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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 534

(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 (1 Aug.) unstamped envelope from J.W. Jeffrey of "E" Company at Springs to Montreal, marked "Soldiers Letter on Foreign Service in South Africa" and showing F.P.O. 30 c.d.s. and part London transit c.d.s., unusually without Contingent cachet, 1900 (12 Sept.) Hectograph process "Kruger" patriotic cartoon envelope (less small portion at lower left) "From Pte. H.E. Niebergall" of "A" Company, wounded at the battle of Paardeberg and sent to Cape Town for treatment, from Cape Town to Calgary, franked at 1d. and with arrival c.d.s. (17.10) on reverse, and 1900 (Nov.) envelope (a few fox marks) from P.G.A. Webster of "I" Company at Silverton, Transvaal to Toronto, bearing G.B. 1d. lilac with small part Army P.O. c.d.s. in blue and with oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa" datestamp (7.11) in violet alongside, arrival c.d.s. (8.12) on reverse; an unusual item from a member of "I" Company which was formed from men of "C" to "H" Companies who elected to stay in South Africa

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