troyte

Updated: June 8, 2025

Lieutenant G. Acland Troyte, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 25th Mounted Infantry, states: 'I was wounded on October 25 in a rearguard action with Colonel Benson's force, near Kaffirstadt. The Boers came up and stripped me of everything except my drawers, shirt, and socks, they gave me an old pair of trousers, and later a coat. Lieutenant Reginald Seymour, 1st Batt.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct