Letters from Kimberly by Edward Spiers

Letters from Kimberly by Edward Spiers

Author:Edward Spiers [Spiers, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473831742
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Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Limited
Published: 2013-12-02T00:00:00+00:00


Then the trouble commenced. They started to fire on the town with it about 10 a.m., and kept it up until General French18 relieved us about seven or eight days later. It got unbearable. It set a big shoe shop on fire, and killed about five persons. One was the man who made the 28-pounder [see (183), below]. The shell came through the roof of the Grand Hotel where this man was staying and knocked his head off. It was pitiable to see a population of about 40,000 women and children running every time they heard this big gun fire.

‘Letters from Soldiers at the Front’, Blackburn Times, 24 March 1900, p. 3



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