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Can you help decipher this handwriting please? 6 years 7 months ago #58584

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Chalumna Volunteers. Don't know if they were the same as the Chalumna Mounted Volunteers. Chalumna is a place in the Eastern Cape.
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Can you help decipher this handwriting please? 6 years 7 months ago #58585

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I'm with Arthur on this one!

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Can you help decipher this handwriting please? 6 years 7 months ago #58600

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Great! Many thanks, Arthur.
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Can you help decipher this handwriting please? 6 years 7 months ago #58649

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I am back onto the Brabant's Horse attestation papers this morning. This is Walter Griffin



There is a George County in Maryland.

Kletton?
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I'm thinking Maryland David. The fellow completing the forms might have been semi-literate or taken things phonetically.

Maryland is a "fit"
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Can you help decipher this handwriting please? 6 years 7 months ago #58654

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I'm having a hard time with some of the hand writing today. This is the trade for George Honman.



Looks to me like 5 y(ears) a rider
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