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Back Row.
Lieutenant Ian Rose-Innes Foster FORBES
Captain Thomas Byrne SELLAR (K.O.S.B., attached)
Lieutenant Hon. Reginald George Benedict FORBES
Lieutenant & Quartermaster W. ANDERSON
Lieutenant Alexander Harvey MACLEAN (A. & S. Highlanders, attached)
Lieutenant Alexander Archie Dunlop BEST [K.I.A., during attack on a train 4 miles north of Naboom Spruit, 04/07/1901]
Lieutenant Lord George Stewart MURRAY (Black Watch, attached)
Lieutenant Lionel Dixon SPENCER (K.O.S.B., attached)
Lieutenant Hon. Maurice Patrick MACNAGHTEN (Scots Fusiliers, attached)
Lieutenant Alexander Walter Frederic BAIRD

Front Row.
Captain George Stanley WALKER (R.A.M.C.) [died of enteric, Ladysmith, 23/02/1900]
Captain Hon. Robert Francis CARNEGIE
Major Claude Charles MILLER WALLNUTT, D.S.O. [K.I.A., Wagon Hill, 06/01/1900]
Major William Augustus SCOTT
Captain Eric STREATFIELD (Adjutant) [invalided after the Relief of Ladysmith; died 24/03/1902]
Captain Cecil Frederick Nevil MACREADY
Captain Henry Alexander BETHUNE















Captain Eric STREATFIELD

Memorial in St Mary's Church, Chiddingstone

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ CAPTAIN ERIC STREATFEILD, DSO/ THE 2ND BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS, (XCII)/ FIFTH SON OF COLONEL STREATFEILD, OF CHIDDINGSTONE:/ BORN 6TH FEBRUARY 1864, DIED 24TH MARCH 1902/ INVALIDED HOME FROM SOUTH AFRICA AFTER THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH,/ WHERE HE ACTED AS ADJUTANT OF THE 2ND BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS/ AND WHOSE DEATH WAS DUE TO HARDSHIPS ENDURED DURING THE SIEGE. "COURTEOUS IN HIS MANNER OF DEALING WITH ALL RANKS,/ AN EXAMPLE OF BRAVERY UNFLINCHING IN HIS DUTIES/ CAPTAIN STREATFIELD CONTRACTED THE DISEASE WHICH/ HAS NOW PROVED FATAL DURING THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH,/ AND THE COMMANDING OFFICER FEELS SURE THAT ALL THAT/ KNEW HIM, WILL, AS HE DOES, FEEL HIS LOSS GREATLY"/ EXTRACT FROM BATTN ORDERS.

SEE: Captain Eric Streatfield, D.S.O.



Captain Claude Charles MILLER-WALLNUTT

"Major Miller-Wallnutt of the 2nd Battalion was killed at Wagon Hill, Ladysmith on 6th Jan 1900. He was born on 30th Mar 1861 in Edinburgh, educated there, and entered the Argyll and Bute Artillery Militia. On 23rd Apr 1881 he joined the 75th and was promoted to Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders on 1st Jul in the same year. He served in the Egyptian and Sudan campaigns, fighting at Tel-el-Kebir, El Teb and Tamai. He was also on the Nile expedition to rescue General Gordon and the storming of the Heights at Malakand and Dargai. He was promoted to major on 18th may 1898.
In South Africa the 2nd Battalion came under siege in Ladysmith. Major Miller-Walnutt commanded a company at the battle of Wagon Hill. He was with Lieut Digby Jones RE when he was shot, some say by the Boer General de Villiers. At the next moment de Villiers was himself shot in the head by a sapper. Claude Charles Miller-Wallnutt was described as 'a man cast in the mould of a Berserk Viking' which conjures up a picture of a fierce and scary highland fighter. His award of the DSO was gazetted on 20th may 1898." ( britishempire.co.uk )



SEE: Major Claude Miller-Wallnutt DSO



Lieutenant Alexander Archie Dunlop BEST

Lieutenant Best was killed in action in an attack on a train four miles north of Naboom Spruit, July 4th, 1901. He was the only son of A.V. Dunlop Best, Esq., was born in May, 1879, and educated at Haileybury and Eton (Mr Radcliffe's). He entered the Gordon Highlanders in April, 1899, being promoted lieut. in the following Oct. He had served from the commencement of the war. The party which he commanded was escort to a train travelling from Pretoria to Petersburg, which was wrecked and all in it were killed or wounded. (Dooner 1903, p. 26).


Captain George Stanley WALKER, R.A.M.C.

Captain Walker died of enteric in Ladysmith, Feb. 23rd, 1900. He was born in May, 1865, joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1892, and was promoted capt. July, 1895. Capt. Walker was serving in India in 1899, but went to South Africa in Oct., and was in Ladysmith till his death. He was mentioned in despatches by Lieut.-Gen. Sir G. White, March 23rd, 1900, L.G. Feb. 8th, 1901. (Dooner 1903, p. 400).

QSA sold through Noonan's, 21/09/2001. SEE: Capt. G. S. Walker, R.A.M.C.




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