ANGLO-BOER WAR DIARY OF HERBERT GWYNNE HOWELL

With introduction, editing of the text and historical notes by Andre Wessels.

Source Publication no. 11 by the Human Sciences Research Council Pretoria.

1986 first edition, pictorial blue covers, dust jacket, 218 pages, large folding map in rear pocket. A very good copy.

The Anglo-Boer War diary of Herbert Gwynne Howell is the eleventh in this series, but the first written by a British soldier. Herbert Gwynne Howell was born and bred in Wales, but came to South Africa as a young man and joined the Cape Mounted Riflemen (CMR), one of the finest corps of horsemen of its time. During the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) the CMR formed part of the Colonial Division and Gwynne Howell saw action in the North-Eastern Cape and at the siege of Jammersberg Drift near Wepener. He also took part in the first De Wet hunt.

While still a gunner, Gwynne Howell attracted the attention of his superiors and was offered a commission in the Royal Field Artillery (RFA). As a member of the 78th Battery RFA he spent the greater part of the guerilla war in the Western Transvaal, doing garrison and convoy duty or pursuing Boer commandos.

Andre Wessels, a researcher of the Division for Historical Source Study and Multidisciplinary Re- search, wrote the introduction and edited and annotated the manuscript.

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