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16th Battery South Div. R.G.A. during the Anglo-Boer War
Much has been written about the Anglo-Boer War 1899 to 1902, but the majority of writings are about generals, their successes and failures. Little has been written about the Royal Garrison of Artillery, even less about an individual Battery, and the ordinary Gunner rarely gets a mention - until now. The book is about the 16the Battery Southern Division Royal Garrison of Artillery converted into a heavy battery at the beginning of the Boer War, and in which my grandfather, Henry Powell, served as a gunner. He could not have been prepared for the coming events. There is quite a contrast from manning a quiet Maltese coastal defence station in peacetime, to lugging a four and a half ton gun, pulled by oxen for hundreds of miles, being constantly bombarded by the now legendary 'Long Tom' - 155 mm Creusot, magnificently manoeuvred by Boer gunners. The extremes of temperatures, very hot by day, often freezing at night, the dust, and worst of all - typhoid. Prepared or not, a boy set off to war, and a man returned. This is his story.
