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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 335

(x) Canada
Canadian Contingents in the Boer War, 1899-1902
The John Wannerton Collection, Part 1
The First Contingent, 2nd. (Special Service) Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment
The Units
1899 (18 Dec.) unstamped envelope from E.D. Bartlett of "D" Company at Belmont Camp to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, marked "On Field Service Stamps nor procurable" and showing Field Post Office 1 c.d.s. (18.12), Cape Town "T" handstamp, London "1d/f.b./b." London tax mark and manuscript "4" due applied in Canada, two different arrival c.d.s. (20.1) on reverse; envelope stains though an unusual destination. Photo

Note: The R.C.R. moved to Belmont on 9 December 1899 to join Lord Methuen's Force on the eve of the abortive offensive to relieve Kimberley

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