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More imagesPublished by Illustrated London News, London 1901
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Add to basketUnframed Print. Condition: Very Good. Page size 27 x 40 cms. Largest image size 23.5 x 31.5 cms. : 5 pages. The Illustrated London News burst onto the scene in 1842, revolutionizing the way people consumed news. For the first time, readers could see the world unfold before their eyes, not just through words, but through stunning… engravings and illustrations. From royal coronations to scientific breakthroughs, it delivered vivid storytelling that brought global events to life in a way no publication had done before. For over 160 years, this pioneering magazine captured the imagination of its audience, covering wars, discoveries, cultural moments, and historic milestones. With its bold mix of journalism and artistry, it set the standard for illustrated news, leaving an enduring legacy that shaped the future of storytelling. This is a genuine, original piece, carefully removed from the historic volume, not a reprint or reproduction! Category: Illustrated London News; Vintage Prints; PRINTS : Historic News. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
[Lord Roberts of Kandahar, distinguished British soldier, Commander-in-Chief during the Second Boer War.] Autograph Letter Signed, telling the Duke of Buccleugh why he is unable to 'take the chair at a dinner in aid of the Westminster Hospital Funds'
Lord Roberts [Frederick Sleigh Roberts; Field Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar, V.C.] (1832-1914), soldier, British Army commander during Second Boer War [William Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch]
Published by 13 March ; 17 Dover Street W. London 1901
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Add to basketSee his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On his letterhead of coronet and letter R. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. He is sorry to refuse the Duke, 'but I could not really take the chair at a dinner in aid of the Westminster Hospital Funds', as he has 'promised Lord Cadogan to to [sic] act in that capacity in ai…d of [same?] Chelsea Hospital. Under these circumstances, I am sure you will excuse me.'.
[Lord Roberts [Field Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar], British Boer War commander.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Roberts.'), sending condolences to 'Mrs. Tierney', mentioning his time at 'Mills School' with Tierney and cricketer Alfred Torrens.
Lord Roberts [Frederick Sleigh Roberts; Field Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar, V.C.] (1832-1914), British Army commander during Second Boer War [Alfred Torrens (1831-1903), cricketer]
Published by 18 March ; on letterhead of 47 Portland Place W. London 1903
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Add to basket3pp, 12mo. Bifolium, folded once. In good condition. 29 lines of text. He thanks her for her kindness, 'in the midst of your great sorrow', in writing to inform the Robertses of her husband's death. 'We have often talked of you both, and wondered where you were living.' He had thought it was 'somewhere in the valley of the Thame…s, at least I thought you told me so when last I met you both walking in Regent Street - some 10 years ago'. After a brief comment on Tierney's ill health, he recalls how 'He, Alfred Torrens, and I sat next to each other at Mills School. Torrens died a few weeks ago, and now I am the only one left.' He ends by sending his and his wife's condolences, and in a postscript signed 'R' asks to be informed 'should you come to London'. In his 1914 biography, Walter Jerrold writes that between 1842 and 1845 Roberts was 'pupil of a Mr. Mills at Hampton'.
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Seller: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, DenmarkHerman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF
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Add to basketLondon, George Newnes, (1899-1900). 4to. 2 orig. full pictorial cloth. Light wear along edges. Corners a bit bumped. (8),432VIII,433-856 pp. Profusely illustrated after photopgraphs.
Autograph Letter Signed ('W. P. Schreiner') from William Philip Schreiner, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony during the Second Boer War, to 'My dear J. S. C.' [J. S. Cox], suggesting a meeting while in London for the enquiry into the Jameson Raid.
William Philip Schreiner (1857-1919), Prime Minister of the Cape Colony [South Africa] during the Second Boer War; J. S. Cox; Jameson Raid]
Published by On letterhead of Morley's Hotel Trafalgar Square London WC. 24 March 1897
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Add to basket1p., 12mo. In good condition, with slight spotting to extremities, laid down on leaf removed from autograph album. 'I am sorry that we have missed each other on the occasions you have called. My time is much occupied & it is difficult to fix an hour before 6 P.M. on Sunday, when, if you can manage to call once more, I shall be d…elighted to see you & revive our mutual recollections of old days.' According to Schreiner's entry in the Oxford DNB, 'During the closure of the Vaal River drifts in 1895 he helped to commit the Cape to possible war by drafting the ultimatum to the Transvaal republic; but he was appalled by the Jameson raid later that year and soon afterwards broke finally with Rhodes. Although he opposed ending the British South Africa Company's charter, he chaired the Cape select committee which condemned Rhodes's conduct. In 1897 he gave evidence at the raid inquiry in London.'.
