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Bronkhorstspruit (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Graves [of] British officers and men, Bronkhorst Spruit [i.e. Bronkhorstspruit ], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305F/16
Scope and Contents

99 x 71 mm. Showing a group of Europeans standing in front of the stone wall enclosing the graves of men of the 94th Regiment under Colonel P. Anstruther who died during the first South African War. The town of Bronkhorstspruit, situated about fifty miles from Pretoria, was named Erasmus until 1929.

Dates: 1899
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