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Howick 13 years 6 months ago #480

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Howick is a village in Natal, 50 miles north west of Durban on the road to Ladysmith. During the Boer War it was the site of No 15 General Hospital and a Boer concentration camp.

Hospital siding:

The original Boer and British cemetery with the concentration camp behind on the left and field hospital on the right:

No 15 General Hospital with the town of Howick in the background. The hospital opened in July 1900 with over 500 and had double this number by September.