[Jan Kemp, Boer War general.] Autograph Letter Signed ('J. Kemp'), in Afrikaans, to the British officer commanding at Olifants Nek, regarding Lord Kitchener's permission to General Botha to obtain medicines.
Jan Christoffel Greyling Kemp (10 June 1872 31 December 1946) was a South African Boer officer, rebel general, and politician [Second Boer War; South Africa; General Kitchener]
Published by In the Field South Africa; 1 August 1901
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Add to basket1p, 4to. Written in pencil on a piece of tissue paper, stamped in one corner with leaf number 675. Aged and wrinkled, with fraying to edges, but text clear and complete. Folded twice. A scarce survival, such thin paper, used for security reasons, not faring well in the passage of time. The signature is Kemp's, the rest of the do…cument being in a secretarial hand. An interesting document which would seem to indicate that the British were employing a more conciliatory approach following Emily Hobhouse's revelations in her June 1901 report on British concentration camps. An English translation of the document reads: 'In the Field | 1 August 1901 | The Hon the Commanding Officer of His Majesty's Forces at Olifants Nek | Dear Sir | In connection with the permission [granted] by Lord Kitchener to Commandant General Botha to obtain medicines, I wish to send a representative of the Red Cross to you to obtain the necessary supplies. | I remain | J. Kemp | Vecht Generaal | Krugersdorp, Rustenburg & Pretoria'.
[ The Boer War, the Rifle Brigade and Brigadier-General John Harington. ] Nineteen items relating to the embarkation of the 2nd Battalion, including 'Nominal Roll', drill instructions, 'Musketry Orders for Pembroke Camp', orders, letters, telegram.
Brigadier-General John Harington (1873-1943), son of Sir Richard Harington, 11th Bart [ 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade; Second Boer War; Natal Field Force ]
Published by South Africa including Pembroke Camp and Klein Oliphant 1902
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Add to basketFor details of Harington's distinguished military career, see his entry in Who Was Who. The present collection, from his papers, is an interesting assemblage of ephemeral items, casting light on British Army practices at the time of the Boer War. Nineteen items. In fair condition, with some signs of age and wear. ONE: Duplicated… orders in mimeograph of handwriting. Titled: 'Depôt Battalion | Orders for Reservist Companies passing through'. At end: 'By order | B St Clair-Ford Captain | Adjutant Depôt Battalion' and 'Green Point | 1st August 1902.' 2pp., folio. Fifteen numbered orders, from '(1) Nominal rolls in duplicate (including officers names) to be rendered to the Orderly Room as soon as possible after rporting arrival' to "(15) There will be roll-call parades at 7 a.m. And 3 p.m. daily Medical Inspection parade at 11.30 a.m. On Mondays and Tuesday', and including '(12) O.C. Reserve Companies will warn their men if there is a prevalence of "Drunkenness" and "Absence" in their companies they will lose their turn on the roster for embarkation being placed at the bottom of the list.' TWO: Printed 'Musketry Orders for Pembroke Camp.' At end: 'By Order, | A. WYNNE, | Colonel, D.A.G. | Chief Staff Officer.' and 'Malta, 5th November, 1897.' Slug: 'Printed at the Head Quarters Office, 215, Strada Form.' 4pp., 16mo. Bifolium. Manuscript note at foot: 'This also applies to N.C.Os. when in charge of parties at private practice'. Fifteen numbered orders. Marginal summaries: 'Musketry Diaries', 'Dress for Musketry Parties', 'Damaged Targets, &c.', 'Firing out of hours', 'Flags to denote when firing may take place', 'Private practice', 'Ceases fire for boats to pass', 'In case of fog', 'Extra look-out man', 'Steamships plying to and from Gozo', 'Route to and from firing points', 'Piquet sentries', 'Route to butts', 'Defective ammunition', 'Ball & blank not to be packed together', 'Responsibility of N.C.O.'s', 'Glass', 'Lead' and 'Time for completion of course'. THREE: Autograph manuscript by Harington, headed: '2nd. Battn. Rifle Brigade. | Nominal Roll of N.C.O's & Men proceeding from Middelburg, Transvaal to Rifle Depot, Gosport. August 5/02.' 