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containing “chocolate in cakes, at once the most sustaining and appetising form of food”. Many
soldiers hastened at once to mail the gift back home in order to preserve it as a keepsake.
Reference:
Dance, Stephen, “As Good as a Medal”, Soldiers of the Queen,no. 75, 1993; Teulié, Gilles, “A
Present from the Queen”, Soldiers of the Queen,no. 75, 1993; Wilson, H. W., With the Flag to
Pretoria, Volume I (London, Harmsworth Brothers, 1900).
Christian Victor, His Highness Major Prince,
1867–1900
Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, a grandson of Queen Victoria, was born at Windsor
Castle, Berkshire, England. He joined the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in 1888, and served in the
Ashanti campaign of 1895–96 and in the Sudan in 1898. He became an aide-de-camp to the British
Commander-in-Chief, Lord Roberts, in 1900, largely to ensure that he would never be close enough
to the Boers to risk capture or death at their hands. He died of enteric (typhoid) fever on 29 October
1900 and was buried in Pretoria.
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer,
1874–1965
Winston Churchill was only twenty-five years of age when he achieved public recognition by
escaping from a Boer prisoner-of-war camp in Pretoria. His account of the war as he saw it in late
1899 and the first half of 1900 did much to colour the public’s idea of events in South Africa.
Winston Churchill was the son of the prominent politician Lord Randolph Churchill. He joined
the army in 1895 and saw service in Cuba with the Spanish and in India with the Malakand Field
Force the following year. He was attached to the 21st Lancers with the Nile Expeditionary Force in
1898 and fought at Omdurman. As he lacked the wealth to support an officer’s lifestyle, he combined
military service with journalism, and it was his functioning in this dual role that led to such
arrangements being forbidden by the army. In March 1899 he resigned his commission in the 4th
Hussars. He then stood for election to Parliament as Member for Oldham, but was defeated. He went
to South Africa as correspondent for the Morning Postnewspaper and it was to gain a sight of the
front that he travelled in the armoured train that was ambushed between Frere and Chieveley on 15
November 1899. He fought and acted with bravery on that occasion, but compromised his standing as
a journalist in doing so. He was imprisoned at Pretoria but, on 14 January 1900, escaped and made
his way, with assistance, to Durban.
Churchill was then, despite the rule he had brought into being, given a Lieutenancy in the South
African Light Horse. He was at the Battle of Spioenkop and the relief of Ladysmith and then
accompanied Lieutenant-general Ian Hamilton’s column on the march to Pretoria. He left South Africa
on 4 July 1900 and published
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