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I realize i might be a few years late, but I saw this photo and thought about these posts. Here is a photo of a Cape Rebel, by the name of Kock. This photo was taken a month before the end of the war, and was taken during his trail. What is interesting though, is the presence of what appears to be plastic/Bakelite/vulcanite buttons.
This is one of Tinus Le Roux's posts:

The photo is to large to attach.

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J.I.W

Here is the pre-colourised photograph (from an album, formerly the property of General French’s groom).



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Hi,

Courtesy of GENERAL JAN SMUTS AND HIS LONG RIDE by TAFFY AND DAVID SHEARING:



I'm sure it's the same person; surely there can't be that many Judge Kock's out there.....

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kok-1164

Before the Battle of Elandslaagte.




1. Asst-veldkornet Dierking
2. Dr Elsberger (of the Ambulance of the German Corps)
3. Kapt. Robertson (adjutant of the German Corps)
4. Kapt. Weisz (of the German Corps)
5. W van de Berg (of the German Corps)
6. Luit. Von Wichmann (of the Transvaal Staatsartillerie)
7. Kol. A H Schiel (of the German Corps)
8. Adj. F Kock (son of Genl. J H M Kock)
9. Genl. J H M Kock (severely wounded at the Battle of Elandslaagte, 21/10/1899; died on 31/10/1899)
10. Adj. P R Kock (son of Genl. Kock)
11. Adj. [Judge] Antonie Francois Kock (nephew of Genl. Kock)
12. Kapt. Harras G Zeppelin (adjutant in the German Corps; killed at Elandslaagte)
13. Luit. Von Albedyl (of the German Corps)
14. Luit. Louis von Zelewski (of the German Corps)
15 Veldkornet Potgieter (killed at Elandslaagte)





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The first mention of Vulcanite buttons in the British newspapers I can find was in December 1879:



A black vulcanite button figured as evidence in the "Battersea Horror" murder case of 1889.

Bakelite was not invented until 1909.