Field-Cornet

Here is a description given at the time by an owner of a farm who entertained Field-Cornet Joubert to breakfast -- a plucky lady who determined to show that the Boers had no terrors for her.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

On this occasion the Colonel left a small party in ambush when he moved off, with the result that when half-a-dozen Boers began rummaging about in the camp they were suddenly invited to hold their hands up, a request which they had of necessity to comply with, one of them being a Field-Cornet and a man of some local importance.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

Field-Cornet Van Zulch, who with Commandant Boshoff, took the officers to Machadodorp, and who is at present a fellow-prisoner, tells me that three officers -- Colonel Roberts, Lieutenants Davis and Lyall -- and 210 soldiers of the Lincolnshire Regiment were taken prisoners, and that four companies of the Scots Greys had early that morning escaped with two guns.

On Commando Dietlof Van Warmelo 1919

The Field-Cornet made us stand in rows, and told off forty men to dig a trench that night.

On Commando Dietlof Van Warmelo 1919

Long Tom had been blown up on Umbulwana Kop, east of Ladysmith, I warned our Field-Cornet that the enemy were busy spying in our neighbourhood at night.

On Commando Dietlof Van Warmelo 1919

I went up to the General, and told him that we were quite willing to fight, and had only off-saddled for a rest by order of our Field-Cornet.

On Commando Dietlof Van Warmelo 1919

Our Field-Cornet, Melt Marais, had told us that we had nothing to see to except provisions for a day or two, as Government would supply us with all necessaries at Zandspruit, where the commandos were to concentrate; so many of us took neither pots, pans, nor mugs.

On Commando Dietlof Van Warmelo 1919

The Field-Cornet promised that the guard would be doubled that night.

On Commando Dietlof Van Warmelo 1919

Villiers, the Harrismith commandant, shot him over the wall, and was in turn shot by Corporal Albrecht, of the Light Horse, who was himself shot by a Field-Cornet, who was in turn shot by Digby-Jones, the sapper.

Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

Vuuren, A.sistant Field-Cornet of the Ward Bovenschoonspruit, declare under oath that we were present at everything stated in the foregoing sworn declaration of Commandant P.A. Cronjé, and that that declaration is correct and in accordance with the truth.

The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896