ON ACTIVE SERVICE WITH THE S.J.A.B. SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899-1902

With Twenty Five Illustrations.

First edition: 318 + 4 page appendix, frontispiece portrait, 10 black and white plates, several black and white illustrations, booksellers ticket on the front paste down end paper, original green cloth titled gilt on the upper cover and spine, a very good copy.

Cover title: On active service in South Africa.

Hackett (R.G.) South African War Books page v, ‘A campaign diary from November 1899 to December 1901 relating the author’s experiences in the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Imperial Military Railways. Inder, a member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, was employed at military hospitals near Cape Town and at Johannesburg. He describes fully the routine at the establishments and comments briefly on the prevailing war situation. In June 1901 he resigned the hospital service to join the staff of the Imperial Military Railways. He was engaged at Johannesburg but later moved to Bloemfontein. In the course of his duties in the Orange River Colony he was taken ill and died at Bloemfontein in January 1902. An active service roll of the Kendal Division S.J.A.B.is appended.’