With Sir Redvers Buller's Force : Signallers at Work near Surprise Hill. 1900.

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With Sir Redvers Buller's Force : Signallers at Work near Surprise Hill.

  • With Sir Redvers Buller's Force : Signallers at Work near Surprise Hill. 1900.

  • Drawing.
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For Sale is a Half Page removed from "The Graphic, May 19th, 1900," showing a Drawing by H. Johnson from a Photograph by a British Officer, called "With Sir Redvers Buller's Force :  Signallers at Work near Surprise Hill."
Size of Drawing- 22.5cm. x 15cm.

The men here shown belong to a picket of the 2nd Middlesex.  The photograph was taken near Surprise Hill, Ladysmith.  The cook is getting tea ready for the picket.  The pot which the soldiers call a "dixie" is resting on some stones between which smoulders the fire.  An empty "bully" box acts as a table.  The meal consists of bread, meat served in the lid of the "dixie," some onions, and sugar (rolled up in paper) for the tea".

Condition is Very Good.