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Dead bodies on the veldt, 1900

Dead bodies on the veldt, 1900

'A try for the rock': this photograph, taken by Robert Gell for South African newspapers on 26 January 1900, shows the bodies of British soldiers strewn across the veldt at Spionkop after a heavy defeat by the Boers.

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Archives New Zealand
Reference: WA 250, Box 39
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