Topic: Militia - LHQ - Qld Queensland Mounted Infantry Outline,
Part 3 March: Soldiers of the Queen The following outline of the
Queensland Mounted Infantry is extracted from a book written by
Joan Starr called Forward: the history of the 2nd / 14th Light
Horse (Queensland Mounted Infantry), published Queensland, 1989.
This section comes from pp. 14 - 17: The situation was inflamed
when the British South Africa Company mobilised its private army
of eight hundred men and held them on standby at Mafeking ready
to ride to Johannesburg in the Republic of South Africa. On New
Year's Day 1896, a shocked would learned that this force was
riding into Transvaal to take armed support to the Uitlanders
who, it was claimed, had asked for assistance. It was a weak
display as the force of eight hundred surrendered to the first
Boer troops which confronted them. The British continued to
threaten the Republic by moving troops from the Cape to the
Transvaal border and ordering reinforcements from India. On 2
October 1899 Pres