photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.1964-06-73-1

Description

Photograph from an album of 69 photographs compiled by Capt R G B Lovett, 1885-1896. Associated with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and India. Showing Sherborne, views, family groups, Cambridge, the interior of a student's room, Curragh in Ireland, groups, colours, barracks, a voyage to India 1801 including Malta, the Suez and Bombay. Showing Punjab, Cherat and camp. Inscribed on flyleaf, 'This book was left by Capt Richard Gordon Lovett, who was killed at the head of his Coy of Royal Welch Fusiliers at Roordam in the Relief of Mafeking in South Africa in 1900...'. Associated with the Relief of Mafeking, Boer War (1899-1902), 1900.

Events

Mafeking, Relief of, 1900 (Boer War 1899-1902)