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Wednesday, 11 July 2012

British transport Templemore arrived at Las Palmas according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated Tuesday 30 July 1901

An item reported that last Saturday the British transport Templemore coming from Cape Town arrived at Las Palmas with on board 560 wounded and sick.

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.