NAM.2006-12-59

Inventory description: Diaries of Brig Gen John Francis Burn-Murdoch, 1899-1904; kept whilst he was commanding successively the 1st Royal Dragoons and the 1st Cavalry Brigade, and later the Newcastle, Natal sub-district, during the Boer War; also kept after the war when he took command of the troops at Standerton, Transvaal; associated with the Battles of Colenso (1899), Spion Kop (1900) Vaalkranz (1900) and the Relief of Ladysmith (1900), Boer War (1899-1902).