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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 352

(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
1900 (12 Apr.) G.B. 1d. letter card from G.R. Eakins of "C" Company at Bloemfontein to Toronto, cancelled by light F.P.O. c.d.s. and with fine oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa" datestamp (18.4) in red; contents include "they say that the ship with our last mail went down", a reference to the sinking of the S.S. Mexican. Photo

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Estimate
£100 to £120