90th (Perthshire Volunteers - Light Infantry)
Captain Aubrey Maurice Maude
cover 1879 (4 June) XU5 to "Col. G.A. Maude C.B., The Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace, London" endorsed "On Active Service. No stamps available. A. Maude Capt. 90th L.I.", also endorsed by the recipient "Recd. 15th July - on March to Ulundi 4th June", showing "6d" due h.s., backstamped "G.P.O./12 6/1879/NATAL" and "LONDON S.W./GN/JY 14/79" with three other London datestamps on reverse. Photo.
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cover 1879 (4 June) XU5 to "Col. G.A. Maude C.B., The Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace, London" endorsed "On Active Service. No stamps available. A. Maude Capt. 90th L.I.", also endorsed by the recipient "Recd. 15th July - on March to Ulundi 4th June", showing "6d" due h.s., backstamped "G.P.O./12 6/1879/NATAL" and "LONDON S.W./GN/JY 14/79" with three other London datestamps on reverse. Photo.
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Captain Maude served with the regiment throughout the campaign and was present at the engagement on Zunguin Nek, the battle of Kambula and at the battle of Ulundi. His courage during the battle of Kambula is described by Donald Morris in "The Washing of the Spears" as follows:
"A vicious little fight developed amongst the maddened cattle crammed into the kraal, and then the infantry extricated itself and retreated along the palisade to the shelter of the redoubt. Wood stood in the path of the retreat and hurried the men streaming past him to safety. A private, late in leaving the kraal, was hit in the leg and fell, and Wood started down the slope to his aid. Captain Aubrey Maurice Maude, 1st/90th, restrained him. "Really, sir," he exclaimed, "it isn't your place to pick up single men." He went down himself with Lysons and Lieutenant Francis Smith, and the three officers brought the man in, although Smith took a bullet in the arm that invalided him out of the fight and all the way home to England."
The recipient, Lieutenant Colonel George Ashley Maude, C.B., had seen service in the Crimea at Alma, Balaklava and the siege of Sebastopol and, in 1879, was Crown Equerry.
Captain Maude served with the regiment throughout the campaign and was present at the engagement on Zunguin Nek, the battle of Kambula and at the battle of Ulundi. His courage during the battle of Kambula is described by Donald Morris in "The Washing of the Spears" as follows:
"A vicious little fight developed amongst the maddened cattle crammed into the kraal, and then the infantry extricated itself and retreated along the palisade to the shelter of the redoubt. Wood stood in the path of the retreat and hurried the men streaming past him to safety. A private, late in leaving the kraal, was hit in the leg and fell, and Wood started down the slope to his aid. Captain Aubrey Maurice Maude, 1st/90th, restrained him. "Really, sir," he exclaimed, "it isn't your place to pick up single men." He went down himself with Lysons and Lieutenant Francis Smith, and the three officers brought the man in, although Smith took a bullet in the arm that invalided him out of the fight and all the way home to England."
The recipient, Lieutenant Colonel George Ashley Maude, C.B., had seen service in the Crimea at Alma, Balaklava and the siege of Sebastopol and, in 1879, was Crown Equerry.