The War Diary of Burgher Jack Lane 1899-1900. Signed
Author: Edited by William Lane
Publisher: Van Riebeeck Society
Edition: Van Riebeeck Society Second Series No. 32 2001
ISBN: 0-9584112-8-X
Language: English
Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. Dedicated and signed copy
Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket
Pages: 161. Print with images and maps
Additional Information
John (Jack) Moody Lane, was a born Ulsterman, and later became a burgher of the South African Republic. As a storekeeper in the hamlet of Hartbeesfontein in the Western Transvaal, he was still loyal to the British cause, and faced dire penalties if he did not go to war with his commando. Refusing to bear arms against his mother country, he was placed in charge of the ammunition in the main laager of General Piet Cronjé, Deputy Commandant General of the Republic, in command of all the Boer forces on the South-Western front.
To establish the proper context, the editor (his grandson) has placed before the reader facts, views and opinions including those emerging from other contemporary accounts; archival material; family letters and standard histories. Reference is also made to Jacks spending the rest of the war as a prisoner on St Helena and his selection after the war as a member of a delegation of Boer farmers to tour Canada, Australia and New Zealand with their wives, to report back on Agriculture in the Empire. He deposited the diary after the war in Ulster with his eldest brother.
In 1922 Jack Lane was eventually awarded the Medalje voor de Anglo-Boere Oorlog 1899-1902, which recognised his services as Opperwachtmeester.
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