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Sw. volunteers in the Anglo-Boer War & South Africa 1899-03 The British Army 1900 Registered letter to a Sw. soldier in British Field Army, “South Africa”. Place Date *=cancel 2 pence, Letter to Cape Colony Burntislane*, UK 15.8 (Scotland) (within British Empire) 1-2 oz Edinburgh* 15.8 Train (=28.35-56.70g.) Sep. 1, 1899 - Jun. 2, 1918. Southampton, UK 18.8 British mail steamer via Madeira 22.8 Carisbrook Castle 2 pence, Overseas Registration Cape Town 4.9 Over land fee Jul. 1, 1875 - May 31, 1920. Field Post Office, 15.9 Notation “not known” British Army South Africa* uu Cape Town 19.9 British mail steamer via Madeira 2.10 Briton uu Southampton 6.10 Train uu uu London*, UK 12.10 Forwarded Southampton* 21.10 Not in Netley Hospital* Canterbury* 26.10 Notation Forward to “Not at Canterbury” London 28.10 uu uu uu uu Only a handful of Swedes fought under Union Outbound letter route Jack. Private 4428 Carl Wetterberg was at- tached to the 5 Dragoon Guards B Sqn. (a cav- th alry unit) at the British field force in South Af- rica. Probably recovering at a hospital. This troop unit was moved to Natal from India, where it had been commanded and trained by lord Baden-Powel.