Lantern slide of soldiers. Labelled Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table Bay. From the poem by Rudyard Kipling - An Absent Minded Beggar. Partially hand coloured
Lantern slide of illustration from The Absent Minded Beggar. "The Absent-Minded Beggar" is an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling, set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and often accompanied by an illustration of a wounded but defiant British soldier, "A…