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Monday, 28 May 2012

British troop transport Auriana arrived with fresh troops at Cape Town according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 26 August 1901

An item reported that the British transport Aurania arrived at Cape Town with on board 54 officers and 1,034 men belonging to different regiments. From there she steamed towards Durban.

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.