Excerpt from Le Livre D'or (the Golden Book) Of the Canadian Contingents in South Africa: With an Appendix on Canadian Loyalty; Containing Letters, Documents, Photographs; Portraits of Queen Victoria; King Edward VII; And the Queen of England That their names, and a faithful record of their brave and chivalrous deeds may be transmitted to posterity, constitutes our aim in publishing this volume. The question may be asked why is this book partly in French and partly in English? Because, having taken up arms together, irrespective of race or creed, hand in hand, and shoulder to shoulder; having shed their blood on the same battle fields; having sunk to their last rest beneath the same sod, and wrapped in the folds Of the same flag, it is meet that they should live on in the same book, and together repose in all the libraries of the land those sanctuaries Of immortality wherein every nation enshrines its national glories. We say that this work is written by our brave. And truly is it so for, apart from a few incidental articles, for which we have to thank their authors, the book consists entirely Of letters from members of the contingents; some of them heretofore unpublished, but which, through the kindness of the respective families, we secured; others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.