Zulu.Lieutenant John Chard: What's our strength? Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Seven officers including surgeon, commissaries and so on; Adendorff now I suppose; wounded and sick 36, fit for duty 97 and about 40 native levies. Not much of an army for you.
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Picked up a really tatty volume of the BOP yesterday to find this glorious fold out chromolithograph in it by Richard Simkin. Temporary clingfilm just to protect. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Steve
free1954
Posts : 173 Join date : 2012-02-16 Location : northeast usa
Subject: Re: Boy's Own Paper Thu Jul 13, 2017 11:11 am
nice find. how big is it?
John Young
Posts : 1981 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 63 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: Boy's Own Paper Thu Jul 13, 2017 11:47 am
Free1954,
Not a real answer but can I inject some Monty Python humour here: That's a rather personal question isn't it.
Sorry,
JY
free1954
Posts : 173 Join date : 2012-02-16 Location : northeast usa
Subject: Re: Boy's Own Paper Thu Jul 13, 2017 11:57 am
for point of reference to both, maybe you can post a picture of it next to the print.
monty python, unfortunately they don't have humor like that anymore.
rusteze
Posts : 2881 Join date : 2010-06-02
Subject: Re: Boy's Own Paper Thu Jul 13, 2017 1:08 pm
73cms x 30cms and you should see the size of the chromo!