One of two manuscript letters written by Sgt Arthur George Harrington, 1st Bn King’s Royal Rifle Corps from a blockhouse on the Orange River on 12 Aug 1901.
With good descriptions of blockhouses and life in them.
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).