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Johannesburg Fire BRIGADE 8 years 2 months ago #55111

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Does anyone have any information on the above before or during the Boer War?

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Johannesburg Fire BRIGADE 8 years 2 months ago #55121

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My page is looking particularly bereft

www.angloboerwar.com/unit-information/so...an-units/2965-joh-fb
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Bit of a long shot. J Barnett & Co. produced a postcard of them, year unknown.

299 - Members of the Joh Fire Brigade.
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A belt buckle

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From the Sallo Epstein postcard collection

2553 THE JOHANNESBURG FIRE BRIGADE
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'Expelled from the Rand' by T Froes in 1899 says:

The members of the Johannesburg Fire Brigade were discharged en bloc.; they were of British nationality to a man, and that, of course, was sufficient.
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