. The History of the Maidstone Companies, Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers) : by Frederick J. Wood. thColonel Plumers column, operating in the EasternTransvaal, and saw much fighting with the ColonialBushmen. Private Coopers first experience up country was atBloemfontein, where, on arrival he was isolated forten days owing to his having come from an area infectedby the plague. He then proceeded to Pretoria, andafter six days with the details there was sent out withColonel Bensons ill-fated column, going first to Middel-burg and afterwards operating in the Eastern column was e
. The History of the Maidstone Companies, Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers) : by Frederick J. Wood. thColonel Plumers column, operating in the EasternTransvaal, and saw much fighting with the ColonialBushmen. Private Coopers first experience up country was atBloemfontein, where, on arrival he was isolated forten days owing to his having come from an area infectedby the plague. He then proceeded to Pretoria, andafter six days with the details there was sent out withColonel Bensons ill-fated column, going first to Middel-burg and afterwards operating in the Eastern column was engaged by the enemy at Dolstroom,Blood River Valley, Carolina, Ermelo, and the latter place they lost rather heavily in killed andwounded, and when the column arrived at Brakkenlaagteit was in a somewhat weakened condition, and sustaineda severe reverse, losing sixty-eight killed and threehundred wounded. Among the killed were ColonelBenson and Colonel Guinness. There were only thirteenmen of the Royal Army Medical Corps with the column,and they had a very trying time attending to the. The late Corporal A. F. Colvin. Maidstone Companies, (Vols.) 63 wounded in addition to the sick already in their managed to attend to them all, however, and soonafterwards assistance was obtained, and the woundedtaken by easy stages to Springs. Private Cooper wasordered to Standerton while the column re-organised,but he never rejoined it, as, being time-expired, he herereceived orders to return home, having served in SouthAfrica nearly two years. Private E. C. Crittenden joined the 2nd BrigadeBearer Company at Standerton, under Brigadier-GeneralG. Hamilton. The field of operations was betweenStanderton and Klerksdorp, and in the MagaliesbergMountains, where on one occasion he met Private , another member of the Corps. He finished upat Klerksdorp, and during his journey to the coastnarrowly escaped death, the train immediately followingthe one in which he
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