• THE DIARIES OF SAPPER ROBERT POOLE

THE DIARIES OF SAPPER ROBERT POOLE

: Yeowart (W.) ed.

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2343 Royal Engineers Telegraphist with the South African Field Force, Methuen's Division Field Force South Africa and Lord Roberts' Headquarters and Latterly Corporal Robert Poole, 2343 1st Telegraph Division, Royal Engineers Belfast (Transvaal), 20 October 1899 - 1 November 1900

184pp., illus., paperback, Durban, 2017

 

Englishman Robert Poole arrived in South Africa in October 1899 to fight with the British troops against the Boers, witnessed various battles including those at Magersfontein, Colenso, Spionkop, Paardeberg and Driefontein, as well as the occupation of Kimberley, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Pretoria.