The History of the Maidstone Companies, Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers) - by Frederick J. Wood (1907) (14784893145)

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Title: The History of the Maidstone Companies, Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers) : by Frederick J. Wood
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wood, Frederick J
Subjects: Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps
Publisher: Maidstone, (Eng). : "Kent Messenger" Printing Works
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library



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e of wounded men, they did all in their power tosupply him with food and other necessaries for thepatients and himself, and during the whole time he wasthere treated him with the utmost consideration. Atthe end of eleven days the wounded man was sufficientlyrecovered to be moved, and Private Tapsfield conveyedhim in a Cape cart, supplied by the Boers, to Belmont,and thence by train to Kimberley. He rejoined GeneralSettles column at Edenburg, Orange River Colony,and went with it to Dewetsdorp, where the British hadjust sustained a reverse, and brought away the wounded,taking them to Bloemfontein. This was about Christmastime, and Private Tapsfield had made arrangements tohave his Christmas dinner with the members of the firstcontingent stationed there, when the column suddenlyreceived orders to move off again the day before Christ-mas, going in the direction of Victoria, and then rightthrough Orange River Colony to the Transvaal, a fighttaking place at Ooffmanns Drift, on the Vaal, one
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Maidstone Companies, R.A.M.C. (Vols.) 71 officer and fourteen men being wounded. The next dayfighting recommenced, and during the morning the Boersput up a white flag. Stretchers were sent, and twowounded Boers brought in and taken to a farmhouse.Previous to this the women at the farm had been askedwhether there were any men of the house fighting withthe Boers, and they had replied in the negative. If theyhad had anyone the farm would have been burnt. Onseeing one of the wounded men, however, one of thewomen exclaimed, My son, my son ! thus showingthat her previous statement was untrue. The contents ofthe house were consequently destroyed, but it was leftstanding, as one of the Boers was dying and the other justdead. Later in the same day the column was attacked,about thirty prisoners with two galloping maxims beingtaken by the Boers, while twelve men were killed andseveral wounded. After this the column went south toDe Aar, where it was broken up, Private Tapsfield beingsent to Worce