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Auction: 18010 - British North America, The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 38

(x) New Brunswick
1849 (12 May) entire "From 1046 Pte. John Wilkinson 1st. Battn. Royal Regiment" at St. Andrews to the Secretary of the Military Dept. in London, showing large manuscript "1" and faint St. Andrews handstamp covered by London tombstone Paid datestamp, all in red and, on reverse, St. Andrews datestamp in blue and St. John, N.B. transit datestamp. Photo

Note: The 1st. Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Foot landed at Halifax, Nova Scotia from Barbados on 6 April 1848. The regiment re-embarked and sailed for St. John, New Brunswick where it disembarked on 12 April. The battalion remained there until 24 April as ice on the river Saint John had not yet broken up
Headquarters and four companies moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick leaving two companies at St. John with a detachment sent to St. Andrews

provenance:
Gerald Sattin, May 2004

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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200