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Title: With the Flag to Pretoria: A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900. Volume 1

Author: Herbert Wrigley Wilson

Release date: March 19, 2015 [eBook #48534]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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WITH THE FLAG TO PRETORIA.

S. Begg.]

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN VISITING HER WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

The Queen has throughout the war shown the greatest solicitude for the wounded. On March 22, 1900, Her Majesty paid a visit to the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich, and personally handed gifts of flowers to over a hundred wounded men, in each case accompanying the gift with a few words of sympathy, which often had reference to the services of the particular man whom she addressed. The patients included survivors from Colenso, Spion Kop, &c. The Irish soldiers, whose gallantry had been specially noteworthy, were favoured with special notice. The Queen was accompanied by the Princess Christian and the Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

With the Flag
to Pretoria
A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900

By H. W. WILSON
Author of "Ironclads in Action," &c. &c.

ILLUSTRATED MAINLY FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND AUTHENTIC SKETCHES TAKEN IN SOUTH AFRICA

Vol. I.

LONDON
Published by HARMSWORTH BROTHERS, Limited
 1900