A scene on board the Donottar Castle, the ship transporting General Sir Redvers Buller to the Cape during the Transvaal (Boer) War. Buller is pictured seated far left, speaking to his ADC, Colonel Trotter and behind them is Mr Pole Carew and Mr Winston Spencer Churchill. Others include Sir Bryan Leighton, General Willoughby, Earl De la Warr and Mrs Spence, wife of the English consul at Madeira.