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between killing a man with an explosive bullet, and smashing him with a lyddite shell . . . I flung
the remainder [of the bullets] into the brook. . .”
Colonel W. F. Stevenson, who served in South Africa and became Professor of Military Surgery
at the Royal Army Medical College, discussed the issue, making reference to the experience of the
Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. Massive exit wounds five inches (12cm) square were caused by
French Lebel rifle rounds, none of which were explosive. In South Africa Stevenson picked up
examples of all the various patterns of “deformable” bullets, but found no explosive ones. He saw
only one true explosive bullet there, of greater diameter than the Mauser with a copper tube filled
with detonating material at the point, evidently for a “sporting weapon”. He was of the opinion that
the wounds said to have been caused by exploding bullets were either the result of expanding or
deformable rounds or the effect of a solid round striking bone and breaking up.
See also:
Rifles.
Reference:
Reitz, Deneys, Commando (London, Faber & Faber, 1929; Prescott Arizona, Wolfe Publishing,
1994); Stevenson, W. F., Wounds in War (London, Longmans, Green, 1910, 3rd edition); West,
Guy and Leonard, A., “Boer War Magazine Lee-Enfield Mark I”, Classic Arms and
Militaria,May/June 1999.
Dundee
At the centre of the coal-mining area of northern Natal, a British colony, Dundee was occupied by
Major-general Sir William Penn Symons with 3,280 infantry, 497 cavalry and eighteen guns in
October 1899. On 20 October the Boers were driven off in the Battle of Talana, but the position had
become untenable and, with Symons mortally wounded, it fell to Brigadier-general James Yule to
extricate the troops from Dundee and lead them back to Ladysmith. The Boers sacked the abandoned
town, but treated the wounded left in the hospital well. Commandant-general Piet Joubert then made it
his headquarters. It was liberated in the British advance of June 1900.
See also:
Talana, Battle of; Ladysmith, Siege of.
Reference:
Jones, Huw M. and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902
(Milton Keynes, The Military Press, 1999).
Dundonald, Major-General The Earl of,
1852–1935
D. M. B. H. Cochrane joined the Life Guards in 1870 and served with the Nile Expedition of 1884–
85 in command of the 2nd Life Guards detachment of the Camel Corps. He inherited the earldom in
1885. He commanded the Mounted Brigade under General Sir Redvers Buller at the Battle of
Colenso and found, but was not permitted to exploit, an opportunity to outflank the Boers at Acton
Homes in January 1900. He took part in the relief of Ladysmith and the advance into the Transvaal. In
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