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seat. As soon as the war was over Lynch decided to return to England and wrote a letter to The
Timesnewspaper to say so. On 11 June 1902 he was arrested at Dover and charged with treason. It
was said that in January 1903 he achieved the doubtful distinction of being the last man in England to
be sentenced to death by hanging, drawing and quartering; in fact, he was merely to be hanged, a
sentence that was later commuted to life imprisonment. He served only a year of his sentence and
stood for Parliament once more, becoming the member for West Clare. He lost his seat in 1918,
having become thoroughly unpopular in his attempts to recruit Irish troops for service in the First
World War, and died in London in 1934.
Reference:
Wallace, R. L., The Australians at the Boer War (Canberra, The Australian War Memorial and the
Australian Government Publishing Service, 1976).
Lyttleton, Major-General Neville G.,
1845–1931
Neville Gerald Lyttleton was one of the few generals to emerge from the Second Boer War with an
enhanced reputation. He took over the command of British troops in South Africa from Lord
Kitchener in 1902.
Lyttleton joined the Rifle Brigade in 1865 and saw active service in India and Egypt. In
September 1898 he commanded one of the two infantry brigades under Kitchener in the Sudan. He
was given command of the 4th Brigade, a brigade of rifle regiments, under Sir Redvers Buller in
Natal. At the Battle of Spioenkop he pressed forward on his own initiative to take Twin Peaks, the
height on the British right from which the Boers were shelling the hilltop. He was ordered to
withdraw when the main hill was abandoned. At the Battle of Vaalkrans his brigade took the first
objective and held it, but was again ordered to withdraw when it became clear that enfilading Boer
shellfire from a Long Tom (Creusot 155mm) jeopardised the position. In the advance to Ladysmith he
commanded the 2nd Division and was thereafter active in the guerrilla phase of the war.
After the war, in the reorganisation of the army high command, he became the first Chief of the
General Staff and promoted training in fieldcraft and marksmanship for both infantry and cavalry,
thereby helping to make the British Regulars a force effective beyond their size in the First World
War.
See also:
Colenso, Battle of; Ladysmith, Siege of; Spioenkop, Battle of, Vaalkrans, Battle of.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
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