Front matter
Reading edition
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WITH THE FLAG TO PRETORIA.
S. Begg.]
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN VISITING HER WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
The Queen has throughout the war shown the greatest solicitude for the wounded. On March 22, 1900, Her Majesty paid a visit to the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich, and personally handed gifts of flowers to over a hundred wounded men, in each case accompanying the gift with a few words of sympathy, which often had reference to the services of the particular man whom she addressed. The patients included survivors from Colenso, Spion Kop, &c. The Irish soldiers, whose gallantry had been specially noteworthy, were favoured with special notice. The Queen was accompanied by the Princess Christian and the Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.