2pp., folio. On government paper. A list in four columns: 'Coy', 'Reg No.', 'Rank & Name' and 'Remarks'. After 'Capt Harington | Conducting' the list runs to fifty names, from 'E | 5338 | Sergt Mr. Tailor | Simpson G. | For duty at Rifle Depôt.' to 'H | 3861 | Pte | Young C.' FOUR: Undated duplicated mimeographed manuscript regarding 'Parades', 'By Order | (Sgd) B St Clair Ford Capt | Adjt Depot Battn.' Begins: 'Church of England parade at 11-10 am 2 Lt Wagstaffe 2 Dorsets will march the R. C. party to Church & Lieut Davidson 2 Dorsets the Presbyterians.' He describes his 'parade for marching away', adding 'Previous to parading O C Reservist Coys will see that the tents or huts that have been occupied by their men are handed over Clean.' FIVE: Autograph list by Harington of the 'Reg. No.' and names of 51 members of the battalion, from '2566 George Odell' to '655 Albert Norman'. The last three individuals carry notes: 'to Depot', 'Furlough' and 'Discharge'. SIX: Pencil notes (by Harington?) regarding drill. 4pp. Closely written on two pieces of card. Divided into sections: 'Escort to guns', 'Connecting files', 'Increasing pace', 'Overhead fire', 'Oblique fire', 'Scouts', 'Kinds of fire', 'Woods', 'Convoys', 'Villages', 'Defile', 'Fords', 'House', 'Bridges', 'Shelter trenches'. SEVEN: Duplicated list regarding uniform, in mimeograph of manuscript, with the actual signature of 'Lieut Harington'. Describing articles in three columns: 'Worn or carried by the soldier', 'Black Kit bag' and 'Canvas bag'. Note at foot: 'The above articles must be carried. Any additional articles that a man wishes to carry may be put into the kit bag if there is room.' EIGHT: Autograph letter, on government paper, 'From Captn. J. Harrington, 2nd. Bn. Rifle Brigade | To | The Officer Commanding, 2nd. Bn. Rifle Brigade', at 'Klein Oliphant | Middelburg. | 11th. July 1902.' Regarding his application 'for Leave of Absence to England for four months commencing from the date of my embarkation with Reservists from this Country'. With three notes appended, the first, in autograph, by 'C. T. E. Metcalfe Col | Commdg | 2nd. Batt Rifle Bde.', agreeing to the request; the second by 'Captain | D.A.A.G.' (signature indecipherable); the third by ' Maitland Capn'. NINE: Autograph draft of letter from Harington to the Adjutant General, War Office. From Whitbourne Court, Worcester. 9 September 1902. Reporting his arrival in England 'in charge of Reservists from South Africa I embarked at Cape Town on the 19th. Aug: on the "Bavarian" and landed at Southampton on the 6th. Sept:' He requests four months leave of absence. TEN: Printed table, completed in manuscript: 'Return of Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Tumpeters, or Drummers, and Rank and File, with their Families of [2nd. Bn Rifle Brigade] to embark on the [18th. March / 98] at [Malta] in the Ship [P. & O. Ceylon] for conveyance to [Royal Albert Docks]. Dated from Malta, 9 March 1898. Signed by 'F Howard WC', officer commanding. ELEVEN to THIRTEEN: Three communications from the War Office in London, each completed in manuscript on printed forms, and each signed by 'Evelyn Wood | A.G.' 25 March, 1 April and 19 July 1898. The first concerns the 'soldier servant who accompanied you to this country', the second an examination by the Army Medical Board, the third a leave of absence. The latter two with their War Office envelopes. FOURTEEN: Undated duplicated orders to 'All Officers returning from S. Africa in charge of Reservistd, Time expired etc'. Faded and so difficult to decipher the name of the writer, who is 'Adjt Rifle Depôt'. FIFTEEN: Undated Army Telegram to 'O C Klien Oliphants' from 'Quarter Master', regarding withdrawal of ammunition. SIXTEEN: Slip of paper carrying a postscript signed by 'A.W.': 'All questions as to.
