Scope and Contents Small green sketchbook inscribed ‘H.A.T. Fairbank 1899’ containing sketches featuring voyage to South Africa aboard RMS Servia and several camps and field hospitals. Includes views of the island of Madeira, Saint Vincent Harbour, De Aar camp, Paardeberg field hospital, the surrender of Boer General Pieter Cronje, Major Robert J.L. Fayle's shelter at Bloemfontein, the settlement of Winburg, Boer gun pit at [Slobbart's Neck] and figures or faces of soldiers and horses, some inscribed with...

Scope and Contents HATF volunteered to serve as a surgeon in the South African War on 13 October 1899 and left Liverpool for Cape Town on 2 November. It is understood that he returned to England in October 1900.Contains single bound volume of journal entries and typescript letters sent from HATF to his mother, Mary Louisa Fairbank, during the period of his service in the South African War. The letters begin with a description of HATF's voyage to South Africa on board RMS Servia via Queenstown, Ireland...