3-070-521 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Transvaal War: with the Natal Field Force - an outlying picket at dawn, [South Africa], 1881. 'The welcome news of the cessation of this wretched and mistaken conflict [ie the First Boer War] has already been made known. It involves the frank concession of self-government to the Boers...[Our Illustration] from a Sketch by Captain Ernest Thurlow, of the 60th Rifles, [shows] a picket of the Natal Field Force, roused at break of day - and wrapping their shivering bodies in their great-coats - upon the occasion of a dubious alarm, which their officer tries to make out by the use of his field-glass, beyond the ken of the vigilant sentries at their post...We trust that Englishmen and Dutchmen, who ought to be friends, will never again be compelled to meet each other with hostile intent'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.