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Photocopies of typescript copies of 84 letters from Lt Col Charles Mytton Thornycroft to his mother, Edith Frances Thornycroft (nee Cresswell), of Thornycroft Hall, Cheshire, from South Africa 19 Mar 1900 - 10 June 1902; includes voyage to South Africa on SS BAVARIAN; service at Magershoe Camp, Reddersburg, ; Dewetsdorp, Orange Free State; Bloemfontein Hospital, following attack of dysentery, including letter from Catherine Friend, the Sister in charge of sick officers; Winburgh Hospital, Norval's Point; The Glen, Orange River Colony; Harrisburg, Orange River Colony; Elands River; Ficksburg; Brindisi, Near Fouriesberg; Harrismith, Orange River Colony; Albertina, Orange River Colony; Oliver's Hoek, Orange River Colony and Barberton