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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 259

(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
Recovery of Looted Mail Handstamps
1901 (13 Jan.) G.B. ½d. brown card (one corner creased) from Buffels Poort to Dorchester and redirected to Glasgow, marked "Field Service - No stamps" with the stamp impression cancelled by Army P.O. 54 c.d.s. for 15 January, showing "included in mail bag lost on/cape railway and recovered/25th july 1901" cachet alongside Severn Stoke arrival c.d.s. (19.8); the contents include "We are out in the mountains watching the passes while the supplies are passed through to Rustenburg whence we lie 14 miles E". Photo

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