1900 Boer War

Ref: G2847
  • £175.00

1900 'Veld Dienst' cover to Haenertsburg, Transvaal, sent from H. S. van Blerk 'onder H.W. Alberts, Veld Cornet'. He was fighting the British at the siege of Kimberley when this was written. A HAENERTSBURG 10 FEB 00 arrival c.d.s. is on the back. He was 43 years old and captured at Paardeberg on the Modder River in the Orange Free State near Kimberley, on 27 February 1900 when General Cronje surrendered with 4105 soldiers. A rare cover from a Boer soldier in the Kimberley campaign.