More imagesPublished by South Africa: 1899-1902 1902
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketA highly unusual accomplished series of pen-and-ink and watercolour sketches - landscapes and social and military subjects - covering many aspects of life, both high and low, in Cape Town during the conflict, including depictions of indigenous people, Malays, and Boers. These attractive, well-finished sketches in an unusual and…flamboyant style seem professional and illustrative rather than "fine art" and captioned in a decorative and very well-formed hand. The artist may well have been a working illustrator: his captions are certainly in the manner used by such periodicals as the Black & White and The Graphic, and the style is that employed for lightly "humoresque" reportage. However, we have been unable to trace any published versions, and, of course, he may have been simply an observant, talented, well-placed amateur. The captioning reveals him to be probably British but possibly American - he makes references to the British soldier as "Tommy" and refers to "Australian and Canadian" troops. The album opens with a bird's eye view of Cape Town from Leeuwen Street and is followed by three military subjects. "Poor Tommy passes in his check" shows a British soldier struck in the head by a bullet as fellow infantrymen take cover behind rocks. "Passed in his check" was a slang expression for dying, used mainly in America, where there was considerable sympathy for the Boer cause, and the unsentimental rendering of a Tommy's death may indicate that the artist is indeed American. Similarly, the following picture, "An intercepted despatch" shows a mounted courier being picked off by a Boer marksman. This is followed by "Cronje's barkers at Green Point - captured at Paardeberg", with a British sentry guarding artillery and a Maxim gun taken at that hard-fought battle (18-27 February 1900). The camp at Green Point Common was established for British troops before being used to house Boer prisoners of war. Of the dozen appealing watercolours, five are landscapes, the remainder portraits, except for "On the Terrace, Dix's", which shows a well-to-do trio seated at a table at Dix's Café, the place to be seen in fin de siècle Cape Town, it's "leading café during the South African War. When the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) visited Cape Town, the Mayor's banquet was held at Dix's" (Green). Particularly striking is the very nicely rendered full-length portrait of a young black woman entitled "The girl aint coloured, she was born that way". This is much more of a likeness than a "type" and is echoed to some extent in the preceding image, "Tommy's substitute for Maria", which shows a British soldier conversing with two well-dressed black women. These may well be "sly girls", a term for women who supplemented their income with occasional sex work. At home and among the higher echelons of the Army there was deep concern about the loose morals of troops in South Africa and "one problem was considered to be their preference for black prostitutes" (Kuitenbrouwer, p. 203). The artist's rendering of horses is particularly adept, as illustrated by "Every man his own horse breaker - Buckjumbers [sic] from Argentina" (a buckjumper is a horse that habitually bucks; many British cavalry mounts were imported from Argentina during the war) and an untitled sketch showing a Yeomanry trooper on a prancing mount. Around nine subjects are military, including Boer prisoners being escorted, under guard at Green Point, and soldiers carousing in a mule cart, entitled "When the Canadians and Australians went home". Local scenes include several images of refugees from the fighting, a nicely rendered portrait of a smartly dressed Indian trader, drunks on Bree Street, and "doppers", members of the Reformed Churches in South Africa. "Ricksha" is a spirited sketch showing a young Zulu rickshaw-puller, fancifully dressed and adorned with horns and wings - an outfit intended to attract custom and often seen in tourist album photographs into the 20th century- pulling a fashionably dressed lady. The artist's eye for costume is also notable, even when a little exaggerated for effect, giving the images the hallmark of verisimilitude. The album closes on a humorous note with "Our friends the enemy: the mosquito, the bug, and the nimble flea, the African horrors", showing a trio of anthropomorphized insects. Lawrence Green, Tavern of the Seas, 1947; Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, War of Words: Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902), 2010. Landscape octavo (145 x 245 mm). With 39 original pen-and-ink drawings and 12 watercolours of scenes and people. Contemporary dark brown hard-grain morocco, gilt lettered "Sketch Book" on front cover and initialled "A.H." or "F.H." within border of gilt paired fillets, gilt milled edge roll, gold-veined Double Marble pattern endpapers. Custom brown quarter morocco solander box. Some abrasions to covers, a few pale stains to back cover, inner hinges cracked but firm, expert repairs to edges of first 8 leaves, general toning and finger soiling. Overall in very good condition.
