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Composed in 1912 by Kenneth J. Alford.

A vedette is a mounted sentry placed in advance of the outposts, a term probably familiar to Alford from his time in India but unfamiliar today.

Performed by the Band of the Life Guards.

The illustration is ' The War in the Transvaal: Attack on English Vedettes by the Boers' by Richard Caton Woodville Junior, 1881.