Mutton for the Troops. Troopers of the Tasmanian Contingent convoying a flock of sheep for Pretoria.
Watercolour en grisaille by Charles Edwin Fripp (1854-1906), special artist for ‘The Graphic’, published in ‘The Graphic’, October 1900. Associated with the Boer War (1899-1902).

This watercolour records an instance of the use by the British Army of the black population in a non-combatant role.