The Mounted Police of Natal by H. P. Holt, gives an interesting account of a police force which have a fighting record second to that of no similar body of men in the world, and on two occasions they have had the distinguished honour of covering the retreat of British troops. The first was during the retirement of Lord Chelmford's force from Isandhwana to Rorke's Drift, on the 23rd January 1879 and the second was after the disaster at Laing's Nek in the Boer War of 1881, when the column under General Colley retired to Mount Prospect on the 28th January. The corps has had its ups and downs, but it is to-day the best organized police force in South Africa.
Good second hand. Original red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover with vignette, and gilt lettering to spine (faded). Inscription on inside front cover. Gilt top edge. Light spotting on uncut edges. Staining on first and last pages.
