[Boer War]

Queensland Troops for the Transvaal ... Return [for] ... Copies of all Correspondence, Documents, Papers and Government Gazette Notices relating to the Proposal to send a Number of Members of the Queensland Defence Force to the Transvaal

Brisbane, Government Printer, 1899.

Foolscap folio, 16 (last blank) pages.

Stapled as issued; trifling blemishes near the staples but essentially a fine copy.

Queensland Parliamentary Paper A 35-1899. A comprehensive document with details of the troops proposed to be sent and the nature of their engagement in the war. Offered with five similar and related papers of the same year: 1. Approval by Legislative Assembly of Proposal to Despatch a Force of Volunteers for Service in South Africa (Telegram from Secretary of State respecting). Legislative Assembly Paper A 41-1899 (1 page). 2. Proposed United Australian Contingent for the Transvaal (Report of Conference of Commandants concerning). Paper CA 90-1899 (4 pages). 3. Queensland Troops of the Transvaal (Further Correspondence respecting). Paper CA 106-1899 (2 pages). 4. Proposed Despatch of Additional Australian Troops to South Africa (Correspondence respecting). Paper CA 119-1899 (1 page). 5. Despatch of Additional Troops to South Africa (Further Correspondence respecting). Paper CA 124-1899 (1 page). Papers A 35, CA 90 and CA 106 are not in Fielding and O'Neill; for A 41, see page 119; for CA 119 and CA 124, see page 120.

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