More imagesPublished by Umtata and Cape Town: [issue 1] A. L. Middleton, Umtata; [the remainder] Dennis Edwards & Co., 1898-99 1898
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Add to basketAn unusual near-complete run of this rare regimental periodical, created for and by the Cape Mounted Rifles, preserved with notable ephemera from the Boer War and originating from its "prime mover", Sir Harry Charles St Lo Malet, who served as a corporal in the regiment. Provenance is recorded in an inscription by his son, Sir E…dward William St Lo Malet, noting his father's role in founding the magazine before joining the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. Harry St Lo Malet transferred from the CMR in December 1900, later serving with distinction in both the Boer War and the First World War, earning the DSO and OBE. Additional postal evidence links the volume to the family home in Maidenhead. The run comprises 17 of 19 issues: the complete sequence from May 1898 to August 1899, plus the final number (November 1899). Only four institutions in South Africa appear to hold complete sets. Qakamba - apparently a Xhosa or Nguni-derived term referring to the regiment's distinctive bullet-shaped forage cap - was a comparatively polished regimental magazine, offering news, verse, sports, and regimental "chit-chat". The Cape Mounted Rifles originated as a colonial gendarmerie in 1855 and became part of the regular army in 1878. During the Second Boer War they served in Colonel Brabant's Colonial Division, praised by the Marquess of Anglesey as "the most important body of colonials". Contemporary observers admired their combination of regular-army discipline with deep knowledge of Boer tactics and the terrain. The accompanying ephemera is of particular interest. It includes Francis William Reitz's manifesto of the Orange Free State (an eight-page bilingual open letter attacking British policy, reportedly circulated widely and read in Parliament), annotated as having been "picked up in the Town Hall on the occupation of Ficksburg". Also present is a satirical "Government Gazette Extraordinary, Vryheid District, 17 August 1901", ridiculing Kitchener's 7 August surrender proclamation and threatening, in mock-official style, to "banish" British officers unless they depart by 15 September. Further items include a Boer identity card for Carl Pieter van Rooyen of the Vryheid Commando; a brief manuscript receipt by Lt. Geo. W. Ogilvie acknowledging 49 prisoners on 15 May 1900; and a contemporary newspaper cutting on the Siege of Wepener (April 1900), annotated in pencil. The 16-day defence of Wepener - later commemorated by a clasp to the Queen's South Africa Medal - was a key action for the Cape Mounted Rifles. Chris Ash, Kruger, Kommandos & Kak: Debunking the myths of the Boer War, 2014; The Marquess of Anglesey, A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919, Volume IV 1899 to 1913, 1998; Bud-M'Belle, K***r Scholar's Companion, 1903; Mansell, South African Bibliography, vol. IV, p. 16 for Reitz's pamphlet (1979); Christopher Wilkinson-Latham, The Boer War, 1977. 17 issues bound in 1 vol., quarto (245 x 183 mm); extent of each issue between 16 and 24 pages with continuous pagination. Illustrated throughout from photographs, original artwork and line-drawings, wrappers carrying advertisements for local businesses. Contemporary dark brown half morocco for H. Sotheran & Co. (preserving the original printed wrappers), tawny morocco twin labels, Double Marble gold vein patterned sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. Binding just a little rubbed, wrappers slightly dusty, overall very good.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oblong Small Folio album ca. 24,5x31 cm (9 ½ x 12 ¼ in). 30 card stock leaves (3 blank). With 33 original photographs (mostly mounted, three loosely inserted), including 29 gelatin silver photos and four albumen. The gelatin silver photos include three large photos, from ca. 21x27,5 cm (8 ¼ x 10…¾ in) to ca. 14x20 cm (5 ½ x 8 in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 10,5x15 cm (4 ¼ x 5 ¾ in) to ca. 5,5x8 cm (2 ¼ x 3 in). With four large albumen studio photos of Corfu, each ca. 20,5x27 cm (8 x 10 ½ in). All mounted photos with period ink manuscript captions on the mounts, many also with ink dates on the mounts. Two leaves with the compiler's extensive manuscript notes on verso. With two mounted ink-drawn plans, ca. 18,5x20,5 cm (7 ¼ x 8 in) and 17,5x24 cm (6 ¾ x 9 ½ in); one plan is hand-coloured, the other one is signed "A.D." in the right lower corner. Period dark green full cloth album with blind-stamped decorative borders on both boards and a gilt-lettered title "Photographs" on the front board. The first leaf detached from the stub and loosely