Informal portrait of Major Herbert John Rose, smoking a pipe, outside his tent, an unidentified ...

Accession Number A05403
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Place made South Africa
Date made c 1900
Conflict South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Sudan, 1885
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of Major Herbert John Rose, smoking a pipe, outside his tent, an unidentified servant boy is sitting next to him on the ground. Reverend Rose, a Church of England chaplain, went to the Sudan and Boer Wars. He embarked for the Sudan in March 1885 and returned in June 1885. He went to South Africa as a chaplain with the Second Contingent, Australian Horse; and was attached to the South African Field Force.

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