General Wauchope

This book chronicles the life of Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope who as a British Army officer, was killed while commanding a brigade at the Battle of Magersfontein in the South African War. The biographer of this book has this to say about his subject: «He died as he had lived, ever in the midst of strife, an earnest, brave, and self-denying man, thinking more of others than himself; graced with the dignity that comes from inborn gentleness of spirit, and ever in his conduct exemplifying the faith he professed. No wonder that when such a man fell, there was a wail of lamentation, not merely around his own home in Edinburgh where he was best known and loved, but throughout the whole British Empire.»