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I found in my research material the attached image which is just one page of a letter or diary of a young officer of the 2nd Wiltshires given to me after a BBC Radio Wiltshire interview twenty-odd years ago. He mentions Slabbert's Nek and the Brandwater Basin and that Captain Bolton was his Company Commander, so this guy was serving with C Company at the time that he wrote this, on what I worked out from various sources to be the 24th of July 1900, just days before Lieutenant Colonel H.M. Carter would be shot in the jaw in an attack on Zandvalleijshoek Farm near the Bethlehem to Fouriesberg Road.

These few surviving words speak volumes about the sort of Commanding Officer Carter was.

In history it is so often these priceless snippets of information that provide insight which would otherwise be denied to us.

The image is poor but can still be read.