Title: In the Ranks of the C.I.V
First published: 1900
Description: Having read only the first 60 pages on line, I find it to be an exceptionally well written and thoroughly absorbing account of an english soldier, a volunteer driver with the cavalry, leaving England and journeying to the South African interior to fight.  Written in a diary style, with descriptive gems, it offers an entertaining protrayal of his life on board the troopship "Montfort" and  in a foreign country at the turn of the 20th Century.
Subjects: Army, Boer War, British Personal narratives, Campaigns, Diaries, Great Britain, Great Britain. Army. City of London Imperial Volunteers, Great Britain. Army. Honourable Artillery Company, Honourable Artillery Company of London, Personal narratives, Personal narratives, British, Regimental histories, South African War, 1899-1902, Great britain, army, Biography
Places: Beaufort West, Bloemfontein, Cape Town, England, Matjiesfontein
People: Erskine Childers (1870-1922)
Time periods: 1900
LC classification: DT1916 .C45 1999