Boer war (1899-1902)
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Captain John Challenor: Boer War Letters, telegrams and photographs
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9351
Dates:
1900-1902
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
J.E. Emmett: Boer War diaries, 1899-1900, 1902
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9947
Scope and Contents
Attributed to Bandsman J.E. Emmett, Queen's Regiment.
Dates:
1899-1902
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Lewis Jarvis: Letters from South Africa
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8925
Scope and Contents
95 letters from Lewis Jarvis to his mother, Mrs. Lewis Jarvis, containing information about the peacetime duties of the regiment, and news from actions around Wepener (1900) and hot pursuit operations along the Cape Colony frontier (1901-2). All letters have their original envelopes, except for /26-7, /29, /49-8, /51-2, /57, /60, /64, /66-7, /71, /77-8, /94, and /96.
Dates:
1897-1905
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sketchbook: South African War, 1899-1900
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10082/2
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...
Dates:
1899-1900
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for researchers using Cambridge University Library.
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