MILITARY HOSPITALS, BOER WAR
An album of albumen prints relating to the Imperial Yeomanary Hospital at Deelfontein, approximately 45 prints, some fading, images 150 x 205mm., contemporary half morocco, upper cover near detached, oblong 8vo, [c.1900]
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Footnotes
- A photographic record of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital established, in 1900, at Deelfontein for the recuperation of British soldiers active in the Boer War. The commandant was Colonel A. T. Sloggett, who features in many of the images with his staff (once holding the chin of a nurse, twice with a dog on his lap, once talking to a "medieaval knight" on a horse). Also images of the putting up of a large canvas tent, meerkats beside the tent, a tethered aardvak, and the hospital cemetary.
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