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Wednesday, 5 February 2020

British transports Nubia, Tantallon and Auriana leaving South Africa towards England according to the Dutch newspaper De Zeeuw dated 6 April 1901

An item reported that the transports Nubia and Tantallon Castle left South Africa.(1) On board of the first were 17 and the latter 2 invalid officers. The Aurania left the 29th with 37 invalid officers, 85 sick, 493 recovering and finally 56 wounded men.

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.