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Dinner gong, made from cartridge case, probably picked up after the Battle of Klipriviersberg [Doornkop], but simply engraved "BOER SHELL CASE / JOHANNESBURG / 1900". This was almost certainly fired by Majoor von Dalwig's Maxim-Nordenfelt (No. 4116). See last post for photograph of von Dalwig with this gun.






Two cartridges, one with Maxim-Nordenfelt headstamp, the other unmarked. Both apparently fired by von Dalwig's No. 4116 gun (the first at Mafeking, the second at Klipriviersberg).






Note: the artillerist standing on the waggon carries one of the 50 saw-back bayonets that were delivered to the Transvaal in Feb 1899. Only two photographs of men with this bayonet are known to exist.





75mm (12½-pr) Maxim-Nordenfelt QF (No. 4408) on display at "FIREPOWER", Royal Artillery Museum, Woolwich. Described as "one of two captured from the Transvaal army at the Battle of Elandslaagte, South Africa on 21 October 1899. It was subsequently used by the British against the Boers during the Siege of Ladysmith".


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