NAM.2002-11-649-4

Leave pass, Aug-Sep 1900. Three handwritten notes giving permission for the then Pte Pye to be absent from camp in order to visit town, Johannesburg and Pretoria. From a collection of documents and maps associated with BQMS Samuel James Pye, 1st Essex Royal Garrison Artillery Volunteers, attached to the City Imperial Volunteers, in South Africa, 1900 and with the 59th Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery during World War One.

Boer War (1899-1902)