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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 136

Documents
South Africa
1900-01 Boer War
1900-02 a selection of letters and documents relating to Colour Sergeant William Johnson of the Royal Lancasters, the majority are letter to his wife, in Sandgate, Kent with letters from Cape Town, S.S. Manila in Simons Bay, "... We are still afloat and are expecting to leave shortly for St. Helena ... and had a good supper of tripe and onions, 1/5 each", Bloemfontein on patriotic paper, " ... Potatoes nearly every day except down here ... they give mixed vegetables which consist of nearly every kind that is grown.", Virginia, O.R.C., "I am now writing these few lines in the trenches ... ", No. 1 General Hospital, Cape Town where he was taken in with Enteric Fever, and Wynberg; a detailed letter to Sgt. Johnson from a captain in his regiment at Brandfort. The lot also includes some envelopes, his discharge papers and a souvenir book, Royal Naval & Military Bazaar, 1900. Some letters with paper splits; an interesting group

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Sold for
£150

Sale 16043 Notices
This lot includes two 11½ x 9½ inch. photographs of two troops leaving Southampton on 2nd March 1900. Colour Sergeant William Johnson features in both.