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A Telegram Sent to the Woodgate Family Concerning General Woodgate's Wounds Received on Spion Kop

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A Telegram Sent to the Woodgate Family Concerning General Woodgate's Wounds Received on Spion Kop
An original printed form of the Easter Telegraph Company Limited, dated 30.1.1900 addressed to 'Woodgate, Temple, London' and inscribed in manuscript 'Condition General slightly improved but very dangerous' (signed) Carleton

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Major-General Sir Edward Prevost Woodgate, K.C.M.G., C.B., was wounded on Spion Kop on 24.1.1900 and died of his wounds at Mooi River on 23.3.1900.