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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 513

(x) Canada
Canadian Contingents in the Boer War, 1899-1902
The John Wannerton Collection, Part 2
The First Contingent, 2nd. (Special Service) Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment
The Units
1900 (Mar./May) envelopes (5) connected with injured soldiers, comprising envelope from Canada to Private Turner of "E" Company, much redirected and eventually returned back to Canada, two items from Winburg, a mourning envelope from Bloemfontein to Vancouver complete with letter referring to having "no tents" and a fellow soldier being in Winburg Hospital, and envelope from H.E. Niebergall of "A" Company at Green Point to Calgary with letter including "I came out of hospital a week ago to the detail camp here but have not done any duty yet"

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Sold for
£420