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Murray: Corporal, invalided to Australia arrived 21.10.1900, commissioned in Imperial Service.
Mitchell: writer.
Source:# 138 wrote 'Tommy Cornstalk'.
Dunn&B : Scone Tp. Aust.H., Lieutenant RFA. 8.1900, son of Sir. Joseph ABBOTT.
Source:# 512 Maitland, NSW RFA.
URL4: extracts from 'Tommy Cornstalk: Being an Account of Some of the Less Notable Features of the South African War".
URL5: Mr. JHM ABBOTT died in Sydney NSW c8.1953 aged about 80, a brilliant journalist and author and an excellent soldier with Aust. Light Horse in Boer War.
URL6: 1908 article under by line of 'JHM ABBOTT author of Tommy Cornstalk'.
URL7: his item on the 1AH Commemorative Dinner on 30th Anniversary of the Boer War.
URL8: Mr. JH ABBOTT, who went as a Corporal with the First Australian Horse to South-Africa, has published an interesting book on the war, which he has characteristically named "Tommy Corn stalk." Mr. ABBOTT considers that one of the great lessons to be learned from the South African war by Australians may be summed up in one word, "Ammunition." If we have cartridges, we have men who can use them effectively, but if we have none we are a gift to the first hostile Power who may seek to take us." Mr. ABBOTT urges that the Commonwealth Government build a small-arm ammunition factory somewhere near Canoblas, and make some cartridges, and keep on making them until we have so many millions that we may afford to bury them in handy places about the country after the manner of DE WET and other far-seeing Boer generals.
URL10: Mr. JHM ABBOTT, late corporal in the First Australian Horse, in his book "Tommy Cornstalk; being Some Accounts of the Less Notable Features of the South African War," just [c6.1902] published; draws the following word picture of General French - "Somehow FRENCH doesn't strike you with any idea of his being the smart man he is - except when you notice the shrewd, twinkling little eyes that seem to take in every thing about him. ...
Gippsland Tms: "Tommy Cornstalk," the Australian book
on the South African War, to the publication of which we drew. attention a short
time ago is having more than looked-for success. It is readable not only for the informnation it gives, but for a sort of ready wit that runs through it. The author, JHM ABBOTT, is a son of a late Speaker in the NSW Assembly - and was a writer on the Sydney "Evening News." SydML: The Longman's firm has accepted for publication Lieutenant JHM ABBOTT's book on his experienceB in the Boer war with the Bushmen. Lieutenant Abbott's book gives the colonial trooper's view of the war under the title of 'Johnny Cornstalk' as distinguished from 'Tommy Atkins.' Good judges who saw the MS before it left Sydney thought very highly of it.
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