Inventarnummer
200302.4.2
Titel
Majenta Hankie
Beschreibung
Handkerchief, torn in two and knotted together in the centre. Stored in the blue gauze lined envelope (Army Form A.14) Certificates of Discharged Soldiers, Army Reserve Men, and Discharged Militiamen for Sapper F Hasted's career, with a hand written note "Is a souvenir from the African (Boer) War. This hankie saved a train load of our British soldiers by my husband who tore it in half also knotted it to make it longer". The family believe that Hasted used the handkerchief to warn the approaching train of a mine on the track.
Datum
1899 - 1902
Entstehungszeitraum
Boer War, 1899-1902
Format
- Hankie 815 mm
- Width: 175 mm
- Envelope 128 mm
- Width: 100 mm