An interesting eight-page letter from 96 Trooper Henry Ernest Cooke, Victorian Mounted Rifles, Maitland Camp [Cape Town], 22 June 1900, complete with the original OAS cover
The letter comes 'From No. 96 VMR on active Service South Africa', and is addressed to his cousin, Miss E. Kirwood (Eva) in Glenferrie, Victoria. After he deals at length with the squabbles over the fate of some stamps he had sent, he explains in even greater detail what occurred..... More