Siege notes in mint condition sold in Bury St Edmunds
Today Robert Baden-Powell is best known as the founder of the Boy Scout movement in 1908, but in the Edwardian era his name was synonymous with the Boer War, and specifically the 217 wretched days from October 1899 to May 1900.
The resistance of the town of Mafeking, an overnight stop on the vital rail link between the Cape Co…