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The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry Cavalry, 23rd Co., I.Y.. A record of incidents connected with the services of the first contingent of the D.L.O.Y.C. in the South African Campaign of 1899-1900-1901-1902 [British Army]
L. H. Johnson, 1902
Named on the page for Battle of Spion Kop.
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23–24 January 1900
Battle of Spion Kop
OUR CEMETERY AT FABER’S PUTTS.
they had made, that the action, while it lasted, was as hot as any in which he had ever been engaged, and was as bad as the fight at Spion Kop, from which he had so recently come, to show that this attack at Faber’s Pitts was a most severe and determined fight, and had it not been for the splendid resistance and cool behaviour of our troops—and without selfishness, this applies almost exclusively to our own Yeomanry, who were in such a position as to make them the chief mark and object of attack— who, although paralysed for a time by the suddenness and unexpectedness of the attack, made such a gallant resistance as soon as they realized the situation, that they eventually succeeded in driving the enemy from their strong position, and followed them on foot until they had made sure their retreat was certain defeat:
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