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The article is "Extracts from a Subaltern's South African Diary". It is by Lt (at the time of writing) FE Walter or 2 Bn, Norfolk Regt.

You can access, free of charge, readable but thoroughly watermarked copies of the first two installments through the OgilbyTrust. Its been a year or two since I last checked but if I recall rightly you search for "Britannia", which is the Norfolk's regimental journal. You need March 1930 vol 7 pages 62-64; Autumn 1930 vol 8, pages 53-55.

Parts 3 and 4 (March 1931 vol 9 pages 68-69, Autumn 1931 vol 10 pages 61-62) are attached. These were made from my copies of the journal.

Rob.

Ian is correct.
If you read about the attack on Twin Peaks in the Times History (Vol 3 Ch X p 276) it states that
The 60th Rifles … swung round for the attack, the right half battalion, under Colonel Buchanan-Riddell, making for the eastern, and the left, under Major Bewicke-Copley, for the western of the Twin Peaks.
The map in Maurice shows Companies A - D (the R half battalion) attacked the eastern peak and Companies E- H (the L half battalion) attacked the western peak.
Rob

Rob C - thank you for sharing.

Rob D - thank you for corroborating.

Rob may have spotted a tweak to Ian's explanation. He has A to D Coys in the right half. This would fit with the anonymous A Coy diarist being in the right half mentioned in the original post. For free online access to the anonymous diary, search "diary of the Boer War" at The Wolfsonian Collection of Florida International University. It is the first hit. I think the catalog number is WOLF035042/00001. There is other decent stuff there too.

Once again thank you.

Rob.