Fourth letter of Oct 23 1900 from Jugersfontein
Copy of the fourth letter from Pte Alexander Murrary to his brother-in-law David dated Oct 1900. This four page letter has an address location as Jugersfontein to which the battalion had moved at short notice, by train from Bloemfontein to "Edinburg" followed by a 36 mile march. They were welcomed in this village by "a good many English men" working the local diamond mines and thereafter "we have started blowing up there[sic] houses, that is all the Boers houses". This action caused the Boer women to fight, "one bitch shot one of our men with a revolver she came at his back and kicked him over". As a closing remark Alick comments: "I suppose you would be thinking the war was over but it does not look very like it just now".
[A pdf file with the same object number provides a typed transcipt of this letter]
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