Yeomanry Depart
Reports from Cape Town in early March 1900 carried the movement of the Leicestershire Yeomanry into Limerick homes already preoccupied with the South African War. The 7th (Leicestershire) Company of the 4th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, had reached the Cape near the end of February and was ordered inland with its battalion on 4 March. Although this county contingent had not been recruited in Limerick, its departure held local meaning because the Royal Munster Fusiliers drew heavily from Limerick city and county, while their 1st Battalion was already serving in South Africa.