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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 250

(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
Elands River Depot
1900 (Aug.) envelopes (2) from members of the New South Wales Bushmen, the first from Despatch Rider J. Mathews wounded in the attempted relief of the Depot, from hospital in Mafeking to Newcastle with despatch squared-circle datestamp (15.8), taxed at Cape Town with "T" and "1d" handstamps and bearing New South Wales Postage Due 1d. with manuscript cancellation in blue crayon, the second (damaged), complete with four page letter, from Sgt. Scullen-Ward of the 6th. Regiment written on arrival back in Mafeking (13.8) after retreat from the Depot, the contents with comments on the campaign

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