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Could one of our Afrikaans speakers please look at the document written in Afrikaans here and tell me what it is concerning. It's quite large, so I'm not asking for a translation, just an idea of what it refers to so that I might understand why it is included in this photograph album.

wellcomecollection.org/works/cb7f4x3t

Thank you

Ian

The 3 notes are permission slips to leave the front, each signed by an officer, I can't read the slips 1 and 3, but the reason given on the 2nd one is so the man can see a doctor. The Afrikaans word for permission or leave-of-absence is 'verlof', and it is the same word which, transformed into American, becomes 'furlough'.
The printed document is the records of the opening of the oVS parliament, 1899.

Thank you very much Rob.

A note in the album states that the slips were recovered from a Boer position at Colesberg after it had been shelled, so I can understand why Major Tuckey might have these, but there is a signature by the note A. j. Yardley, who was another Wiltshire officer, so I don't know why that is there. I also can't think why Major Tuckey would have kept the parliament document. Maybe he found them all and just kept them as keepsakes.

I think that the Spion Kop images were the usual ones seen and nothing new.

Thanks again.

Ian