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29043 Sapper Robert William Hunt, Royal Engineers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Sapper Hunt and the other ordinary soldiers of the Camp were especially grateful to him because, as Adjutant General, he had done so much to improve their conditions of life. |
 | | Sapper Hunt's work at this point consisted mainly of the maintenance and exploitation of the railways and telegraphs, the construction of defences, provisioning of cantonments and hospitals, road and bridge building, and blockhouse construction. |
 | | Sapper Hunt served in South Africa during all of the year 1902, and in January of 1903 he was assigned to the 5th Field Company, R.E. On the 29th of April he was transferred to the 1st Class Army Reserve, on the expiration of his period of active Army service. |
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