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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 62

(x) Boer Medical Services
Dutch Red Cross
1899 (27 Dec.) printed Dutch Red Cross "ambulance" envelope from a voluntary member "via Delagoa Bay" to Dr. J.A. Kortweg (senior officer) in Pretoria, marked "Velddient" and showing a good strike of the "elandslaagte/z.a.r." oval-framed datestamp, arrival c.d.s. (29.12) on reverse; rare with six such ambulance covers recorded. Photo

Note: British troops attacked Boers under General Kock, occupying flat ground at Elandslaagte on 21 October. The Boers retreated back to Glencoe with heavy losses though reoccupied the area on 24 October

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£520