Image:Burnham 1902 loc collection.jpg

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CALL NUMBER: LC-B2- 1148-2[P&P] MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [no date recorded on caption card] NOTES: Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. FORMAT: Glass negatives. DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original neg.) ggbain 05789 CARD #: ggb2004005789

TITLE: Major F.R. Burnham (Frederick Russell Burnham) CALL NUMBER: LC-B2- 1148-2[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-05789 (digital file from original neg.) No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [no date recorded on caption card] NOTES: Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. FORMAT: Glass negatives. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original neg.) ggbain 05789 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.05789 CARD #: ggb2004005789

Photograph taken in London on the day Burnham received from King Edward VII the cross of the Distinguished Service Order, second highest decoration in the British Army, for his heroism during the "victorious" March to Pretoria (2-5 June 1900), during the Second Boer War. Burnham's two other medals shown in photo: the Queen's South Africa Medal with four bars (Driefontein (10 Mar 1900); Johannesburg (31 May 1900); Paardeberg (17-26 Feb 1900); Cape Colony (11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902); and the British South Africa Company Medal, earned in the First Matabele War.
Cite: Davis, Richard Harding (1906). Real Soldiers of Fortune, 192, Charles Scribner's Sons. ASIN B000KIR906.

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• Frederick Russell Burnham