Ref: G2473
- £400.00
1900 envelope, from a member of the New Zealand Contingent, endorsed 'Trooper T Gaudin, on active service, card only', bearing a Transvaal 1d which has an Army Post Office cancel. On the reverse is an Auckland DEC 14 1900 arrival cancel. 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.
