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20-05-20, 11:36 PM
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Todays Finds
The things that you find while doing a CV19 lockdown cleanup..... Have to keep busy doing something.....
Two of about 40 posters that I found...… Mike
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Calgary Military Historical Society OMRS 1591 Boer War Badges Want's anything named Clare or Cherer 
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21-05-20, 09:47 AM
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Caton-Woodville's "A Gentleman in Khaki" - much reproduced in print, porcelain, bronze - and I think that this little "scrap", about 5" tall is of painted celluloid
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21-05-20, 01:34 PM
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Yes it has been used in many many souvenir's…… He was the "Old Bill" of the Boer War..... Mike
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Calgary Military Historical Society OMRS 1591 Boer War Badges Want's anything named Clare or Cherer
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21-05-20, 02:34 PM
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Often with a wounded comrade laying in front of him, offering a round of ammunition?
Or am I thinking of different but similar illustration?
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23-05-20, 01:06 AM
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Dawn of Majuba
Good day Leigh,
Would you be thinking of Woodville's painting of the Boer surrender at Paardeburg on Feb 27, 1900, with soldiers of the Royal Canadian Regiment in the foreground? Ian
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The day the government succeeds in taking away our dress uniforms, badges and colours, and all the so called "non-functional" items; they will find themselves with an army that cannot defend them. Robert Heinlein, "Starship Troopers"
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