Ref: G2470
- £400.00
1900 envelope, from a member of the New Zealand Contingent, Trooper T Gaudin, endorsed 'Tom on active service / No. 85 N.Z.M.R.' bearing a Transvaal 2d and ½d which have Army Post Office cancels. On the reverse are Wellington DEC 12 and Auckland DEC 14 1900 transit and arrival cancels. Trooper No 85, Thomas Joseph Holte Gaudin was in the first detachment of 214 New Zealand troops that was sent to South Africa, which left Wellington on the S S Waiwera on 21 October 1899, 11 days after war was declared. A scarce item from a trooper in this first contingent of New Zealand Mounted Rifles.
