A tale of the Boer war

May 1, 2017

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One of the English soldiers who passed through the South African war is Lieutenant Roger L. Armstrong, of Manchester. He was lately in Buffalo, New York, on his way to Chicago, Illinois, to find the mother of a Boer soldier who was killed at Spion Kop. At Chicago he will deliver to her a package entrusted to him by the dying man.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/26/boer-war-spion-kop-south-africa-1900-archive