REDVERS BULLER
Redvers Buller has gone away,
In charge of a job at Table Bay.
In what direction that Redvers goes
Is a matter that only Buller knows------
If he’s right, he’ll pull us through,
If he’s wrong, he’s better than you.
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From the ‘Black and White Budget’ magazine of 30 Dec, 1899, one of the most popular English language magazines of the day.
Buller was only one of the many officers that were sent to Stellenbosch HQ for ‘inefficiency’--a transfer there was so feared that it would cause many officers to suicide because of the disgrace inferred--the Imperial Army was greatly improved by this practice!
Buller, after Modder River and Magersfontein, was also known as Reverse Buller!