veldt-farms

Updated: June 3, 2025

As we passed through the Karroo somebody remarked that a Cape newspaper had suggested that our yeomen should ultimately settle in the country and continue their pastoral life in the veldt-farms of South Africa. Evidently the journalist who wrote this article imagines that our gallant yeomen were all tillers of the soil.

Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett - With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train