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Dead bodies on the veldt, 1900
'A try for the rock', photographed by Robert Gell for South African newspapers, 26 January 1900, Bodies are strewn across the veldt at Spionkop, where the British had suffered a heavy defeat.
Archives New Zealand
Major H. M. W. Richardson's papers
Reference: WA 250, Box 39
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