PANZERA

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[ Sir Robert Baden-Powell. ] Copy of 'The Mafeking Mail | Special Siege Slip.' ('Issued Daily, Shells Permitting.') including 'Mafeking Garrison. General Orders' by Major F. W. Panzera, and letter from Baden-Powell and report by C. B. Vyvyan.

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'R. S. S. Baden-Powell, Col., Commanding Frontier Force' [Sir Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941), founder of Boy Scouts] [The Mafeking Mail, Special Siege Slip, 1899; Second Boer War; F. W. Panzera ]
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No. 34. 18 December 1899. 'Printed and published by Townshend & Son, Market Square, Mafeking. Editor and Manager: G. N. H. Whales.'
£65.00

Printed on one side of a 37.5 x 28 cm piece of aged newsprint. A frail historical survival, archivally preserved, but with slight later loss leaving some holes in the leaf, affecting some of the text. Small oval stamp with unreadable text in purple ink on reverse. In four columns, with first item Panzera's 'General Orders', dated 16 December 1899, with sections headed 'Good Service by Snipers', 'Visiting Justice', 'Board of Officers', 'Settlement of Forage Accounts' and 'Packing Cases for Local Defence'.

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