Military Cemetry Klerksdorp.... (cont)

On 7th March 1902 Lord Methuen was wounded with his horse who fell on his leg at Tweebosch - towards Ottosdal in W. Transvaal, in the last important battle won by the boers. 870 British soldiers were captured.
General de la Rey placed the wounded Lord Methuen on one of his 'spring wagons' and brought him to Klerksdorp's Military Hospital. On their way to Klerksdorp a group of young Boers took offence to the fact that they were releasing the British General and stopped the wagon, forced it to return to where de la Rey's forces were lying and when they arrived back, he had a time trying to convince these Boers to release Lord Methuen!

Both generals felt honoured to meet one another and became life-long friends after the war. Up to de la Rey's death in1914, they visited one another several times.








Lord Methuen