These were, however, formed into a column, under Colonel Knox, consisting of two batteries of artillery, two squadrons of the 19th Hussars and 5th Lancers, 'all that was left of them,' with horses, and detachments, each about two hundred and fifty strong, from the Manchester, Liverpool, and Devon Regiments, the 60th Rifles, and the Gordon Highlanders, and this force moved out of Ladysmith at dawn on the 1st to attack the Boers on Pepworth's Hill, in the hope of interfering with their entrainment at Modderspruit Station.
"London to Ladysmith via Pretoria"
Winston Spencer Churchill
Word has been sent to the entrainment wards.
"Red Fleece"
Will Levington Comfort
There is one little nurse from the entrainment wards-it is a good story, which I will tell in good time-competent to care for him.
"Red Fleece"
Will Levington Comfort