Chocolate bar given to troops during the Boer War is found untouched in a helmet case 121 years later

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Chocolate bar given to troops during the Boer War is found untouched in a helmet case 121 years later

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"Chocolate bar given to troops during the Boer War is found untouched in a helmet case 121 years later"

Bit of a personal connection this one, Harry Greagsbey my Great Great Uncle served with RMLI in the Boer war and fell in at Graspan in 1899...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... uched.html
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Re: Chocolate bar given to troops during the Boer War is found untouched in a helmet case 121 years later

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And again...

"Oxburgh Hall: Queen Victoria's Boer War chocolate found in attic"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... 3=BBC+News
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