Brigadier-General Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, V.C., K.C.B.
cover 1879 (Apr.) blue XU5 (215x100mm.) endorsed "Service", signed at lower left "Evelyn Wood/Colonel", addressed to Sir Bartle Frere at Pretoria, with boxed "TELAAT" and "UTRECHT/Z.A.R./AP 14/79/ZUID AFRIKA" c.d.s. together with an indistinct Natal c.d.s. on the reverse. Photo.
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cover 1879 (Apr.) blue XU5 (215x100mm.) endorsed "Service", signed at lower left "Evelyn Wood/Colonel", addressed to Sir Bartle Frere at Pretoria, with boxed "TELAAT" and "UTRECHT/Z.A.R./AP 14/79/ZUID AFRIKA" c.d.s. together with an indistinct Natal c.d.s. on the reverse. Photo.
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Wood, later a Field Marshal, commanded the 4th Column, and subsequently the Flying Column, of the Field Force. His was a very active war and he saw action at Zunguin Nek, the attack on Hlobane, the battle of Kambula and the battle of Ulundi. He had won the V.C. in the Indian Mutiny. He was an officer of the 90th Light Infantry.
Sir Bartle Frere, G.C.B., was the Governor of the Cape and had gone to the Transvaal where Sir Theophilus Shepstone, K.C.M.G., the first British Administrator of the Transvaal, had come to the end of his active career.
Wood, later a Field Marshal, commanded the 4th Column, and subsequently the Flying Column, of the Field Force. His was a very active war and he saw action at Zunguin Nek, the attack on Hlobane, the battle of Kambula and the battle of Ulundi. He had won the V.C. in the Indian Mutiny. He was an officer of the 90th Light Infantry.
Sir Bartle Frere, G.C.B., was the Governor of the Cape and had gone to the Transvaal where Sir Theophilus Shepstone, K.C.M.G., the first British Administrator of the Transvaal, had come to the end of his active career.