Inventory description: Papers relating to the service of brothers, Captain Samuel Messiter Rowlandson and 2nd Lieutenant Christopher Orlebar Rowlandson, Durham Light Infantry, in the Transvaal during the South African War, comprising manuscript letters from both brothers to family members (May 1900 - March 1903), S M Rowlandson's diaries for 1900-01, written whilst he was serving with 4th Battalion Durham Light Infantry and C O Rowlandson's diary for 1901, kept whilst serving with Mounted Infantry drawn from 3rd Battalion Durham Light Infantry; associated with the Boer War (1899-1902).