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Description: | The City livery companies, merchants, individuals and the Corporation of London sponsored the City Imperial Volunteers who had come from Australia, New Zealand and Canada to help the British forces. The finance fund, which reached ��120,000, bought everything from horses to weaponry, tents and uniforms.
Each volunteer was issued with a 'wide awake' hat, khaki uniform, puttees (cloth to wind around the lower leg) and a dark leather belt. As the war dragged on and supplies grew scarce, the Boers stole British army uniforms, causing great confusion. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | Power and Politics | Temporal: | 1880-1902 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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