With the Boers round Kimberley : being a personal narrative of scenes and occurences in the enemy's laagers during the Siege of Kimberley, 1899-1900. W. G. Tempelhof. Diamond Field Advertiser, Kimberley, 1905.
17 printed pages (slight browning; some contemporary pencil marks in the margins, and a few short closed tears internally near the lower staple). 140 x 210 mm. Staple bound in the original faded orange printed wrappers. Reprinted from the "Diamond Fields Advertiser".
Dr. Tempelhof was Prussian, and one of a dozen doctors in the Transvaal who were not attached to an official organisation either military or Red Cross but who served with particular Boer Commandos or independently. Tempelhof was in charge of the military hospital for three and a half months and had a son in the Transvaal State Army, suffering from enteric fever. This is a detailed picture of the suffering and loss of life in the Second Boer War - a very scarce contemporary eye-witness testimony.
1059449823. WorldCat locates a single copy worldwide (Unisa: Muckleneuk Campus, Pretoria). Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography, 467.
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