inserted, binding rubbed on extremities and slightly weakened on hinges, corners slightly bumped, a few photos mildly faded, two leaves at rear with unfinished mounting of photographs by the compiler, but overall a very good album with interesting strong photos. Historically significant album of rare original photos, illustrating the history of the defence of British-controlled Walfish (Walvis) Bay in modern-day Namibia during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). The settlement of Walvisch Bay was founded at the end of the 18th century as a stopover for Dutch East India Company ships on the way to the Cape of Good Hope. In 1884, it was annexed by the British Cape Colony and, in 1910, became a part of the Union of South Africa. After decades of territorial disputes, in 1994, Walvis Bay and the adjacent Penguin Islands became a part of Namibia, which gained its independence from South Africa in 1990. During the Second Boer War, Walvis Bay received British military and naval protection, as there were rumours of a potential Boers' attack through the sparsely populated territories of German West Africa. HMS "Niobe" (launched in 1897) patrolled the South African coast together with over twenty other British naval ships and was actively involved in the defence of Walvis Bay. The album, compiled by a naval officer who served on HMS "Niobe" at the time, opens with a large general view of the ship, with the manuscript caption recording the years of the compiler's service ("Dec. 29th, 1898 to Sept. 15th, 1900"), a view of the interior of HMS "Niobe's" gunroom, and two group portraits of "gunroom officers" and "ship's company." Thirteen photos of "Fort Niobe," erected around the Walfish Bay settlement by the naval brigade from HMS "Niobe" in February 1900, show its exterior walls strengthened with sandbags, interior fortifications (with visible signs "Machine-gun ammunition" and "Fort Niobe"), Cuddy Cop, Fort Stocker, "H.M.S. Niobe's naval brigade about to embark," several views of the field and Maxim guns, and two views of the "C.G.A. [Cape Garrison Artillery] Camp in Walfish Bay." The photos from Walvis Bay also include a group portrait of "Governor of Walfish Bay and family, 1900," two group portraits (one loosely inserted at rear) of "Miss D. Cleverly, Miss Cleverly, J. Cleverly" (children of John James Cleverly, resident magistrate of Walfish Bay) and a small photo depicting the scene of "Reading telegram "Kimberley relieved" in Main Fort, Walfish Bay, Feb. 1900". The album also contains a portrait of imprisoned Boer general Piet Cronje (1836-1911), "escorted by HMS Niobe to St. Helena, where he remained as a prisoner of war with his wife, family & sec.ty." An extensive manuscript note describes Cronje's participation in the war and adds: "His pet aversions were bluejackets, & he is reported to have said that he would crucify any Englishman he captured with a sailor's hat on, but fortunately he was taken prisoner & had to live with his friends, the bluejackets, on board HMD Doris <…>." The other photos of Saint Helena include two large group portraits of Boer prisoners, a scene with "Boer officers" marching on a street of Jamestown on Saint Helena, and a view of tents or "wigwams, made by Boers, St. Helena." Another photo shows Napoleon's house in Longwood, marking the room where he died with a cross. Two large ink drawings include the "Plan of settlement shewing fortifications and defences forming Fort Niobe, erected by naval brigade from HMS "Niobe" for defence of settlement from Boer raids, Feb. 10th-14th 1900;" and "Plan of the Boer Enclosure and Deadwood Camp, St. Helena, 1900" (with a small insert, showing the barbed wire enclosure). The second plan is signed "AD," who was HMS "Niobe's" midshipman Alan Dixon. He is also present in a large group portrait of young British naval officers mounted after the plan and in a group portrait of HMS "Niobe's" gunroom officers. Dixon is likely the compiler of the album. The album also contains four large studio photos of Corfu, dated 1901, and a photo (loosely inserted at rear) of British naval officers and their families posing on board "H.M.S. Impregnable, July 5th 1925" (one of the officers is the album's compiler). Two extensive manuscript notes on verso of the album leaves give a first-hand account of the "Occupation of Walfish Bay by Naval Brigade from HMS Niobe, Feb 10th-17th, 1900," listing the names of participating officers (including Alan Dixon) and providing information about the number of troops, guns and ammunition, and the tasks given to different units of the landing party. Overall an important original source on the history of British defence of Walvis Bay and the detention of Boer prisoners-of-war on Saint Helena during the Second Boer War.
