SAILOR SOLDIER - DAVID TYNDALE-BISCOE IN SOUTH AFRICA

  Sailor Soldier - David Tyndale-Biscoe - 2006 - Paperback in very good, clean and tight condition. Based on Commander Tyndale-Biscoe's diaries, the author, who is related, has written a narrative and also looked into his medals. Tyndale-Biscoe was at the siege of Ladysmith and also a member of the pioneer column. The following is taken from Major Frank Johnson's Book, 'Great Days, the autobiography of an Empire Pioneer,' (p. 152). "I had told Biscoe to take his Naval men and cut the straightest tree he could find, by no means an easy task, when practically the only trees were massasah-growing far from straight. All those present paraded at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 13, all the land claimed by Lo Bengula as described in the Rhodes-Rudd Concession was annexed to the British Empire. Biscoe then hoisted the Union Jack." Thus it fell to Biscoe to raise the Flag on the site of Salisbury for the first time. Major Frank Johnson was Commander of the Pioneer Column, Frederick Courteney Selous Intelligence Officer to the Pioneer Column, and Lieutenant Edward. C. Tyndale-Biscoe, Naval Brigade, C Troop, Pioneer Column, in charge of the search light and apparatus used to instil awe and wonder into the Matabele.