3-070-811 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Captain James MacSwiney, 94th Regiment, killed in South Africa, 1881. First Boer War. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Bassano. 'Captain James MacSwiney, of the 94th Regiment, died from his wounds received in the disastrous engagement with the Dutch Transvaal insurgents, while marching from Lydenburg to Pretoria, on Dec. 20, 1880. He was born in 1854, was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, and entered the Army, as Lieutenant, in November, 1875, from the 2nd Middlesex Militia. He obtained a first-class certificate at the School of Musketry, Hythe, and was appointed Instructor of Musketry to his regiment in 1878. He served all through the Zulu War, and was present at Ulundi. He afterwards served in the campaign against Sekukuni, and obtained his captaincy on Dec. 1, last year. He was a gallant and efficient officer, whose loss is deplored not [only] by his regiment, but by a large circle of friends'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.