Title

'The Reddersburg Mishap: Men of the Irish Rifles and Mounted Infantry Delivering Up Their Arms', 190 Creator: Melton Prior.

Caption

'The Reddersburg Mishap: Men of the Irish Rifles and Mounted Infantry Delivering Up Their Arms', 1901. Troops led by General Christiaan de Wet attacked a convoy of 600 of the Royal Irish Rifles on April 4, 1900, and obtained their surrender at Reddersburg in the Orange Free State. From "South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. V", by Louis Creswicke. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]

Credit line

Photo12/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G32_278

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

64,4Mb (3,4Mb) / 18,3in x 13,7in / 5487 x 4103 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation road people male man men South Africa arts country book guy British weapon weapons gun guns capture South African Transvaal cart military war location Armed Forces Victorian century Britain rifle literature roadside concept troops B&W Army warfare month surrender road Transport Regiment surrendering April infantry black & white black and white B W weaponry 1900s 20th century British Army The Print Collector Boer Boer Wars British Empire Free State Orange Free State TGN Boers portrait Melton Prior Christiaan de Wet Wet de Wet Christian de Wet Christiaan Rudolf de Wet Louis Prior Melton 1899-1902 TC and EC Jack Jack wayside 2nd Boer war Second Boer War Royal Irish Rifles TC and EC Second Transvaal War South Africa and the Transvaal War Louis Creswicke Creswicke Christiaan de Christiaan Reddersburg portrait