Extracts from the Illustrated London News - Boer War - 1900

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Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley


Caption Reads: Invalids at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley

FIRST Row - (reading from the left) - No. 4 Corporal Ramesy, Black Watch, wounded, Magersfontein, eight times, who so nobly avenged the death of a drummer-boy brutally murdered by a Boer with a pocket-knife. No 5 Private Pratt of the Black Watch. No 6 Private Glisson, Royal Munster Fusiliers. SECOND Row - No 3 Private Milford, Coldstream Guards, wounded, Modder River. No 4 Corporal Gordon, Gordon Highlanders, wounded, Magersfontein. 5, Corporal Campbell, Loyal North Lancashires, wounded, Belmont. No 9, Sergeant Mathers, Imperial Light Infantry, wounded at Spion Kop three times; a well-known man of Johannesburg, who has taken part in all the African warfare for the last 10 years. No. 10 Private Weatherborn, 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, wounded, Frazier's Drift. No. 11 Corporal Fearey, Royal Field Artillery, wounded in the leg, Spion Kop. THIRD Row - No 2 - Private Fife, Black Watch, wounded, Magersfontein.

Photograph by S Peppler, Southampton

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