Contents

Introductory

• Author's Preface [Chartwell Manor, August, 1930]

Chapters

• I. Childhood
• II. Harrow
• III. Examinations
• IV. Sandhurst
• V. The Fourth Hussars
• VI. Cuba
• VII. Hounslow
• VIII. India
• IX. Education at Bangalore
• X. The Malakand Field Force
• XI. The Mamund Valley
• XII. The Tirah Expedition
• XIII. A Difficulty with Kitchener
• XIV. The Eve of Omdurman
• XV. The Sensations of a Cavalry Charge
• XVI. I Leave the Army
• XVII. Oldham
• XVIII. With Buller to the Cape
• XIX. The Armoured Train
• XX. In Durance Vile
• XXI. I Escape from the Boers
• XXII. I Escape from the Boers (cont.)
• XXIII Back to the Army
• XXIV. Spion Kop
• XXV. The Relief of Ladysmith
• XXVI. In the Orange Free State
• XXVII. Johannesburg and Pretoria
• XXVIII. The Khaki Election
• XXIX. The House of Commons

List of Maps and Illustrations

• Miss Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Churchill)
• The Author aged Five
• Lord Randolph Churchill, aged thirty-six, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons
• A Gentleman-cadet
• In the Fourth Hussars
• Map of Cuba
• Sir Bindon Blood
• Some Polo Ponies
• Bangalore
• Map illustrating the operations of the Malakand Field Force
• Map of the Mamund Valley
• Lady Randolph Churchill (Drawn by Sargent
• Colonel Ian Hamilton
• The Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman
• Omdurman: The First of September
• The Armoured Train: The Start: The End
• The Armoured Train
• Pretoria: November 18
• Plan of the State Model Schools
• 'Dead or Alive'
• Welcome at Durban
• The South African Light Horse
• Around Spion Kop
• The Relief of Ladysmith
• In the Orange Free State
• Bloemfontein to Pretoria
• General Map illustrating Mr. Churchill's Journey
• Member for Oldham