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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 102

(x) Colonial Contingents
New Zealand
1900 (3 Sept.) envelope from Trooper Roberts, most unusually addressed to a fellow soldier, and presumably relative, Corporal Roberts of the Rhodesian Field Force Artillery at Mafeking, bearing 1d. lilac cancelled at A.P.O. 53; 1900 (8 Nov.) envelope from Lt. Lewin to Canterbury bearing Transvaal V.R.I. 1d. cancelled by F.P.O. 19 c.d.s., and 1901 (Mar.) C.G.H. ½d. card bearing O.F.S. V.R.I. 1d. cancelled with A.P.O. 55 c.d.s. from Trooper Eggleston to a member of the Telegraph Dept. at Lyttelton with contents including "2nd. and 3rd. Contingents much reduced, cannot muster 200"

provenance:
John Woolfe, October 2006

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