Lieutenant Charles D'Aguilar Pope
1878 (14 Apr.) letter to his mother, headed "Camp Isidinge" and containing two rough sketches.
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1878 (14 Apr.) letter to his mother, headed "Camp Isidinge" and containing two rough sketches.
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Extract:
At last I have a table to write at and ink and pen in a tent: we have been out a month today and goodness knows when we shall go in. All the other operations here against the Kaffirs failed as we all knew they would and the troops were withdrawn mostly (we're only a couply or three miles from Mount Kempst still though) and the Kaffirs are trooping back again to their old positions at Murrays Krantz. Some of Carrington's Horse, 50 just came in who were forced to bolt from our very camping ground by about 700 Kaffirs losing one man so we expect to be ordered up there again instead of into King to refit.
Note:
Later in the letter, Pope mentions "The bush we've just left, the Perie"; the Perie Bush was just to the North of King Williams Town and operations there were being conducted against Kreli and Sandile and the Gcalekas.
Pope was in command of "G" company at the battle of Islandhwana where he was killed on 22nd January 1879.
He was a skilled draughtsman; his sketches appeared in the "Graphic".
At last I have a table to write at and ink and pen in a tent: we have been out a month today and goodness knows when we shall go in. All the other operations here against the Kaffirs failed as we all knew they would and the troops were withdrawn mostly (we're only a couply or three miles from Mount Kempst still though) and the Kaffirs are trooping back again to their old positions at Murrays Krantz. Some of Carrington's Horse, 50 just came in who were forced to bolt from our very camping ground by about 700 Kaffirs losing one man so we expect to be ordered up there again instead of into King to refit.
Note:
Later in the letter, Pope mentions "The bush we've just left, the Perie"; the Perie Bush was just to the North of King Williams Town and operations there were being conducted against Kreli and Sandile and the Gcalekas.
Pope was in command of "G" company at the battle of Islandhwana where he was killed on 22nd January 1879.
He was a skilled draughtsman; his sketches appeared in the "Graphic".