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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 433

(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
1901 (26 Jan.) "soldiers of the queen" patriotic envelope from A Bourgeois at Pretoria to Shediac, bearing V.R.I. 1d. tied by Army P.O. c.d.s., Halifax (16.3) and Shediac (18.3) c.d.s. on reverse; the latest recorded date of use of this patriotic envelope. Photo

Note: A Bourgeois was signed on in the Royal Canadian Regiment as M. Burgess, was invalided out by March 1900 and must have returned to South Africa as he was awarded the Transvaal clasp

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