field-cornet

• “A couple of hours 'riding, then the farm of an old field-cornet, where we off-saddled and bought a few bundles of forage for our horses.”

  With Steyn and De Wet

• “Whilst we were saddling up the field-cornet and his companion of the night before arrived.”

  With Steyn and De Wet

• “The door was opened, and the strange-mannered old field-cornet entered.”

  With Steyn and De Wet

• “The field-cornet entered into conversation with us whilst our animals were feeding, but omitted to ask us into the house, and kept eyeing us in a puzzled manner, as though we had dropped from Mars.”

  With Steyn and De Wet

• “I wired to my field-cornet at Ladysmith saying I was unavoidably detained, as the phrase goes, and the next few weeks passed quietly by, long hours and hard work, it is true, but on the other hand pleasant companions and”

  With Steyn and De Wet

• “To each of these wards was appointed a field-cornet, who had military duties when a commando was called out.”

  South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899

• “These we took possession of, and with them two Dutchmen and some coloured boys, one of whom had been driver to a field-cornet of Cronjé's.”

  With Rimington

• “Buitendam, the farm of a field-cornet, where a few of the enemy sniped at us as we arrived and had the satisfaction of seeing the whole force turned out after a weary march.”

  The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900

• “Scarcely had they been settled when the field-cornet came down and scattered the people, distributing them among Boer farms.”

  The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs

• “He was a field-cornet from Potchefstroom, and leader of one division of the Boers.”

  The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs

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