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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 1702

(x) Zululand
The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
Volunteer Forces
1879 (25 May) soldier's envelope (a little soiled) "From William Hay. Frontier Light Horse Zululand" to Scotland and redirected to Sussex, countersigned by the Commanding Officer, Lt.-Col. Redvers Buller, V.C., showing Natal 19 (Ladysmith) "shield" datestamp (26.5) and "1d" redirection charge handstamp, the reverse marked "Colwood's Column, Wolf's Hill Zululand 25 May" by the recipient and with a variety of transit datestamps. B.P.A. Certificate (1978). Photo

Note: Col. Redvers Buller, later to win the Victoria Cross and be Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, went on a reconnaissance on 12th. May 1879 with sixty of the Frontier Light Horse. The party returned on 16th. May to Col. Wood's Flying Column camp on Wolf's Hill where all was ready for the advance against the Zulus at Ulundi, King Cetawayo's stronghold
As post office was available at Wolf's Hill the letter has gone an a brigade bag to Ladysmith and then via Pietermaritzburg to Durban. Being on active service Private Hay was entitled to the soldier's privilege rate of 1d., which was paid without surcharge on delivery

provenance:
Wilson Wong, September 1996
Gerald Sattin. June 2008

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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200