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Wounded soldiers embarking for England on the Orient.

No 24 just visible.

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The arrival of the Sardinian, with the Royal Canadian Regiment, at Cape Town.

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Officers of the 3rd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry, returning home on board the Kinfauns Castle, August 1902.

Major Matthew Smith DAWSON, 10th (Sherwood Rangers) Company I.Y., seated in the centre.




The Kinfauns Castle left for England Aug 6 with the following on passage home:

3/Imperial Yeomanry – Major M S Dawson, Captains J B Royle, L E O Charlton, H R Cole-Hamilton, X R Meyer, W Gutch, J S Corbett, C Shears, R Cattley, F Douthwaite, Lieutenants A de A Donisthorpe, R E Sugden, A F Turner, C L Cockell, W Hewetson, A D Ramsay, F N Griffin, M R Wilson, W G L Nantes, A M Hutchins, H C Hall, R L Layton, J Bennett, H M Beckett, E Green, D R Lahiff, G Swainston-Strangways, P B Woodford, D F Christy, and 617 men.







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I've heard of ostriches hiding their heads in the sand but this young lass is taking it to another level.

[No. 7] - Plassy

N.B. As No. 7 was allocated to Jelunga and Ionian, covering the periods 20 Sep 1899 – 22 Mar 1900 and 19 Jun 1902 – 31 Dec 1902, Plassy was sailing as an Indian Troop Service ship when photographed with No. 7 plates.

P. & O. Steam Navigation Co.

Master: C.F. Preston
Chief Officer: A.W. Anderson
Chief Engineer: R. Williamson
2nd Officer: R.M. Best
Supernumerary 2nd Officer: C.A.R. Young
3rd Officer: R.H. Griffin
2nd Engineer: G.R. Robertson / G.W. Smith
3rd Engineer: R.G. McLaren
Surgeon: J.G. McLannahan / W. Meade


Admiralty Return, 13 Aug 1903

Date of Admiralty agreement: taken over from Indian Troop Service
103rd Transport to be engaged by the Admiralty

First period of engagement: 3 Dec 1901 to 14 Feb 1902
Second period of engagement: 22 Apr 1902 to 10 Sep 1902

Total days at sea: 119
Total numbers transported to South Africa: 116 officers, 28 warrant officers, 2,276 men
Total numbers transported from South Africa: 229 officers, 4,010 N.C.O.'s & men, 4 women & children, 12 horses
Total cost (hire, fittings, coal and port dues): £69,470




Photograph of Plassy with "No 7" plates, dated 16 December 1901, taken during the 2-year period between engagements for the conveyance of troops to South Africa.












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S.S. Kanzler

German East Africa Line

The ship that conveyed the personnel of the Russo-Dutch Hospital from Amsterdam (and Naples) to Lourenco Marques. The Dutch contingent left Amsterdam on 23 Dec 1899 and entered Delagoa Bay on 3 Feb 1900.


Sophia Izedinova (1903 & 1977), p. 13

"[At Lourenco Marques] we remained aboard the Kanzler, while formalities with the Portuguese authorities and also the Dutch and Russian consulates were being completed. For us members of an ambulance sent by one of the great European powers and protected by the international Red Cross, these formalities were soon got through. But private persons lacking official support and suspected, not without reason, of being volunteers, were confronted by the Portuguese in deference to the British with unexpected and trivial obstacles. One of these was the demand for payments on various pretexts, some more convincing than others. We sisters, of course, were spared all this bother and after three days we were ready to embark upon the final stage of our long journey".


Cape Times Weekly Edition, 18 Oct 99

Lourenco Marques, Oct 10. H M S Philomel is waiting to intercept the German liner Kanzler looking for ammo.








Members of the Russo-Dutch Ambulance on board the Kanzler.







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