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Dear Forummers
I'd be interested to see any photos of Major Johannes Lodewyk Pretorius, Transvaal Staatsartillerie.
He fought at Talana, Ladysmith, Colenso.
I attach photos of what I believe to be his Boer Mauser rifle, and his applications for ABO and DTD.
Rob

Hi Rob,
I hope you got your book off to the printers okay ...

This photograph can be found in Jaques Malan's "Die Boere-Offisiere 1899-1902" (p. 176).





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That's an interesting rifle Rob. Is it owned by a museum?

Can you please tell us about your book.

Regards

Ian

Two more photographs of Majoor "Lood" Pretorius ...







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Thanks so much Neville! We missed you at the shoot the other day.
Ian, the rifle is one of mine, for now at least - I'm trying to thin down the Mausers as I seem to be accumulating them,,, I've written a book on the Spioenkop campaign (Upper Tugela 17-27 Jan 1900), it is with the publishers but now they say it won't be out until a year from now...

Well, the Mauser rifle you have shown us here looks like a very special example, so thank you for sharing the photo and the documents. It's a shame about the publication date, but I shall certainly look out for its release; I'm sure that you'll let us all know here too.

Thank you also to Neville for sharing the photographs from the book. I'll have to look out for a copy of that one too.