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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 249

(x) Rustenburg
Major-General Baden-Powell and Col. Hoare occupied the town on 14 June 1900. Baden-Powell left the town on 7 August. The next British occupation of the town started with the arrival of Brig.-General Broadwood on 26 September
Postal History
1900 (Aug.) unstamped envelopes from Major-General Baden-Powell and his younger brother Major Baden-Powell, both endorsed by them as "On Service", the first to Lady Smyth in England and redirected from Aylesbury to Wales, the second to Rutland, both conveyed out on the evacuation convoy of 8 August and both showing fine Army P.O. 55 c.d.s. applied en route at Pretoria. An unusual pair

Note: Major Baden-Powell of the Scots Guards was wounded when relieving Mafeking

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