NAM.1975-04-68-2

Major-General R S Baden-Powell, 1900 (c). Chromolithograph with black and white prints, 1900 (c). Shows portrait of Baden-Powell, surrounded by two black and white portraits of his parents and seven vignettes depicting the siege of Mafeking. ‘Music Hath Charms’, ‘SInging and playing in the trenches - the Boers raising themselves to enjoy the music were then shot down’; a soldier in a slouch hat snipes through an entrenchment loophole at Boers besieging Mafeking, while his comrades sing along to a concertina. ‘Tricking the Boers’, ‘Throwing the hand grenades with a fishing rod, and the mechanical dummy used to draw the Boer fire’; a scene of life in the trenches at Mafeking, with a soldier cooking while others indulge in some unconventional methods of warfare. ‘Firing the Wolf’; improvised gun, named ‘Wolf’, made by the garrison of Mafeking. ‘Meeting of Baden-Powell and Mahon’; Colonel B T Mahon, commander of the flying column that relieved Mafeking, shakes hands with Baden-Powell. Portraits of ‘Baden-Powell’s Mother’ and ‘Baden-Powell’s Father’, flank a picture of the town of Mafeking, with a tented encampment in the foreground.

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