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Sw. volunteers in the Anglo-Boer War & South Africa 1899-03 The British Army 1900 Censored postcard from a Swede, Ladysmith, Natal - Sweden. Place Date *=cancel 1 penny, Foreign Ladysmith*, Natal 2.3 Surcharge T* & 25c* postcard (Natal) Jan. (under siege) (=2d) 1, 1893 - Feb. 1922. Cape Town, Cape 14.3 Br. mail steamer Colony Norham Castle via Madeira 28.3 Private 4428 Carl Wetterberg Southampton 1.4 Train served in the besieged Ladysmith. London Paid* 1.4 Surcharge corrected due to text “stamps Foreign Branch* unobtainable”, He writes “...just now own notation T 12½c forces have arrived and Göteborg* 4.4 Sw. surcharge “20 öre”* the siege had ceased”. uu uu uu uu uu uu uu uu Mail route Major Hubert Gough of the relieving force greets General Sir George White in Ladysmith, as portrayed in a painting by John Henry Frederick Bacon (1868-1914).