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Here is the front of the menu from the 1902 dinner, signed by some of the attendees.

That is excellent. Many thanks, Justin.

We still have the menu's from the first 3 menus in our family. I am not sure my Great Grandfather ( Brigadier-General Herbert Kendall Jackson ) attended any after this. Here are copies from the original relief signed. Plus the original invite which is fun. I also have the 1902 one signed and the 1903, where it looks like they didnt bother autographing
I would be interested to know if he did attend any others after this and especially see any photos of the early ones - even if they are poor quality
Many thanks

They are excellent artefacts, Symes.

I have taken the liberty of inserting the images in the post so that they are easier to see.

Best wishes
David

Source: The Northern Daily Mail. 28 May 1949

'Three men who were in besieged Mafeking seen at the Royal Empire Society, Northumberland Avenue, London, yesterday, were veterans of the Siege and Relief of Mafeking attended their 49th reunion luncheon. The only survivors of the actual siege still alive in Britain and possibly the world, they are (left to right) Capt Brook Ascough, Lt Col Lord Charles Bentinck, aged 81, and General Dir Alexander Godley, aged 82, who commanded the western defences of the town'

These men were not the last survivors of the siege in Britain.

Just discovered this very large photograph (13 x 9 inches) hidden in-between pages of Taylor's "Souvenir of the Siege of Mafeking". Formerly the property of Surgeon-Major Louis Edward Anderson, R.A.M.C., it shows the Mafeking Dinner of 1907 (or possibly 1906), held at the Prince's Restaurant, London. Besieged officers sit on Baden-Powell's right, and relieving force officers on his left.


Daily Express, 18th May 1907

Major-General Baden-Powell presided, and among those present were Major Prince Alexander of Teck, D.S.O., Colonel A.W. Pollock, Colonel A. Weston-Jarvis, Colonel A.H.M. Edwards, Colonel A.J. Godley, Major Lord Charles Cavendish Bentinck, Major K. McLaren, D.S.O., Major M.R. Courage, Major Baden-Powell, Major H.P. Sykes, Major J.A. Bell-Smyth, Captain Ashley Williams, D.S.O., Mr B.B. Weil, Mr F.W. White, Mr H. de Montmorency, and Mr S. Garnett.



























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