Italian transport shipping British soldiers to South Africa according to the Dutch newspaper Vlissingse Courant dated 16 December 1901

An item reported that England so desperately needed reinforcements that in Marseille several recruiters of the British army arrived. By paying an advance on the handset they managed to recruit 300 men to be shipped with an Italian transport to Teneriffe and from there with a British transport to South-Africa.

Note

1. The Second Boer War found place between 11 October 1899 and 31 May 1902 and ended in a defeat of the Boers and regaining British sovereignty of the Orange Free State and South African Republic (Transvaal). In 1920 became the Union of South Africa part of the Commonwealth.