2-716-549 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Transvaal War,1899-1901: The Bluejackets Saving a Gun', (1901). Episode during the First Boer War: British sailors pulling artillery with oxen. 'Blue jacket' was a term for a junior enlisted sailor in a navy. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]