A SOLDIER'S DIARY IN SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902

First edition: 366 pages, frontispiece, numerous sketches in the text, navy blue cloth boards titled gilt on the upper cover and spine, which has faded, uncut fore edge and bottom edges, corners slightly bumped, a very good copy.

Jackson served in the Mounted Infantry throughout the war in the Transvaal and the O.F.S. and gives a racy, well-written account that offers an excellent view of the counter-guerrilla war as experienced in ranks of a mounted unit. Ryno Greenwall, in Artists and Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War, page 151, writes, 'Jackson's book was based on manuscript notes and illustrations which he had sent back to his family in England. The publisher mentions in a preface that the author was offered a commission twice but declined. He apologises for Jackson's expressive illustrations: "If they should be subjected to an academic criticism which they were not expected to face, it should be mentioned that he has never had a drawing lesson in his life"'.