 Complete the following phrase:  Burges was educated at Winchester College. He was commissioned on 21 October 1893 as a second lieutet into the Gloucestershire Regiment, and was promoted to lieutet on 8 July 1897. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Burges was with the 2nd battalion of his regiment as they were sent to South Africa in January 1900. He participated in the 