Alfred Lewis Collett:
2nd Anglo/Boer War Diary, from December 1899.
Introduction:
I published this
diary knowing that 2001 was the centenary of the
end of the second Anglo/Boer War. The Internet
is the ideal medium to allow it to grow as more material
is dug up from various family vaults!!
My great grandfather, Alfred, and his three brothers
were all professional soldiers at the end of the nineteenth
century. All in the 2nd Middlesex regiment, and all in
South Africa. What is even more remarkable is
that in the
rain filled trenches, skirmishes and privations of that conflict, Alfred
kept his journal going, right up to the day peace was declared.
The diary itself is a small field note book (12 x 8 cm closed but now missing its pencil!)
with almost all the entries made in ink, unless otherwise stated. The photographs were
brought back from Africa pasted into a 1895 Photographic folio of views of Norwich Cathedral.
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