Destruction of a building on a Boer farm near the town of Ottoshoop, probably by members of the ...

Place Africa: South Africa
Accession Number P01222.009
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made South Africa
Date made c August 1900
Conflict South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Destruction of a building on a Boer farm near the town of Ottoshoop, probably by members of the 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen Contingent. Two of their members, Lieutenant Alexander George Gilpin and 343 Private (Pte) Andrew Thomas Woodman subsequently died during the clearing of the town.