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mandant-general J. H. De la Rey. As his troops were running low on rations after crossing the
Klip River, Hamilton agreed with Major-general J. D. P. French to move quickly. French’s cavalry
moved west and Hamilton’s two brigades made a frontal assault on the ridge defended by the Boers.
On the left the 21st Brigade were headed by the City Imperial Volunteers, moving cautiously, making
good use of the cover, bearing in mind recent exhortations to preserve an open formation, and well
supported with artillery fire. On the right the Gordon Highlanders led the 19th Brigade forward,
magnificent in their two, long, straight lines, but showing up prominently against the recently fired and
blackened terrain. The ridge was cleared by late afternoon and French had advanced to a position
north of Doornkop. The Boer defence was now entirely compromised and they had no alternative but
to retreat. The Gordons had, however, suffered over 100 casualties.
See also:
Burnham, Major Frederick Russell.
Reference:
Churchill, Winston S., Ian Hamilton’s March (London, Longmans, Green, 1900) and Leo Cooper,
1989 in The Boer War;
Marix Evans, Martin, The Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999).
Dorp
A village. Dorp is the equivalent to “thorpe” in English.
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan,
1859–1930
The author of the Sherlock Holmes stories was a medical doctor and after the reverses of “Black
Week” wanted to serve his country in the war. Unfit as a soldier, he went out as a doctor and
performed outstanding service in the enteric (typhoid) fever epidemic in Bloemfontein, for which he
was knighted. He wrote persuasively of his experiences and views after his return to Britain.
Third child and first son of Charles and Mary Doyle, Arthur studied medicine in Edinburgh and
benefited from the teaching of Joseph Bell, who was to some extent a prototype for the fictional
character Sherlock Holmes. Arthur graduated in 1881 and practised in Southsea from 1882 to 1890.
His first work of fiction, A Study in Scarlet,appeared in 1887 and his detective stories were well
known by the time the South African war of 1899 broke out. Doyle was rejected by the Middlesex
Yeomanry as being too old and too fat, but almost at once was asked by the philanthropist John
Langman to become senior physician in a field hospital he was sending to South Africa. Doyle paid
his own expenses and received no salary.
The hospital staff reached Bloemfontein on 2 April 1900 and the fifty tons of equipment arrived
soon after, allowing the hospital to be set up in the pavilion of the Bloemfontein Ramblers’ Cricket
Club. The 160 beds were soon filled with victims of enteric (typhoid) fever. The civilian hospital
already had 1,700 patients
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