Lot 137
A BOER WAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM inc 4th DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY.
A well laid out original photograph album of 48 images, bringing the Boer War alive. Starting with the Orange River Railway Station, another with Boer POW's arriving. A Siege Train leaving, Orange River Military Camp and the River Bridge and Blockhouse, with Faithful Durhams below. Doctors and Nurses of the Military Field Hospital.
Wounded Boers captured at the Battle of Magersfontein, including a 14 year old Boer Prisoner with one leg who was captured there.
New Zealand Field Battery, with a 15 Pounder Elswick Gun. Naval guns on route to the front.
Howitzer guns for the Relief of Kimberly, etc
Modder River Bridge after damage by the Boers, with armed Boers below.
Boer Prisoners captured at the Battle of Belmont, also at Sunnyside Cape Colony.
Railway transport damaged by Boer fire, Military Sports celebrating the Relief of Mafeking.
Colonel Lambert 4th Durhams Military Commandant Orange River, together with his Staff. Also the 4th durhams Military Band.
Australian Medical Corps, Vetenary Corps.
3rd Royal Munster Fusiliers leaving for England Feb'y 1902, etc
Very clear notations of area and details in most cases, below the images.
