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Auction: 25011 - The David Spivack Collection of Queen Victoria Overprinted for use in the Bechuanalands
Lot: 271

(x) Bechuanaland
Military Campaigns and Expeditions
The Langeberg Campaign
1897 (13 July) stampless envelope addressed to King Williams Town and marked, "On Active Service with Bechuanaland Field Force Stamps Unobtainable" and countersigned by "EB Hartley/PMO/Col Forces" with a good strike of "kuruman/bechuanaland" alongside, the reverse with part arrival c.d.s. (18.7); small fragment of the flap is missing. Scarce Cape mail. Photo

Surg. Lt. Col. Edmund Baron Hartley V.C., was a surgeon with the Cape Mounted Rifles. He was wounded in action in early April 1897 while attending a mortally wounded soldier. He was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Basuto War in 1879

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Estimate
£500 to £600