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armament accessory: carriage, field
armament accessory: carriage, field gun
armament t&e, artillery: gun, breech-loading (naval)
armament t&e, artillery: gun, quick-firer
armament t&e, artillery: model, field gun
armament t&e, artillery: model, gun
Drawing
Emergency rations
Field Gun
Field gun model
food service t&e: rations: rations, emergency
Gun model
Gun model; Field Gun
medal, British: campaign medal: Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902
Ordnance model
Ordnance model; Gun model
Ordnance modelGun model
personal symbol: badge
Pocket compass
presentation artifact: tobacco box, Lloyd's
Puff adder
Sectional model
Sectional model; Gun model
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket
Tobacco box
War medal
Watch
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, 1st class protected (HMS)
water transport: model, design: sectional model(decked: equipped: working)
water transport component: midship: deck
zoological specimen: adder, puff
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boxwood
brass
coating: lacquer
glass
grey wash
metal: brass
metal: silver
metal: silver-gilt
metal: steel
organic: skin
organic: textile [ribbon]
paint
paper
silver
varnish
wood
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H & A
Harmon, T de
R. & A.
Saulles, George William de
S Smith & Sons
Unknown
West
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HMS Terrible
HMS Terrible,
London
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Second Boer War: Battle of Ladysmith, 1899
Second Boer War: Belmont, 1899
Second Boer War: Cape Colony, 1901-1902
Second Boer War: Modder River, 1899
Second Boer War: Orange Free State, 1899-1901
Second Boer War: Paardeberg, 1900
Second Boer War: Relief of Kimberley, 1899-1900
Second Boer War: Rhodesia, 1899-1900
Second Boer War: Tugela Heights, 1900
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Brednall, Surg-Capt
Costa, Michael
Fegan, J
Gladding, George William
Limpus, Arthur Henry
MacDonnel, A.
Natal Naval Volunteers
Queen Victoria
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Royal United Service Institution
Scott, Percy
The Corporation of Lloyd's
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Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902 (War medal)
Bluejackets in the Trenches outside Ladysmith, 23 Dec 1899 (Drawing)
Tobacco box
Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902 (War medal)
Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902 (War medal)
Emergency rations tin (Emergency rations)
Puff adder (Puff adder)
HMS Terrible breech-loading gun (Gun model; Field Gun)
HMS Terrible breech-loading gun (Sectional model; Gun model)
HMS Terrible breech-loading gun (Gun model; Field Gun)
Pocket compass
Watch
Ordnance model; Gun model
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