £390. DNW June 2009 £600.
Source: BSACM rolls | Victoria Column |
| Hogg | J | | Sergeant | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0). Served previously as No. 1193 Corporal, Royal Highlanders, and is entitled to the Egypt & Sudan Medal with clasps for El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-5, and Kirbekan. CGHGSM (1) Bechuanaland (Ser. J. Hogg, Kimby. Rifs.); BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (Sergt. J. Hogg. M. R. F.); QSA (2) Defence of Kimberley, South Africa 1901 (Lieut: J. C. Hogg. Kimberley Town Gd:); 1914-15 Star (S. M. J. C. Hogg Staff.); BWM (S. M. J. C. Hogg. S. A. Veteran Rgt.); VM (S. M. J. C. Hogg. Staff). DNW May 2017 £1,100.
Source: BSACM rolls | Matabeleland Relief Force |
| Hoggan | William | | Corporal | BSACM Matabeleland 1893 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Victoria Column |
| Hoggans | Daniel | 36 | Muleteer | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | No 10 Mountain Battery, RGA |
| Holden | William | 1263 | Corporal | BSACM Matabeleland 1893 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Cape Mounted Rifles |
| Holderness | W | 3813 | Lance Corporal | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (1) Mashonaland 1897.
Source: BSACM rolls | 7th (The Queen's Own) Hussars |
| Holding | E | | Sergeant | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Matabeleland Relief Force |
| Holdstock | James | 1494 | Lance Corporal | BSACM Matabeleland 1893 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Bechuanaland Border Police |
| Hole | H M | | Lieutenant and Adjutant | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0). Hugh Marshall Hole was born in Tiverton, Devon in May 1865 and was educated at Blundell's School and Balliol College, Oxford. Having then failed to gain entry to the Chinese Consular Service, he sailed for South Africa, where, in 1889, he found employment in a Kimberley law firm. As it transpired, the same firm represented Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Leander Jameson, and, in the following year, on gaining their confidence, he became the first member of clerical staff to be appointed to the newly formed British South Africa Company. Moving from the Cape to the company's Mashonaland office in Salisbury in 1891, he was appointed Private Secretary to Jameson, while in 1893 he achieved another first when he became a Civil Commissioner and Justice of the Peace for Salisbury District. However, on news of the Matabele raid on Victoria in July of the latter year, Jameson refused Hole permission to accompany the Mashonaland Horse, of which he was a member, instead insisting that he remain in Salisbury as Magistrate. But as Hole would later recall in his unpublished memoirs, this latter post actually led to his own chapter of active service:'Then came the Wilson disaster at Shangani. Just before Christmas 1893, the natives in Lomagunda District became troublesome, and had a fracas with some white men, in which one - Arthur Stanford - was fatally wounded. As Magistrate I was sent out to investigate, and in view of the disturbed condition of the country a detachment of 25 men, under Lieutenant Randolph Nesbitt (Now Major Nesbitt, V. C. ), with a maxim gun, was sent as my escort. The wet season was on, and the country was in a fearful condition. I outstripped my escort and had finished my enquiry - including the dying deposition of young Stanford - before they joined me.We were returning when we got information of the Shangani fight, and orders to proceed towards the Zambesi, in which direction it was thought that King Lobengula was fleeing with Wilson in pursuit. Nesbitt and I picked out 10 or 12 of the best mounted men in the escort and turned back. We spent many days in fruitless search, and among the Lomagunda natives, all of whom were panicky, and who gave us a lot of false information to get rid of us. The weather was awful, and for two weeks we could get nothing but kaffir food, and marched through, and slept, in mud. We had to swim rivers. Eventually, I got back to Salisbury, after three weeks of the roughest experience I have ever endured. I left on Christmas Eve and returned on 17 January. I gained nothing except a bad dose of fever; but I made a life-long chum in Randolph Nesbitt.’Following his experiences in the troubles of 1893, and a period back in the U. K. to recover from his fever, Hole remained actively employed in Salisbury in the period leading up to, and including, the ill-fated Jameson Raid of December 1895, a period about which, as a result of his first hand knowledge, he later wrote his much acclaimed history - as he put it in his private memoirs, 'Rhodes was constantly in and out of our offices, and Jameson was there in the intervals between his rapid trips to the North.’ It was, however, in the following year, that he himself officially witnessed military service, for in March 1896, on the outbreak of rebellion, he attested for the Salisbury Field Force (S. F. F. ):'On the outbreak of the rebellion, I was at once promoted from Trooper to Lieutenant in the Rhodesia Horse, and shortly afterwards, when the Salisbury Field Force was formed, I was made Adjutant of the left wing. I took part in a good many patrols at the outset and had my first experience of being under fire.I remember one little expedition in which Colonel Alderson, my wife Ethel (mounted on one of his horses), the Judge and I went to visit some rebel villages about eight miles out.Alderson's action in allowing a lady to go beyond the town limits were severely criticised in the local press!'Following further leave back in England, Hole was appointed Secretary of the company's offices in Bulawayo in 1898, while in August of the following year he joined the newly formed Southern Rhodesia Volunteers (S. R. V. ). And with the advent of hostilities a few weeks later, he departed with two S. R. V. squadrons and some B. S. A. P. to the Bechuanaland line to guard the border. Struck down by dysentery at the end of the year, he was invalided back to Bulawayo, but afterwards served as a Transport Officer for Carrington's Field Force (The Bushmen Corps), before returning to civilian employ as Government Secretary for Matabeleland in the course of 1900. Residing in Bulawayo, it was his responsibility to find a way around the great currency shortage then being experienced as a result of the war. Holding large stocks of postage stamps, he introduced his now famous Money Cards, bearing on one side his signature and the stamp of the Administrator's Office, and on the other side a B. S. A. postage stamp of varying denominations - sold with this lot is an original example of a one shilling card. Another of his duties in the Boer War was to administer native labour, and to that end he was invited to carry out talks with the new Transvaal Government at Johannesburg, in order to establish a mutual arrangement for recruitment:'Johannesburg was in military occupation and the war was at its height. At Wolve Hoek we were held up in the train for some hours, and were eye-witness of a big drive intended to round up General de Wet, but although a large number of Boers were captured, de Wet was not among them. Lord Kitchener was there and seemed much annoyed. Our journey to and from Johannesburg took a fearful time owing to the numerous stoppages and delays due to military operations. At one time near Mafeking, our train was shelled by Boers but they were turned by fire from the armoured train which escorted us.’In April 1901, at Kimberley, Hole had one of his last meetings with Cecil Rhodes:'I was a good deal shocked at his appearance, which had altered for the worse since I had last seen him, shortly after the relief of Mafeking. Dr. Jameson was staying with him and also General Pretyman. I had some long talks with Rhodes, about the native labour question in Rhodesia mainly. We played bridge every evening and I lost £5 to Rhodes, at which he was greatly pleased, though it didn't amuse me so much!'Rhodes died in early 1902, following Hole's trip to Aden, at Rhodes' behest, in order to bring back 200 Arab coolies:'I was placed in charge of the arrangements for the national funeral in the Matopo Hills, and had a good deal of responsibility. For this duty I received the thanks of the Administrator, the Chartered Company and the Rhodes Trustees.’Returning to the U. K. on leave, Hole was offered a place in the Rhodesian Coronation Contingent:'At once I went to the Colonial Camp at Alexandra Palace. The Contingent was composed of the B. S. A. P. and the same number of my own regiment, the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers, all under Major Straker of the Police. I took part in the Coronation of Edward VII and got the Medal.’Back in Rhodesia, he served as Administrator of the North-Western District 1903-04, in which period he made the 'most interesting journey of my life, by canoe, up the Zambesi to visit King Lewanika in Barotseland', and, following service back in Bulawayo and Salisbury, as representative of a special labour mission to Nyasaland in 1909, a successful expedition but one which 'closed with a shipwreck at the mouth of the Zambesi and a sojourn of three days on a spit of sand!' A similar mission in 1911 ended in failure, largely due to the 'uncompromising attitude' of the new Governor, Sir William Manning. By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Hole was serving on a Colonial Office Commission to investigate the question of Native Reserves in Southern Rhodesia, but he returned to the U. K. at the end of the year and was appointed a Brigade Major of a Territorial Brigade on home duty. Service in the 4th Norfolks followed, as did work as a Draft Conducting Officer and as a Staff Officer in command of quartering in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, latterly in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. With the ending of hostilities, he rejoined the British South Africa Company at head office in London, where, in 1924, he became Managing Secretary with a seat on the Executive Council, and was created a C. M. G. ,'for service in the London Office of the British South Africa Company' (London Gazette 1 January 1924 refers). He finally retired in 1928, in which year he embarked proper on his career as an author, being uniquely qualified to write about his chosen subjects from personal experience. He died in London in May 1941. CMG; BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (Lieut. & Adjt. , 5. FF. ); QSA, 1 clasp, Rhodesia (Lieut. , S. Rhoda. Vol. ); CORONATION 1902, silver. DNW December 1991 £1100. DNW March 2008 £6000.
