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1900 - Attack on Canadian post at Pan repulsed. Bruce Hamilton relieves Ladybrand.

From the diary of Lt Burne, RN:

Very thick mists up here, and as we hear rumours of attack we have very alert and wakeful nights. A great many movements in our front which only succeed in dispersing the Boer commandos without capturing them. We hear of Lord Roberts' proclamation of the 1st September annexing the Transvaal, and we give three cheers!

1901 - Capture of Commandant Letter and commando by Scobell near Cradock. Methuen attacked by Kemp and De la Rey at Marico River.
1902 - Interview of Boer Generals with Mr. Chamberlain.

1901 - "Troops to the number of 21 officers and 867 men are under orders to sail for South Africa in the transport Manila, which leaves Southampton to-day. The principal drafts are 1 officer and 72 men of the 2nd Royal West Surrey Regiment ; 54 men of the 2nd Lincoln, 4 officers and 127 men of the Devonshire Regiment ; 131 men of the 2nd Cheshire Regiment; 78 men of the 2nd Royal Berks ; 70 men of the 1st Connaught Rangers ; 100 men of the Royal Medical Corps ; and smaller drafts from various other regiments."
Aberdeen Journal, Thursday 5th September 1901


1901 - "Dr. A. Conan Doyle writes as follows to to-day's Times :—Would it not be perfectly feasible to put a truck full of Boer irreconcilables behind every engine which passes through a dangerous part of the country? Two of these dastardly affairs in the last few weeks have cost us 40 men killed and wounded, while the sum total of men who have been maimed in this fashion during the war amounts to many hundreds. Such a practice as I suggest would infallibly put an end to it, and it is so obvious that it is difficult to imagine why it has not been done. The Germans in 1870 continually carried French hostages in the trains."
The North Devon Journal, Thursday 5th September 1901