The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham

Author:Thomas Pakenham [Pakenham, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, General
ISBN: 9780349141947
Google: UARMCgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0349104662
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 1991-10-03T04:00:00+00:00

On Monte Cristo itself, success was more eventful. Lieutenant Crossman, in command of H Company of the leading battalion, the West Yorks, had celebrated his twenty-third birthday that day:

The hill was awfully steep and the top at the centre for about 40 or 50 yards was sheer cliff. When we were nearing the foot of the hill, Kitchener [the Sirdar’s young brother, now commanding the 5th Brigade in Natal] caught me and said: There are two of our companies almost at the top. You have got to catch them up … or the Boers will knock ’em off. … It was an awful climb. Huge boulders all the way & phit! phit! of bullets & whizzz-bang-burr as a shell would go over you & down would go a man, till at last thank God we neared the top. Just as I got up there poor old Berney was shot clean through the head, & Porch was hit in the head. There we lay for some time blazing away at the Boers footing it in the distance…. Then I moved on to the spot where I got Gretton & bound him up. … The shell that scratched his beak knocked us both head over heels as I was shaking his paw & congratulating him on getting safe to the top. Poor old Snakeface! He was wild at being hit and used the most appalling language…. On the way down I stopped to see the last of poor old Berney as they put him in his grave.39

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