Source: BSACM rolls | Salisbury Field Force |
| Hole | W | | | BSACM Mashonaland 1890 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | British South Africa Police |
| Holert | T | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | British South Africa Police |
| Holford | J H E | | 2nd Lieutenant | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0). James Henry Edward Holford was born in December 1873, and gazetted to the 7th Hussars on 7 March, 1894, taking part in the operations in South Africa in 1896. He became Lieutenant in May 1898, and next served, as Captain, in the operations in Ashanti, where he was appointed D. A. A. G. to the Ashanti Field Force and given command of a column in the mopping-up operations in the North and North-West of the country in September 1900. For his services he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the D. S. O. He became Adjutant of the Denbigh Hussars, Imperial Yeomanry, 3 January, 1902, and retired in 1905. On the outbreak of the Great War he was appointed Major in the Nottinghamshire Hussars, and later commanded the 12th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, in Italy. For his services in Italy he was three times mentioned, created a C. M. G. , and awarded a clasp to his D. S. O. and the Italian silver medal for bravery. Approximately 35 officers with pre-war D. S. O. 's subsequently won a Bar in the Great War. C. M. G. London Gazette 1 January, 1919, 'For Military Operations in Italy. 'D. S. O. London Gazette 15 January, 1901, 'In recognition of services during the recent operations in Ashanti. ' The insignia were presented by the King at St. James's Palace on 12 March, 1901. Bar to D. S. O. London Gazette 1 February, 1919: 'Major (Temporary Lieut-Colonel), Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, attached 12th Battn. Durham Light Infantry (Italy). For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in command of a battalion during the operations on the Piave from 27 to 30 Oct. 1918. Under heavy machine-gun fire he frequently reorganized his battalion and led them forward to their next objective, showing a total disregard for his own safety. His courage and able leadership were most marked. 'M. I. D. London Gazette 4 December, 1900; 30 May, 1918; 6 January and 5 June, 1919. C.MG; DSO VR and bar; BSACM reverse Rhodesia 1896 (2nd Lieut. , 7th Huss.); Ashanti 1900 (1) Kumassi, high relief bust (Captain, D.S.O., 7th Hussars); British War and Victory Medals with MID (Lt. Col. ). DNW June 1996 £3300.
Source: BSACM rolls | 7th (The Queen's Own) Hussars |
| Holford | W G | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Umtali Burghers |
| Holgare | David | 4160 | Private | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | (Duke of Wellington's) West Riding Regiment |
| Holl | H B | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Bulawayo Field Force |
| Hollam | W | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Bulawayo Field Force |
| Hollamby | Ernest Henry | 4154 | Private | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | (Duke of Wellington's) West Riding Regiment |
| Holland | C R | | Lieutenant | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Bulawayo Field Force |
| Holland | C T | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | British South Africa Police |
| Holland | F | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | British South Africa Police |
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