Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• May 18th - First international peace conference opens at the Hague
• October 10th - Start of the Boer War
• Dreyfuss is pardoned by Presidential decree
• Edward Elgar writes the Enigma Variations
• Johann Strauss dies , aged 74
• First performance of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya

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November 18th

Special Transvaal War Edition.

Mainly about the Devonshire or Gordon Highlanders Regiments

Portraits of killed or wounded - with individual photos:

• Lieutenant H R GUNNING of the Devonshire Regiment (formerly Northamptonshire Regiment), educated Clifton College.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Percival WILFORD, 1st Battalion Gloucester Regiment - Royal Irish Fusiliers
• Capt. W B SILVER, Lieutenant W D DOONER - Royal Irish Fusiliers,
• Capt. Stuart DUNCAN of Gloucester Regt. taken prisoner,
• Lieutenant William LACHLAN FORBES, wounded, Imperial Light Horse.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Edward KEITH-FALCONER, 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, killed in action (son of Major the Hon. Charles KEITH-FALCONER and grandson of the seventh Earl of Kintore).
• Surgeon-Major Edward W GRAY of Royal Army Medical Corps,
• Major Henry E Buchanan RIDDELL (born 1860) of 1st Devonshire Regiment, wounded.
• Captain William B LAFONE of the 1st Devonshire Regiment, wounded,
• Corporal Rupert WICKHAM of the Imperial Light Horse, wounded.
• Shoeing-Smith A HISCOCK (18th Hussars),
• Captain S DUNCAN (1st Gloucestershire Regiment).
• Several drawings taken from photographs of men of the Gordon Highlanders and Devonshire Regiment.
• Photographs of Captain J N C KENNEDY (Royal Engineers),
• Mr Frederic W H HARRIS (chairman of the Coal Factors' Society),
• Lord Osborne De Vere BEAUCLERK (17th Lancers),
• Ottmar MERGENTHALER (inventor of the linotype machine),
• Lieutenant the Hon. Ralph Legge POMEROY (second son of Viscount Harberton) of 5th Dragoon Guards.
• Lieutenant W J C FLETCHER, 1st Battalion of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (died of sickness),
• Robert Abbot HADFIELD (the newly elected Master Cutler of Sheffield).
• General photographs of Border Mounted Rifles, Ladysmith Camp,
• the King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) on board the S.S. Arawa,
• Colonel SPENS and officers of the 2nd Shropshire Light Infantry,
• Officers of the third infantry division ammunition column, the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders leaving Harrington Dock, Liverpool on board the S.S. Cheshire,
• Colonel NEELD and officers of Household Cavalry,
• Colonel BANFIELD and officers of the Welsh Regiment.
• Photograph with names Royal East Kent Yeomanry. Identifies Trooper FOSTER, Trooper SOLE, Trooper CLARKE, Sergeant MUDFORD, Trooper BUTCHER, Sergeant MONCKTON, Trooper DEVERSON, Trooper PALMER, Sergeant-Major CARLISLE, Trooper TICE, Trooper ROBINSON.
• Individual named photographs of officers at the seat of operations: Colonel Audley Dallas NEELD (Commanding the Composite Regiment of Household Cavalry), Colonel FRC CARLETON (Royal Irish Fusiliers, prisoner), Colonel BROOKE (commanding Connaught Rangers), Major S HUMPHREY (Glouscestershire Regiment, prisoner), Lieutenant ETHELSTAN (Naval Brigade, Ladysmith), Capt the Hon Hedworth LAMBTON (Commanding Naval Brigade at Ladysmith), Colonel A H PAGET (Commanding Scots Guards).
• Cover shows drawing of the Gordon Highlanders on their way to Elandslaagte.

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