3-071-273 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches in South Africa by our special artist, 1881. First Boer War. 'Our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior...sends us the Illustrations now engraved of several incidents of the late campaign on the Transvaal border of Natal...1. Officers' Graves at Bronkers' Spruit. 2. Soldiers' Graves at Bronkers' Spruit; View towards Middelburg. 3. Bronkers' Spruit; Position of Rear-guard of 94th Regiment, looking towards Pretoria. 4. Selling a Deceased Soldier's Kit in the Camp at Mount Prospect, Natal. 5. Royal Artillery crossing River by Pontoon Bridge, near Newcastle, Natal...The scene on the river, near Newcastle, where a detachment of the Royal Artillery is represented in the act of crossing by a pontoon bridge supported on empty beer-barrels, shows one of the expedients for conducting the movement of troops in a rough country like the interior of South Africa...the selling of deceased soldiers' kits by auction, which is a customary practice of military life, is [one of the subjects] of our Illustration. In this instance the pair of boots and other articles of personal equipment, put up for sale to the best bidder, had belonged to a man who was killed on Majuba Hill'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.