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please can anyone help me to identify this photo from my collection, as all I have on the back is KRUGER. I think it must be quite a formal affair as people are dressed for the occasion, maybe a treaty signing etc..

Saxon,

Another intriguing picture from your collection!



As you say, a formal occasion is depicted here. Given the ranks of men, it could be a medal presentation ceremony perhaps?

thank you for replying to this one also, what I couldn't understand about this one is what would Kruger be doing in a ceremony in what would appear to be the end of the war, certainly not the middle I thought he was already on his way to Switzerland, I suppose, even if it is Kruger! incidentally I have just found a three page letter marked confidential, Petersburg Sep 1904 From divisional commandant northern Transvaal, about sending a patrol down to the low country with a prisoner who was in gaol with a man named Swartz, who I think was a coachman of Kruger's, saying he has information on the missing gold. makes some interesting reading. best regards Saxon.