15 HOWICK 'LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM' COPYRIGHTED PHOTOGRAPHS - NATAL MILITARY UNITS PRE ANGLO-ZULU WAR

This lot comprises a scarce collection of copyrighted photographs from the Howick 'Local History Museum', reproduced from the original archived material before its destruction when the museum was partially destroyed by a fire in 2013. As such, these are amongst the last few (never to be reproduced from the originals again), remnants of a very important historical archive that has sadly been lost forever. Every photograph bears the museum's copyright rubber stamp on the verso with an accompanying handwritten description.

The Howick Local history museum has subsequently re opened it doors, though much of its content is now on loan from the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.

Handwritten descriptions are as follows;

1) The Escourts, consisting of Natal Volunteers, Carbaneers and Durban Volunteer Artillery on occassion of Coronation of Cetewayo, by Theo Shepstone

2) Durban Volunteer Field Artillery 1878

3) Officers of the Durban Mounted Rifles (Right hand seated Officer Natal Carbineers)

4) Capt Bartons 4th Battalion of the N.N.C. armed with Martini-Henrys

5) Natal Carbineers, 1865. Trooper J.Mclean, Tpr J.Buchanan, Cpl. A.Mclean, Sgt. T. Maxwell,       Tpr. W.Bell, Tpr. J.Fannin, Tpr. M.Stuart, Tpr. Albert Allison, JR.

6) Natal Carbineers. Lieut. F.J.D. Scott (standing right) killed at Isandlwana. 22/1/1879

7) Dress uniform. Durban Royal Rifles. J.H.S. Rapson. About 1875. Durban Mounted Rifles Circa 1885.

8) Fort Napier 1879

9) Group of Durban Volunteer Artillery taken at the time of Coronation of Cetewayo. (photo image as no.8 above but less exposure and slightly tighter cropping)

10) Karkloof Carbaneers 1867

11) NCO's Natal Hussars

12) Natal Frontier Guards C1873. P.M.B. Troops who handed the Langalibalele.

13) Durban Mounted Rifles. Capt. Shepstone

14) Durban Rifle Guard

15) Robert Jameson. Quartermaster. Durban Mounted Rifles 1876.