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Here's another one!
Look at these two very familiar photos by van Hoepen of the German Corps on Twin Peaks.
Look at the man 2nd from Right in the two images, you'll see it has been taken twice.

Here's another early shot of the Spion Kop trench grave.



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Postcard of Spion Kop summit, c. 1910


..Published by J.P. BARTHO, Ladysmith


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And another, this time depicting the memorial to men of the 1st Bn. South Lancashire Regiment .....


..Published by Harvey Greenacre & Co., Ladysmith, Natal

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More early shots of the Spioenkop graves and monuments. The last one taken in the early 1960s shows how low the surface of the communal grave was, with ammunition and bones being exposed after the rains.

"Graves of Colonel Thorneycroft's men on Spion Kop"
5985 Private Albert PEGG, T.M.I., and others



Source: Horace Nicholls, "Uitlanders and Colonists". n.d. (c.1900)





Image courtesy of Nation Archive of South Africa



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