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The Hunt for De Wet, August 1900
Private Frank Everett was with the 1st Northampton Rifle Volunteers and left for
South Africa on 14 February 1900. His unit was with Lord Methuen’s column in the hunt
for Christiaan De Wet’s commando in the Transvaal in August. He wrote home from
Zeerust on 23 August.
My dear Mother
I have 3 letters which I wrote some time ago to the family but have not had a chance of sending yet,
and expect you will be looking out for them. I hope to be able to send them soon with this one as we
expect to be at Mafeking in 3 days time. On the 12th of this month I was very pleased to receive
letters from Lucy and Ethel, & chocolate from Maria, & cocoa from Lucy. There are three or four
mails due to us so I am hoping we shall find them waiting for us at Mafeking.
24th. For some reason or other we are stopping here today but expect we shall be going on tomorrow.
I expect you will have seen some account of our doings in the papers lately. We have been having a
worse time than ever, but they say we are going to have at least a fortnight’s rest when we get to
Mafeking. I suppose the news has reached Kettering that J. Bernard Cooper was shot through the heart
while in action at Tigerberg on the day after Bank Holiday. He was the only one killed that day on our
side with 14 wounded. We left him with several others who were not well at Potchefstroom attached
to the Welsh Fusiliers when we left that place on the Monday. We marched about 14 miles to the Vaal
River. Stopped De Wet who was supposed to be in the Free State from getting into the Transvaal. We
expected to stop by the drift we were at till next day, but got orders that night that De Wet had already
crossed by another drift, & we had got to move off early in the morning. Next morning we did a
forced march of 10 miles when we began to hear the big guns. We marched more or less all that day,
mostly up hill, always in sound of the guns & rifles, & in sight of our own men, but never near enough
to do any firing ourselves as De Wet’s mob was retiring all the while. That was the day poor Cooper
got shot. It seems after we left Potchefstroom the Fusiliers were ordered to get ready to come out for
3 days, & they wanted all those who could march to do so & so no doubt Cooper thought his foot
would stand the 3 days & offered to come. He was shot whilst they were crossing an open plain to
attack the Boers on a ridge of hills. It seems he was very excited & would not keep down, although he
was told to do so time after time. It does not say much for the Boers shooting that they could only kill
one considering the positions they were able to pick.
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