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Magersfontein and its Aftermath 175 of Magersfontein, had occasioned scenes of unprecedented jubilation all across Scotland. Notes 1 Spiers, ‘The Scottish Soldier in the Boer War’, in Gooch (ed.), The Boer War, pp. 152–65, 273–7, and The Victorian soldier in Africa, ch. 9. 2 Kinross-shire Advertiser, 14 October 1899, p. 2; Kilmarnock Standard, 7 October 1899, p. 4; Greenock Herald, 14 October 1899, p. 2; Highland News, 14 October 1899, p. 2. 3 Scotsman, 11 October 1899, p. 6. 4 Hedderwick, though critical of the pre-war diplomacy, found opposition to the war very unpopular in the northern burghs. He trimmed his opinions over the coming year and was even described as a ‘Liberal Imperialist’ at the time of his electoral defeat in October 1900. ‘Mr Hedderwick on Tour’ and ‘The General Election’, Ross-shire Journal, 13 October 1899, p. 4, and 19 October 1900, p. 6. 5 Parl. Deb., fourth series, vol. lxxvii (19 October 1899), cols 367–72; see also Brown, ‘ “Echoes of Midlothian”’, pp. 164, 171. 6 ‘The Liberal leader and the War’, Perthshire Advertiser, 20 November 1899, p. 2; NLS, Rosebery Mss, Ms. 10019, ff. 125–6, R. Munro- Ferguson to Lord Rosebery, 30 October 1899, and Haldane Mss, Ms. 5965, ff. 229–30, R. B. Haldane to his mother, 23 June 1901; see also P. B. Jacobson, ‘Rosebery and Liberal Imperialism 1899–1902’, Journal of British Studies, 13 (1973), pp. 83–107; G. L. Bernstein, ‘Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and the Liberal Imperialists’, Journal of British Studies, 23 (1983), pp. 105–24; and H. C. G. Matthew, The Liberal Imperialists: The ideas and politics of a post-Gladstonian elite (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), pp. 167, 171–80. 7 R. Price, An Imperial War and the British Working Class: Working-Class Attitudes and Reactions to the Boer War 1899–1902 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972), pp. 82–7; M. Shinwell, Lead with the Left: My First Ninety-six Years (London: Cassell, 1981), pp. 22–3; Edinburgh Evening News, 21 December 1899, p. 2. 8 T. Shaw, Letters to Isabel (London: Cassell, 1921), pp. 194–5; D. A. Hamer, John Morley: Liberal Intellectual in Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968), pp. 311–28; S. Koss (ed.), The Pro-Boers: The Anatomy of an Antiwar Movement (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973), p. xxxviii. 9 South African War Record of the 1st Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders 1900-1-2 (Inverness: Northern Counties Printing Company, 1903), p. 11. 10 ‘Departure of the Seaforth Highlanders’, Inverness Courier, 24 October 1899, p. 6; GH Museum, PB 92, Private Ford, diary, 8 November 1899;
176 The Scottish Soldier and Empire NAM, Acc. No. 1977-04-56, Preston Mss, 2nd Lieutenant J. Preston to his mother and Alison, 4 November 1899; ‘The Gordon Highlanders’ Leave of Edinburgh’, Scotsman, 9 November 1899, p. 8. 11 ‘The 2nd Seaforths off to the Front’, Ross-shire Journal, 27 October 1899, p. 7. 12 Illustrated London News, 21, 28 October, 11 and 18 November 1899, pp. 575, 635, 680 and 711. 13 S. Badsey, ‘War Correspondents in the Boer War’, in Gooch (ed.), The Boer War, pp. 187–202, 279–83; Wilkinson-Latham, From Our Special Correspondent, p. 252. 14 ‘Letter from an Ayr Fusilier at the Front’, Ayr Advertiser, 28 December 1899, p. 5; ‘Letters from a Glasgow Man with Gatacre’s Column’, Glasgow Herald, 26 December 1899, p. 6; ‘Letter from a Black Watch Sergeant’, Perthshire Constitutional & Journal, 8 January 1900, p. 3. 15 ‘Letter from a Seaforth Highlander’, Inverness Courier, 22 December 1899, p. 3; ‘Scarcity of Water’, Western Morning News, 16 January 1900, p. 8; ‘A Soldier’s Letter’, Ayr Advertiser, 18 January 1900, p. 7. 16 GH Museum, PB 175, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir N. Macready, diary, pp. 3–6; ‘Whisky in the Boer Camp. A Lively Letter’, Inverness Courier, 1 December 1899, p. 5; ‘Old Blairbridge Boys at the Front’, Falkirk Herald, 11 August 1900, p. 6; Greenhill Gardyne, Life of a Regiment, vol. 3, pp. 25–6. 17 ‘The Battle of Modder River’, Glasgow Evening News, 2 January 1900, p. 2; ‘The Modder River Battle’, Glasgow Herald, 26 December 1899, p. 6; ‘Letter from a Stirling Soldier Killed at Magersfontein’, Stirling Observer, 3 January 1900, p. 6; R. P. Dunn-Pattison, The History of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1910), p. 270. 18 ‘Letter from a Seaforth Highlander at Modder’, Ross-shire Journal, 5 January 1900, p. 6. 19 ‘Letters from the Front’, Manchester Evening News, 9 January 1900, p. 3, and the letter from Private Wallace Maxwell in the Falkirk Herald, 3 February 1900, p. 6. 20 BWRA, 0396/2, Mowbray Berkeley Mss, Major T. Mowbray Berkeley to his mother, 27 November 1899; see also ‘A Perthshire Soldier and the Modder Fight’, Strathearn Herald, 13 January 1900, p. 2. 21 ‘Back from the Front. A Wounded Halifax Reservist’, Bradford Daily Argus, 12 January 1900, p. 4. 22 Major-General Sir F. B. Maurice and M. H. Grant, History of the War in South Africa 1899–1902, 4 vols (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1906), vol. 1, pp. 301, 329, 374. 23 TNA, PRO, WO 32/7870, Lieutenant-Colonel T. W. Hughes-Hallett to the Chief Staff Officer, 1st Division, 13 December 1899, and Lord
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CONTENTS List of Maps List of Figur
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Highlanders in Egypt 77 as ‘about
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Highlanders in Egypt 79 Sergeant-Ma
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Highlanders in Egypt 81 vindication
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Highlanders in Egypt 83 The Glasgow
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Entering the Sudan 89 country, wher
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