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RefNoST/2/2/1620
CollectionGB 286: Sambourne Family Archive
Date12 Apr 1900
DescriptionLetter to Marion Sambourne from her brother Edgar Herapath, thanking her for writing to him so often, gives news of the fighting, they have been at Bloemfontein a month and the rumour is that the advance does not take place until June, thinks remounts are keeping them back as, although they are coming in fast now, there has been a tremendous waste of horses with hundreds being shot from pure exhaustion. Envelope.
Written nr The Glen, about 20 miles north of Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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