In the Ranks of the C.I.V: A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences with the C.I.V Battery (Honourable Artillery Company) in South Africa.

by Erskine Childers

Reprinted to coincide with the centenary of the Anglo-Boer War, a facsimile edition of the celebrated Edwardian author's personal diary of service with the CIV artillery battery (Honourable Artillery Company) in the Orange Free State and Transvaal at the end of the conventional war - and the beginning of guerrilla operations.

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1901

About the author

Robert Erskine Childers DSC, universally known as Erskine Childers, was the author of the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War in 1922. He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.

Childers was a Boer War veteran and was called back to active duty at the start of World War One.