Written by officers attached to the various brigades and edited by Surgeon T T Jeans RN

With an introduction by Commander Chas N Robinson RN (Retired)

Sampson, Low, Marston and Co, Ltd, London, 1901

Contents

Part I - Naval Brigade in Cape Colony

Chapter 1 - Formation of the first brigade, Stormberg

Chapter 2 - Queenstown, Simonstown

Chapter 3 - Belmont

Chapter 4 - Graspan

Chapter 5 - After Graspan, Modder River, Magersfontein

Chapter 6 - Wait at Modder River, Grant's Guns, Relief of Kimblerley, Jacobsdal

Part II - From Enslin to Bloemfontein

Chapter 1 - Port Elizabeth, invasion of OFS, Ram Dam, Wegdrai Drift, capture of Jacobsdal

Chapter 2 - Jacobsdal, Paardeberg

Chapter 3 - Paardeberg

Chapter 4 - Poplar Grove, Bloemfontein, Naval Hill, typhoid, re-organisation

Part III - The advance from Bloemfontein

Chapter 1 - From Bloemfontein, Brandfort, Smaldeal

Chapter 2 - Zand River, Kroonstad

Chapter 3 - Elandsfontein, surrender of Johannesburg, march on Pretoria

Chapter 4 - Surrender of Pretoria

Chapter 5 - Diamond Hill, Koodoospoort, Bronker's Spruit

Chapter 6 - Belfast

Chapter 7 - Guns to RFA, return to Simonstown

Part IV - With Grant's Guns north of Bloemfontein

Chapter 1 - From Bloemfontein Winburg, Heilbron

Chapter 2 - Marching 250 miles in 15 days

Chapter 3 - Potchestroom Column

Part V - From Belfast to Komati Poort

From the diary of Lt E P C Back RN

Part VI - The Naval Brigade in Ladysmith

Chapter 1 - Landing at the Cape, Guns for Ladysmith

Chapter 2 - 30 Oct 99, first wounded, moving the 4.7s

Chapter 3 - Ladysmith and positions of the guns

Chapter 4 - Guns and gun mounting, ammunition

Chapter 5 - Site of the camp, amusements , dinner

Chapter 6 - Lady Anne, Wagon Hill

Chapter 7 - Christmas, New Year, the relief, Powerful home

Part VII - The relief of Ladysmith

Chapter 1 - Landing and arrival at the front

Chapter 2 - Frere, Chieveley, eve of Colenso

Chapter 3 - Colenso

Chapter 4 - After Colenso, life in camp

Chapter 5 - Spearman's Hill, Spion Kop, Chieveley

Chapter 6 - Hussar Hill, Monte Cristo, Gun Hill, crossing the Tugela

Chapter 7 - Hlangwani, relief of Ladysmith

Chapter 8 - Encamped around Ladysmith, waiting for the advance

Part VIII - With the Natal Field Force

Chapter 1 - Glencoe, Utrecht, De Wet's farm

Chapter 2 - Botha's Pass, Alleman's Nek, Laing's Nek, majuba, Volkrust,

Appendices

Officers of the Naval Brigades

List of distinctions

POs, NCOs and men who were mentioned in despatches