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Manuscript letter, possibly to Henry Harrington from his brother, Sgt Bert Harrington, at Victoria West, Cape Colony, dated 2 Jan 1901. Describes being invalided home with dysentery and then recalled by the 3rd Bn, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and lines of communication work at Beafort West. His unit was almost certainly the 3rd Bn King’s Royal Rifle Corps. From a collection of 180 documents and letters mostly written by RSM Arthur George Harrington, DCM, written to his family while with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps during the Siege and Relief of Ladysmith (1899-1900), Boer War (1899-1902) and whilst attached to the London Rifle Brigade from 1914 up to his death at the 2nd Battle of Ypres on 28 Apr 1915, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918).

Boer War (1899-1902)