NO 10 MOUNTAIN BATTERY, ROYAL ARTILLERY, IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1889-1899

摘要

The writer is a lawyer by profession (BL(Hons)LLB), but is now retired, having served as Legal Adviser and later Town Clerk of the City of Pietermaritzburg and previously as a senior magistrate in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Part One of this article describes the organisation of No 10 Mountain Battery, Royal Artillery, the first and, until 1899, the only permanently estabnshed mountain battery of the Royal Artillery to serve in South Africa, and reviews the first ten years of its service. Part Two, which follows in Military History Journal, Vol 14 No 5, June 2009, describes the battery's ordnance, equipment and uniforms. Sources for both parts will appear at the end of Part Two.