Having recently returned from a visit to one of the Natal battlefields, David Alston went through some family papers and found there is another side to this oft-told story.
went through some family papers and found there is another side to this oft-told storyGraves and a monument of British colonial soldiers who fell at the Battle of Spioenkop. Picture: GETTY IMAGES / FIONA HANSON / PA IMAGES
After an exhaustive perusal of some newspaper cuttings found in possession of my late great-grandfather Scoop Schoombie, the then editor of the now defunct Bergville Bugle, the real reason why General Redvers Buller failed to send support to Alexander Thorneycroft at the height of the Battle of Spioenkop can now be revealed
In documenting the history of the battle, that well-known historian Anon , has this to say op cit, et seq, and possibly even ad lib:At this crucial moment Buller, for some obscure reason ordered the King’s Royal Rifles to withdraw.
The papers in my possession unfortunately do not record what passed between Thorneycroft and Buller when they finally met in Ladysmith, but rumour has it that most of the Redcoats’ instruments were irreparably damaged, and the group never appeared in public again.
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