SOME NOTES ON THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

With Reference to Indian Volunteers. By Captain E. Dawson, R.V.R., Late Sergeant, Lumsden’s Horse.

United Service Institution of India.

10 pages, printed blue light card wrappers.

'With the Compliments of the Author' written in ink across the front cover. Also at the foot of the cover, 'Published in the Quarterly Journal of the Institution, Simla, April 1901.'

This was in Volume XXX, no. 143 of the Journal.

Not in A South African Bibliography or Hackett (R.G.) SOUTH AFRICAN WAR BOOKS, An Illustrated Bibliography.

Dawson describes how he joined the Volunteers, 'Having previously (in December 1899) offered myself as a volunteer officer for active employment in the war, and not having been fortunate enough to be accepted, in January 1900 I obtained leave of absence from my civil service appointment, and went to Calcutta to join the Mounted Infantry which was then being raised for service in South Africa. Colonel D.M. Lumsden (Surma Valley Lighe Horse), who had obtained the sanction of the Government to raise the regiment, and made a generous donation…it was a corps of gentlemen….most of us could shoot fairly straight.'

The portrait photograph below appears on page 269 of Pearse (Henry H.S.) The History of Lumsden's Horse, London 1903