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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 254

(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
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Otto's Hoop
1900 (28 Aug.) soldier's envelope (some foxing) from Private Boyd to England, countersigned by the Officer Commanding the Rhodesian Field Hospital and showing Mafeking (28.8, the day Lord Methuen arrived from Elands River siege with relieved troops), F.P.O.B.O. (1.9) and London Paid c.d.s., and 1900 (11 Sept.) envelope (225x105mm.) from Lt. Col. Grey (leader of the fateful Jameson Raid in 1896) of the 2nd. Rhodesian Field Force to London, showing Mafeking and London Paid (5.10) datestamps

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